According to the accompanying card, that is a coin from 2nd to 4th century AD! This was a wonderful gift from author Michelle Moran for hosting a giveaway for her books The Heretic Queen and Cleopatra's Daughter, and I couldn't be happier or more surprised to receive it.
The 2nd to 4th centuries. 100-400 AD. The early days of Christianity. The days of Pliny the Younger and Ptolemy. Jonah is swallowed by the whale in this era. The days and decline of the Roman Empire. This coin is over 1500 years old! Can you wrap your mind around that?I love "old things". So you can imagine how excited I am to have a coin from the early days of the first millennium. A coin that just missed sharing the earth with Christ by a mere few hundred years. A coin that could have sat in the hand of Ptolemy, or shared the sea with Jonah. Maybe it was lost at sea after being newly minted, and was never touched by anyone but the minters and the salvagers. But can you wrap your mind around the antiquity of this tiny little coin? It baffles the mind!
Michelle Moran-- thank you, thank you, thank you! I got such a kick out of receiving this coin in the mail. Learn more about Michelle's books here!
On a sidenote: I am reading Michelle's book The Heretic Queen right now, and I promise you that I have been in no way influenced by the coin when I say that I am loving the book! I love the ease of her descriptive writing style, which paints pictures in my mind of the scenes being played out. The coin just helps pull me even closer into the time period in which the story is staged.
Thanks so much, Michelle!
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6 comments:
I recently won Cleopatra's Daughter and I'm very impatiently waiting for it to arrive! Happy reading....
I think she is a very thoughtful author and she made a connection with you. I love her gift too!! I won Cleopatra's Daughter and she autographed my copy...can't wait to experience her writing!
Ha...you are probably thinking I'm a total dumba&@!! I feel like one. I won Cleopatra's Daughter from you!! I'm such a loser sometimes!! I just realized this because I'm doing my Mailbox Monday and looked back in my emails and realized I won my copy from Heather-which is you!! LOL!! I'm losing my mind!
LOL! Not at all, Staci! If I can't keep straight who won the giveaways, why should you be able to remember from whom you won the books?
That is so very cool! I have read and reviewed Cleopatra's Daughter (LOVED IT!) but have not had the pleasure yet to read Heretic Queen. I want to though! Badly!
Very cool! That was so nice of her. Makes me want to read her books.
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