In response to: Princeton Houses the World’s Largest Trove of Byzantine Coins
Current issue
November 2024
Princetonians lead think tanks; the perfect football season of 1964; Nobel in physics.
It was over 50 years ago that the preceptor opened what looked like the container from a safe deposit box and handed out silver coins minted by the successors to Alexander shortly after his death that we could actually touch. I don’t know how much it added to my education, but I will never forget holding those concrete tokens of ancient history.