It sometimes fills me with awe that artifacts like the Eid Mar coins, born out of a history defining moment without equal, two millennia ago, not only persist b

It sometimes fills me with awe that artifacts like the Eid Mar coins, born out of a history defining moment without equal, two millennia ago, not only persist but can be viewed by the public for a paltry sum. There's just a certain enchantment in having that history and its attendant mythology embodied in a physical object.