The coin you see here is from Alexandria. It is a Ptolemaic coin, before Cleopatra. I wonder, with the current talk about currencies (be they up or down), if we might return to coinage.
I will admit that I miss having marks, guilders and francs; it was so easy to have some of each--just in case one decided to take a train that crossed 2 or more borders. I am not suggesting a return to those days, however.
But it is nice to hold in your hand something that isn't paper. Can you imagine if the Greco-Roman world had money made from papyrus? Doesn't it sound outlandish?
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