Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gorgeous! And as on a scale of one to 100 my interested coins is 1 while my interest in photography is 100 and this is a photography list may I ask HOW you photographed it? On 12/16/12 5:15 PM, "John D. Nebel" <john.nebel at csdco.com> wrote: > <http://photos.csd.net/croesus_stater.html> > > mouse over the image to view the reverse, click on the image for a > enlargement > > The coin is 16.6 mm diameter, 8 gm mass, struck in the 6th century BC > > According to Herodotus, the Lydians were the first people to strike > coins of silver and of gold. This coin is not quite the first issue of > gold coins, by one brief preceding issue. > > Croesus was undecided about whether or not to go to war with the > Persians as their king Cyrus was becoming a threat. As a test, he sent > an envoy to each of the known oracles instructing the envoys on a > certain date to all ask the same question, what he was doing at that > time. The envoys did not know the answer, so this was a good test. The > Delphic oracle and one other answered correctly, that Croesus was making > turtle and lamb soup in a bronze cauldron. He bestowed lavish gifts on > the successful oracles and then had asked the important question, > whether or not he should go to war with Cyrus. The answer was that a > great kingdom would fall if he did. He did go to war and a great > kingdom fell, however, one must be careful of the phrasing of questions > to oracles, and how to interpret their pronouncements. > > comments, etc welcome. > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/