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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2956236, member: 10461&quot;]This is an excellent point.&nbsp; But of course we with our 21st century attitudes can never fully understand those of our 1st, 2nd, 3rd century predecessors.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m certainly glad to live in the time I do, and despite my distaste for some of today&#039;s world leaders, I&#039;d prefer to live under almost any of them (the constitutional ones, anyway) than under the absolute rule of any Roman or other ancient emperors or kings.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s sure nice to live in a reasonably safe Western democracy at the dawn of the third millennium AD, and have the luxury of collecting and enjoying coins from darker days, and imagining what that must have been like.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s face it; from a dramatic standpoint, conflict and tyranny, villainy and strife, are far more interesting to <i>think</i> about than stability and harmony.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best to LIVE in relatively peaceful, stable times and READ about the darker, more dangerous ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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