I think we’re at a bit of a transitional point as physical currency is falling and electronic recordkeeping is growing,” ...
Like several forms of expression, booing originated in Ancient Greece in the theater, as a means to express dissatisfaction ...
The year is 1821, and the Park Theatre, run by an impresario named Stephen Price, shuts down the Grove’s production twice, ...
But Trump’s coin is nothing new. In a pre-social media world, coins were the ultimate propaganda tool. Rulers used them to advertise themselves and their achievements and any messaging they wanted to ...
A lot was at stake. Price had recruited famed actor Junius Brutus Booth, father of future Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, to play Richard III. The action then flashes back to a few days ...
Caesar was assassinated just one month later on the Ides of March. Marcus Junius Brutus celebrated the event with one of the most famous coins in history bearing his own bust and name on the obverse.
But Marcus Junius Brutus still chose to put his own likeness on a coin after leading the conspiracy to kill the politician. It then became regular practice for Roman coins, and as monetary systems ...