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"Freedom" for Thessalians in 196 BC
This article was originally issued in July 2021, as we celebrated the 4th, in the United States, and the American Declaration of...
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- May 11
- 4 min
Gold Rush
While this post will start in "modern" times with a "modern" coin, I will ask the reader's patience...eventually it will go back to...
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- Aug 1, 2021
- 4 min
Cato the Younger
The history of the Roman Republic has no shortage of dramatic figures and events, and yet the story of Cato the Younger (Cato Minor)...
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- Feb 27, 2021
- 4 min
Of Sulla and Apollo
Marius and Sulla tore at the fabric of the Roman republic with their personal ambitions which led to civil wars for the Roman Republic in...
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- Feb 11, 2021
- 4 min
Governments of Men and Laws
With this post, I return to the Roman Republic, with a coin from Lucius Cornelius Sulla. This denarius is from Sulla's dictatorship,...
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- Sep 19, 2020
- 4 min
Father of the Country
"Whenever you desire to cheer yourself, think upon the merits of those who are alive with you; the energy of one, for instance, the...
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- Sep 7, 2020
- 4 min
Make Haste Slowly
The coin I write about today starts with a symbol that take on new meaning as we move from this mosaic in the Trident House in Delos,...
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- Sep 6, 2020
- 4 min
From Lycia to the US Constitution
On 21-Feb-1787, The provisional government of the United States, established under the Articles of Confederation, agreed to a resolution...
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- Jul 4, 2019
- 2 min
An Ancient Coin for Independence Day
On July 4th, 1776 the Continental Congress "...in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and...
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