visiting Azerbaijan

[leannecassie_27]

A little while ago, I learned that I am in fact going to visit in Azerbaijan. I can't describe how happy or excited I am. I haven't seen my native country in a long time, and I am going to see as much as I can, and visit all of my friends and some of my relatives. My mother is coming with me too, which will make the trip more fun, and she might

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[beshter]

They are nice to have, though only some are highly valuable. Mine are not, but I think I might do something with them, if I could think of a creative way of doing it without hurting the coins. Like earrings, LOL.

I'd go with you! We'd have fun! LOL I'm clueless in foreign countries, but always respectful.

[leannecassie_27]

i dont think mine are too valuable either. i wanted to restore my coins, or clean them, but dad said that would destroy them. making coins into earrings is a great idea. except i dont like having my ears pierced. next time, ill take you. and im not worried about your manners at all. youre one of the nicest people ive ever met. hey, would you like to have some pictures that i'll take when im visiting Azerbaijan? i just thought youd like to see what some of my countrys sights are, and since your birthday is coming up, i was thinking it would make a nice present for you.

[beshter]

I would love that, thank you! That would be brilliant, hon!

Yes, don't try to clean your coins, that destroys their value. Leave them as is, with the patina on them, else that potentially harms them, and it also makes it hard to date them with any precision.

I do have pierced ears, had them since I was twelve or so. Normally I wear a pair of diamond studs in them as they are small enough to wear everyday, but nice enough to wear out if I go out. But if I could find a way to do something with the coins that wouldn't injure them, that would be great. Though I'd be worried I'd lose one! Admittedly though, they aren't as valuable as the earrings I wear everyday, but they are valuable to me personally.

[leannecassie_27]

i never had my ears pierced, im just too scared to. my ancient coins are really valuable to me, simply for the history they contain. and your welcome. ill take as many pictures as i can. and if you'd like, i could also send you some pictures of England too. :)

[beshter]

I'd adore pictures of England as well.

It's not bad getting your ears pierced, you don't even noticed. I sure didn't.

[leannecassie_27]

okay, ill get some for you! :) youre probably right, i dont think it would hurt too much, its just that the image of someone sticking a needle into my ears is very scary, to me.

[beshter]

I a gun used on mine, it just punches the earrings in like a staple gun would. Hardly hurt. I used to have two holes in my lobes and one in my cartilage. Now I just have the one in my lobes.

[wytchcroft]

my piercings never hurt a bit - i used to have two in my left ear, but i got lazy and they sealed up eventually.

Roman coins - wow, i was just talkign about this again with a friend the other day; we were reminiscing aabout a plan we had to trace the lost legion of the ninth. i never bought the 'disappeared into the fog and got killed by picts' cover story. We were going to track tthem back to Gaul and the political scene there - but alas, our biggest asset in the hunt, an expert coin collector, passed away suddenly.

They actually found some Septimus Severus coins a couple of years ago in the south of England, still the rarest coins I believe. They were buried deliberately - probably to hide a previous loyalty.

[beshter]

I'd say they were buried to hide their treasure. OFten people would bury their coins and other wealth during times of trouble in the hopes that they would one day come back to them when the troubled died down. This is why we find so many coins buried randomly now at days.

Septimius Severus is one of the rarer coins to find, given that the Time of Troubles was right after that. Probably not many of their coins circulated because so many people were hoarding and hiding their wealth in the hopes that everything would calm down again soon, (which it didn't, really, until Diocletian).

It's possible the 9th got lost in the political confusion in Gaul at the time. I never studied much on the 9th, so I don't know the legends about them, (besides the fact they disappeared).

[leannecassie_27]

oops. i meant the method that you described, beshter, when some one pierced your ears, was easy. are you guys referring to the battle of Teutoburg Forest? the site of the battle happened very near Osnabruck, Germany. there was a military road near a region called Kalkriese, which had a field that contained a lot of Roman coins. soon archielogists were able to find the sight, which was located to the south of Kalkrieseneburg, and they were able to find military items such as Rpman helmets of the first century a.d.. it is said that a German captive that was supposedly romanized by the name of Arminious gave the Roman governor Varus false reports to him because he was still loyal to Germany. Varus was tricked into thinking there was a rebellion, when there was none. the german forces attacked the roman legions unaware, and slaughtered the romans. i got all of this information in an archaeology book. it doesnt suprise me that there were Septimus Severus coins found in southern England. after all, Rome contolled extended all the way to

[wytchcroft]

LOL! i should have waited to reply, you got it covered:))

[wytchcroft]

What's interesting about the coins is how far they were from the capital Eboracum (York) in the North of England.

As for the ninth - originally from Gaul they were actually the Sardakar of the Empire, they went to hotspots and acted like the SAS meets the Knnights Templer (which they a sort of proto version of in some respects). They could have slipped away from the wall (which was something of a demotion posting) sold their skills to the Picts for passage to France from scotland.
The cover story of course is that theywere killed in battle. Ok, entire LEGION. Also, still the only battle in the history of mankind to have NO survivors, no witnesses and no evidence whatsoever, not even a helmet.

[leannecassie_27]

oh, that sounds simple and easy.