2007-03-28 08:20:09 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
He says it's from 46 BC, he didn't say that it had 46 BC written on it... so he could be telling the truth... maybe they used precise carbon dating to place it at around 46 BC, you don't know...
so something else is telling you that he's lying. I think it's that manic twitching of the eyelid he gets sometimes, it's a dead giveaway....
2007-03-28 08:29:46 · answer #1 · answered by Buzzard 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how do you know he wasn't, okay all these answers are absurd. BCE is before christ but it also means before common era, if this was in america you know he is lying because only indians inhabited north america in 46 bc, the only possible explination is it was a mayan coin and you were in texas or new mexico if there was some sort of mayan invasion in the area, or you are in europe and found maybe ancient grecian money, but the point is that he probably is however, the fall of the mayan empire was around that time so that possibillity is almost eliminated. Or, he could have created the coin himself using special chemicals that un intentionally speed up the decay and rust process by alot. The point is he is indeed lying because such metal would have decayed or been lost.
2007-03-28 15:31:27 · answer #2 · answered by The Chairman Of Jazzy Films 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The questioner never states that the coin is _labeled_ 46BC, just that it's from 46BC. And since, yes, they did have coins and the concept of money back then, that is perfectly possible.
I suspect the questioner intended to post a brain-teaser, screwed it up, and yet, since it's such an old chestnut that apparently everyone already knows the answer to, everyone jumped on the 46BC without any in-question justification.
Fascinating. So many people taking so little time to make sure they understand or are understood.
2007-03-28 15:32:46 · answer #3 · answered by stmichaeldet 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually, coins have been used since 700BC, by the Lydians.
Your brother may be right, if he lives in Western Europe.
2007-03-28 15:26:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
well you have to look at where you are in the world, and second, is he educated enough to make claim.
I think it's funny how everyone thinks your brother said the "BC" was written on the coin itself.
2007-03-28 23:35:26 · answer #5 · answered by Jaroo 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Before the birth of Jesus no one knew he was going to be born, so coins wouldn't have had 'BC' on them.
They would have used a different dating system.
2007-03-28 15:25:35 · answer #6 · answered by Sky 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In 46bc they did not know about the future birth of Christ so they would not have known it was 46bc, so they would not have put this date on any coins.
2007-03-28 15:29:29 · answer #7 · answered by Chris H 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One clue would be that if it has a US president's face on it, it probably wasn't from 46BC. Actually most of the above answers are correct in that people who lived in the BC era didn't know they were i the BC era.
2007-03-28 16:59:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He could easily have found a coin that old but how could it have BC on it, he hadn't arrived.
2007-03-28 16:26:29 · answer #9 · answered by Cowboy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it was not a coin from 46BC. that was a nut washer which was lost by some one who had a flat tire in 46BC!
probably Honda's!
2007-03-28 15:32:10 · answer #10 · answered by randomX1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋