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Today Tante Fleur took us to her work to show some old Roman coins she was working on. Tante Fleur is a professor in Archaeology at the Frankfurt University (called the Johan Wolfgang Goethe University). She specialises in the study of ancient coins.
Her very big office is inside a very big building, the I.G. Farben Building. It has played many important roles in history since its built in 1930, including being the HQ of the US Army in Europe during the Cold War.

After we got a tray with ancient coins out of the safe at Fleur's work she told me about them all. There were coins that were from the Romans, and coins from the Greeks.

The Roman coins were very different to each other. Some were very thick, while others were thin. One had a bee on it. One was the size of a small button.

The Greek ones were very different. There were not as many as the Roman coins.

There was also a few Egyptian coins as well, but they were Alexandrian.

We then went to see Krijn play his sport game. He plays floorball, a form of indoor hockey.

I had a go after the game. I was not very good.

Krijn then went to a birthday party for his friend while we went to a nearby village where there was a small festival with heritage cars.

In the evening we got ready for the quarter finals of the Euro 2024 football (soccer) between The Netherlands and Türkiye. The Netherlands won and will be facing England next Wednesday in the semi finals!Read more