Good Morning Everyone!
It’s a fine day here in Ancient Rome, where I am taking my ease in the World’s Capital and trying to figure out what the world’s new money is going to look like. In your world you have it easy; it doesn’t matter what currency you are in, you just rattle on the computer and - BOOM! - you can convert Everything from rubles to rupees into Euros, USD or even rusbucknicks! Back here in the ancient world... trying to trade in coin turns into a chit show!
I shall call it “The Sistercian”!
On one side is a picture of me with serious bed head after
a bender, and on the other: a likeness of me
guzzling an amphora of wine with all my junk hanging out!
Eh? Eh?!?
Feast your eyes!
Can you imagine trying to trade money in this setting? Not only does our coin change from tyrant to tyrant - half the time the measures do too! You may have Standard American units of measurement for weight, volume, length, pressure, etc etc... but here it changes from village to village. Any kind of precision trading is almost impossible.
Hey Quartermain! What does a Mycenaean get when he walks
into a wall with a hard on?
A nose bleed! HAR HAR HAR!
Look at the beak on this dude!
HAR HAR HAR!
😆👍
That guy looks like either a Scot or a Jew.
I bet that coin squeaks when ya try to spend it!!!
HAR HAR HAR!
That one’s not bad. None of these coins
are round. I wonder if it was the way they were
struck, or if it is just wear from being passed through so many hands...?
There’s another fella that walked into the wall...
Of course, these coins are worth many times what they were when the moneyers first struck them. I was watching an old crockumentary about that guy that used to own the LA Kings. He was so rich, he was like a modern day Caesar. He had just bought Wayne Gretzky, at the height of his career - to play for his team out of pocket change. He also was one of four people to have a complete collection of Ancient Roman coins. The rarest coin was an unremarkable, scabby little thing a bit smaller than a dime... and there were only four of them in the world. It was worth millions. In my next life... maybe I will collect these too, and study up on the times and the people that used them.
As for you - have a good weekend, and spend your money wisely...😊