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To: TobagoJack who wrote (66051)9/14/2010 12:43:27 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 218919
 
A really beautiful coin.

I am now at appx. 45% of net worth in gold or miners.

Scary, exhilirating.....love it.

Today may mark the breakout.



To: TobagoJack who wrote (66051)9/14/2010 3:48:05 PM
From: energyplay  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 218919
 
Scroll WAY down in the Wikipedia Carthage article for a picture of a similar coin that is not as nice as yours.

en.wikipedia.org

Cato the Censor AKA Cato the Elder argued for the destruction of Carthage.

I have a friend, a student of history, who occasionally points out that "there are no Carthaginians [today] "

from Wikipedia -

Carthago delenda est (English: "Carthage must be destroyed") or the fuller Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam or also Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam (English: "Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed") are Latin political phrases which were popular in the Roman Republic during the latter years of the Punic Wars against Carthage. The city was indeed finally razed by the Romans after the Battle of Carthage in 146 BCE, and its entire remaining population sold into slavery.

en.wikipedia.org

The attitude of total warfare toward Carthage resulted in the utter destruction of the city at the end of the Third Punic War and the surviving inhabitants were sold into slavery. The modern legend that the city was sown with salt reflects the perceived savagery of destruction.

The term is sometimes adapted in modern usage, in a learned reference to total warfare,[2] and has been used as the title for Alan Wilkins' 2007 play on the Third Punic War.[3] Another modern use of 'Ceterum censeo …' is, similar to Cato's repetitive insistence, creating a reference to a strongly held conviction to be right about a topic, like Cato the Elder considered himself right about the necessity of Carthage's destruction