Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
> Not really, but I do have an undated silver coin from the
> Greece/Macedon area with the face of Alexander the Great from about
> 330 B.C. The back is messed up due to fusing with other coins lying
> in a tomb for 2000 years. I love the idea that people touched it,
> carried it around and used it so long ago. Maybe used it to buy wine
> for a party. It sort of telescopes time. I suppose I am basically a
> romantic.
> --
> Winsor Crosby
> Long Beach, California
For me one of the cool things about coin collecting is that it
facilitates mental time travel!
-Nick T.
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