Popkiewicz believes these coins may have belonged to the [Axis] soldier, possibly a numismatics enthusiast, as they hail from several countries the [Wehrmacht’s] 73rd Infantry Division likely traversed, to which the soldier may have belonged. The hypothesis suggests that the soldier collected ancient coins as a hobby or perhaps exchanged or acquired them during his military movements.
The Fascists did fetishize ancient European civilizations, so this is a very reasonable hypothesis.
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I still prefer to think the Red Army killed this fucking Nazi so hard they literally sent his ass back to the Stone Age.
That’s where the saying comes from, according to some scholars.
