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It appears they did it because
a) They could
b) It was easily distributed advertising material
c) It was convenient to pay mercenaries
The talk was given by the delightful and extremely old Associate Professor John Melville Jones who passed on a wealth of information about creation, composition, ornamentation and distribution. He ended his talk by showing us images of his favourite coins ‘because they are the most beautiful’.
a) They could
b) It was easily distributed advertising material
c) It was convenient to pay mercenaries
The talk was given by the delightful and extremely old Associate Professor John Melville Jones who passed on a wealth of information about creation, composition, ornamentation and distribution. He ended his talk by showing us images of his favourite coins ‘because they are the most beautiful’.
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