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[bill from lachine]

Tom,

Battle of the Teutoburg forest.

 

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[Rookster]

Good morning Tnet friends.

 

[bill from lachine]

rook,

Top of the morning to you from the great white north to the deep south....

Good morning Tnet friends.

 

[bill from lachine]

Folks,

Since it's Sunday thought this would be an appropriate song.

Aretha Franklin-Amazing Grace.

 

[Tom_Restorer]

Tom,

Battle of the Teutoburg forest.

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Thanks Buddy!

I only saw all german documentaries yet.

 

[Hillbilly Prince]

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Yes, but nice shaped rocks

Tom, I couldn't resist lol. Those are gorgeous specimens. Something like that always makes me wonder about the people who made them and used them.
Now why are we drawn to these things from the past?
Why do we want to find them and hold them.

 

[Hillbilly Prince]

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Looks like 3 Antoninus Pius right?

Nice!

PS: I collected some roman coins too many years ago but than I thought "This are nothing else as INVADERS who enslaved our people!" so I sold them all

Guess I just mentioned that the Ger-Man (spear man) made a huge mistake 9 A.D. not going to Italy and finish the job...

Calm down Tom You really hold a grudge lol.
Actually, the invasions keep coming. Just different people.

 

[Rookster]

rook,

Top of the morning to you from the great white north to the deep south....

Thanks Bill.
Yea it’s getting cooler here to.The weather report is for party sunny skies and middle of the day temps.of 64. Have a good day.

 

[Hillbilly Prince]

Thanks Bill.
Yea it’s getting cooler here to.The weather report is for party sunny skies and middle of the day temps.of 64. Have a good day.

Hey Rook. What area of Mississippi do you live in? We passed through the state on our way to Alabama years ago.

 

[Hillbilly Prince]

Good morning Tom,

Since I was going after the Viking? arrowhead which you recommended me not to....I went and bought 3 Roman denari via auction instead.....picture to follow......

You had to remind Tom about his arch nemesis
But seriously those look fantastic. Imagine the people who used them!

 

[Tom_Restorer]

 

[bill from lachine]

HBP,

Just to give you an idea of what inflation has done to the value of money over the years. I was told by a dealer specializing in ancient coins that a Roman denari which is what those coins are and equates to 1 dime by today's standards. Well that was 1 day's pay for a Roman legionaire in those days.....

You had to remind Tom about his arch nemesis
But seriously those look fantastic. Imagine the people who used them!

 

[RTR]

This world is FULL of dumb ass's !!!! How hard is it to cut a piece of lumber EXACTLY 20"x44" ? Thanks Home Depot .After a 2 hr. round trip the stinking brain-dead employee is off 1/2" over the length of only 44". I'm so pissed I can't even type.

 

[Oddjob]

Just does not make sense why idiots are allowed to work, but also sell potential weapons of mass moral correctness.

Beat the heck out of him.

 

[Hillbilly Prince]

Just does not make sense why idiots are allowed to work, but also sell potential weapons of mass moral correctness.

Beat the heck out of him.

Maybe cut off exactly 1\2 inch of his finger so he members lol

 

[Hillbilly Prince]

HBP,

Just to give you an idea of what inflation has done to the value of money over the years. I was told by a dealer specializing in ancient coins that a Roman denari which is what those coins are and equates to 1 dime by today's standards. Well that was 1 day's pay for a Roman legionaire in those days.....

Heck of a paycheck to take home If I remember right those old west cowboys got about 10.00 a month.

 

[bill from lachine]

Roger,

Don't know what type of saw he was using but our local hardware store has one of those fancy wall mounted saws and they just set to the length asked and bingo it's done.

This world is FULL of dumb ass's !!!! How hard is it to cut a piece of lumber EXACTLY 20"x44" ? Thanks Home Depot .After a 2 hr. round trip the stinking brain-dead employee is off 1/2" over the length of only 44". I'm so pissed I can't even type.

 

[bill from lachine]

Folks,

I managed a couple more medieval coins today. They're not in the best of condition but I don't mind because I'll be having them mounted in bezels and giving as gifts.

 

[Oddjob]

Roger,

Don't know what type of saw he was using but our local hardware store has one of those fancy wall mounted saws and they just set to the length asked and bingo it's done.

I am a metric sort of person. Standard just makes no sense to me at all, I can convert it in my head on the fly, but standard still makes no sense.

Funny part is all the people who claim down to the inch is far more accurate than down to the millimetre.

 

[bill from lachine]

Oddjob,

I agree we're on the metric system in Canada and because of my age I still do the mental comparison because Imperial was the measure I learned in school as a kid.

Fact is metric is all based on 10, 100 parts, etc....so much easier conversion than imperial for sure.

Just a simple thing like farenheith why is 32f the freezing point and not 0 like the metric measure.....