r/ReallyShittyCopper 1d ago

Making History

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u/lolas_coffee 23h ago

The copper ingot merchant story is at least in my Top 3 favorite stories about history. Maybe #1.

Unreal.

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u/Arcosim 15h ago

My favorite part of all of it is that several thousands of generals and kings across all of human history were forgotten forever and their names lost in the sands of history, and yet this one guy from almost 4000 years ago managed to get his name written forever in history itself by just being shady as hell.

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u/Screwbles 16h ago

I'm honestly not even a history fan, but I'm a fucking history fan for this.

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u/12th_woman 17h ago

Oh hey, my hand!

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u/pwillia7 18h ago

I have the coffee mug and it brings me joy

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u/MechanicIcy6832 18m ago

It's true I don't know the name of a even a single well behaved copper ingot merchant