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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4985159, member: 57495&quot;]For me, it was a realization best summed up in the words of that great Classicist of our times, Iggy Pop:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<i>I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there were others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>I learn much about the way our society really works, because the system-origins - military, religious, political, colonial, agricultural, financial - are all there to be scrutinized in their infancy.&nbsp; I have gained perspective. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>I find out how little I know.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>I urge anyone who wants life on earth to really come alive for them to enjoy the beautiful ancestral ancient world.</i>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>That, and of course, all the cool coinz. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197730[/ATTACH]<b>JULIUS CAESAR</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 3.77g, 19mm. Rome mint, struck by L. Aemilius Buca, February - March 44 BC. Crawford 480/8; Sydenham 1061; RCV 1411.&nbsp; O: CAESAR DICT PERPETVO , wreathed head of Caesar facing right.&nbsp; R: L BVCA , Venus standing left, holding Victory and a sceptre.</p><p><i>Ex David Sellwood Collection; ex Seaby Coin &amp; Medal Bulletin (1 Oct 1977), lot 793 </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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