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Imagine holding something 1,800 years old in your hand.
This bronze coin was struck under Roman Emperor Philip I between 244 and 249 AD. On the back? The Temple of Jupiter at Heliopolis, which is what we now call Baalbek in Lebanon. One of the most jaw dropping monuments the ancient world ever built, immortalized on a coin small enough to fit in your palm.
This is what real history looks like. Not in a textbook. Not behind museum glass. Right in your hands.