In 1986, having been married to me
only one year, my wife was casting about for an interesting birthday present.
She wandered into a coin shop and found a case of coins from antiquity. She
already knew me well enough to know that I would be fascinated by them. The
owner didn't know much about the coins, only that they were from Rome, and he
was pretty sure that one of them dated from the time of Christ. That's the one
my wife bought.
She was absolutely right about my
reaction to this gift—I fell in love with this coin the minute I saw it. I
couldn't believe that I was holding something so old in my hands...
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