A friend of mine's step-father used to own a pawnshop. I don't know how long ago he closed it down, but their house was full of stuff from the shop. I spent Thanksgiving with them one year and while I was there some sketchy guys came around to sell him some jewelry and the like. (So, yes. He appears to be a fence) One of the things they tried to sell him was a coin that had a date on it as B.C. and they kept going on about how old it was. He didn't buy it and as soon as he left, I fell over laughing. He didn't understand what I thought was so funny. I tried explaining. He didn't get it. She didn't get it. Nobody understood that there couldn't be a coin minted Before Christ BEFORE CHRIST!
No idea why he didn't buy the coin though, probably didn't think he could make anything off it.
joseph4th on June 17th, 2018 at 09:00 UTC »
A friend of mine's step-father used to own a pawnshop. I don't know how long ago he closed it down, but their house was full of stuff from the shop. I spent Thanksgiving with them one year and while I was there some sketchy guys came around to sell him some jewelry and the like. (So, yes. He appears to be a fence) One of the things they tried to sell him was a coin that had a date on it as B.C. and they kept going on about how old it was. He didn't buy it and as soon as he left, I fell over laughing. He didn't understand what I thought was so funny. I tried explaining. He didn't get it. She didn't get it. Nobody understood that there couldn't be a coin minted Before Christ BEFORE CHRIST!
No idea why he didn't buy the coin though, probably didn't think he could make anything off it.
Wisear on June 17th, 2018 at 09:14 UTC »
For those wondering:
When referring to past years, Romans actually used the ruling political leader of that year as the name of a past year.
Source: https://youtu.be/HLfQBI8XO44?t=1m20s
Samasm on June 17th, 2018 at 09:26 UTC »
They were probably scared shitless that they were constantly counting down to 0 too