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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 92211, member: 57463&quot;]<b>The Event Horizon</b></p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite is this 1/6 stater, a 2.5 gram electrum coin, from the town of Miletus,about 550 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>It represents many things to me.&nbsp; It is one of the earliest known coins.&nbsp; No other coin in any catalog is exactly like this one: it is unique.&nbsp; Also, it came to me by something of a fluke at a coin show and it was misidentified, though I recognized its time and place.&nbsp; Finally, I paid relatively little for it, about the same as you might for a somewhat better Morgan Dollar in a slab, say a &#039;91-O or &#039;04 in better Unc.&nbsp; Most of all, it was struck during the lifetime&nbsp; and in the town of Thales of Miletus, the father of geometry and the father of philosophy. He also is famous for demonstrating the value in philosophy by contracting all of the olive presses in town ahead of the harvest and then leasing them out on his own terms.&nbsp; This coin might have been part of that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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