Posted 02/09/2022 6:10 pm
And also a technical definition: "ancient" doesn't just mean "very old". The Ancient period of history ended some time around the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476. While scholars might debate the exact definition time points of "ancient", "mediaeval" and "modern", a pirate-era coin, although indeed "very old" by human standards, is still generally considered part of the Modern age.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
