#367 Ancient Coins w/ Dean Kinzer
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
It took about ten years, but it looks like our road, like all of them, lead to Rome. Dean Kinzer of Kinzer Coins joins us for a conversation about the role that coins played in the ancient world. He explains how money evolved in ancient Europe, the process through which coins were produced, and how you can see the rise and fall of the Roman empire through the output of their mint.
If you're interested in learning more about ancient coins check out Dean's podcast, The Ancient Coin Hour, or visit Kinzer Coins' website at KinzerCoins.com.
This episode was edited by Ben Sawyer.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the Road to Now. |
| 0:08.4 | Today, we take our first trip back to ancient history ever on the road to now. |
| 0:14.4 | Our guest is Dean Kinzer. |
| 0:16.2 | He is a coin specialist. |
| 0:19.0 | He got into it and has started a business now, but he is an expert on |
| 0:24.8 | ancient coins, Roman and Greek coins. And this is maybe one of the first times ever. We got a |
| 0:31.9 | pitch and I said, I don't know anything about this. I just want to find out more. So it was so much fun, |
| 0:39.1 | just talking about how these coins can tell about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, |
| 0:44.1 | the spread of power in the ancient world, the types of minerals they're using. I learned so |
| 0:50.0 | much in this conversation. And it's just straight up fun. So I hope you enjoy this and have as much |
| 0:55.8 | fun or even half as much fun as I had recording this and I think you'll be glad you listened. |
| 1:02.7 | On a completely different note, I now want to say something about this recent Supreme Court decision |
| 1:08.9 | that is going to allow even more gerrymandering to happen in this country. |
| 1:14.9 | Whatever your partisan view is, whatever your party is, whatever your philosophy on this is, |
| 1:21.5 | please, aren't we sick of this? |
| 1:24.3 | This is diluting democracy in Tennessee. It is diluting democracy in California all over this |
| 1:34.0 | country. Whatever the party that dominates the legislature is just stomping all over people's |
| 1:40.3 | right to really have any representative government. Chances are you feel the same way, |
| 1:44.2 | whatever your party is. But I want to say something right now because I feel like we've been |
| 1:48.9 | wrapped up in the partisan back and forth. There's fights over whether or not, you know, |
| 1:53.9 | you should have racial districts. Let's take all of this out. And I just want to make this |
| 1:59.3 | argument that I feel like is just decent. It just makes sense. |
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