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Greece is minting special version of Euro coins for 2500th anniversary The Battle of Thermopylae.
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Amazing, where can i buy these ? article mentions collectors are able to, can't find any other info.
Meanwhile, the UK is making this shite:
This looks like a window cling you'd see on an old pontiac.
youMeanwhile, the UK is making this shite:
the coin she tells you not to worry about
Okay, who the fuck still believe that shit outside right wing "European heritage" people?
Give them nothingMeanwhile, the UK is making this shite:
But take from them EVERYTHING
To be fair, I'd rather have a coin that talks about the present than one that celebrate a battle fought by people who are long gone and have no direct connection with anyone in the present.
I don't know what the outcome would have been but arguing either side of a big butterfly effect is crazy. If Gavrillo Princip had twisted his ankle that morning we might not have split the atom.
A lot of people, to be honest. 300 basically cemented that narrative.
The phrase on the Brexit 50p coin is taken from the inaugural address of Thomas Jefferson. It's no more related to Brexit than the image of a Spartan helmet is to modern Greece.
i want an alternate history where Carthage won over Rome. Would be interesting.
I don't know the context of the coin. I just thought it was a message that's relevant today.
We do know what would have happened had the Persians won, because you know, they did.
Though honestly, my bigger issue is with this "defenders of reason, science and western civilization" crap that quote was pushing.
By no measure that isn't racist were the Persian empire less civilized or scientifically advanced than Sparta.
The "personal freedom" shit is extra funny since slavery was abolished in the Persian empire but not in Greece at the time.
The Persians burned Athens after it too.
But something something, 300.
Meanwhile, the UK is making this shite:
Should have been holding it in the 'OK' sign
The - certainly fewer - persian soldiers who died at the battle are no more current day iranians than the spartan soldiers are current day greeks. We build these connection with the distant past but that's all they are, something that we build. Something artificial.
Constructed connections can still have very real consequences. I mean, we're in here talking about Greeks leveraging the Spartan legacy as a point of national pride.
Not that it necessarily means that this reflects on modern day Iranians, but people identifying with and relitigating ancient conflicts does happen.
Oh yeah, for sure. The past is often used in service of the present, and personally I think it's more of a shackle than anything. And it can be something much worse.
euro commemorative coin is a good business. Its cheap to invest in (1 and 2 euros per coin) and easy to store and go up in value fast.
Those alabaster skinned ivory hued heroes slowed down Persia enough to allow Jesus to make his escape to London.
lmao, white supremacy at full display here. Imagine being so far up your own ass.
Leonidas crawled so Jesus could walk.
Jesus walked to Kanye could fly.
Kanye flew so he could get a free water bottle.
The unbroken chain of freedom, liberty and western civilization.
