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The Gold Coin Pile

Ancient Egyptian coins that went south

By Yazmine ReavesPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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The Gold Coin Pile
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It's the year 30BC.

Queen Zephnefity is reigning over the country of Egypt where she plans to implement a new coin system. For years the Egyptians operated on a barter type of system where they would trade items in exchange for other items, but now with this coin system, they will be able to increase their wealth even more.

The coin we now know as the Bitcoin was actually one of the lesser valued coins of this day and age. What is our penny, was their what we call today, a Bitcoin. How did we get a hold of them? Why were they so undervalued? Well, those are some great questions.

Around the year 25BC, Queen Zephnefity had remarried King Boa. On the outside, their relationship is what we call "relationship goals". These two were seemingly inseparable! But what we did not was that King Bao was plotting against the Queen this entire time, but we will get to that a bit later.

King Bao became so immersed in the Queen's coin system that he even began creating his very own coin. No one of course knew of this and just thought that he was very passionate about the coin system. He would work servants day in and day out without rest to create this perfect coin. Queen Zephnefity was too wrapped up in political business to notice anything of the sort.

One day, King Bao struck gold (literally)! He had finally created the perfect coin. When he had gone to show the Queen, she rejected him immediately exclaiming that "This coin will surely not do. It will ruin the whole coin system!" and this angered King Bao, so much so that he decided to take matters into his own hands and planned to have Queen Zephnefity killed! His very own wife and love of his life! The two who were once "relationship goals" and inseparable were now at each other's throats (literally)!

King Bao had convinced his wife to implement his coin and the coin rose to become one of the most sought after coins in the country! People were doing any and everything to get their hands on their very own Bao coin.

A few months later.

Queen Zephnefity passes away due to unknown circumstances. King Bao is now taking over everything and doing things his own way, especially with the coin system. No one thought it strange that he was still so adamant about the coin system and the delegations of the country because he's the king right? It wasn't until one day that news came out about King Bao. His mistress, a maid that Queen Zephnefity has had since the time of her ascension, spilled all of the tea on King Bao and Queen Zephnefity's marriage and what really happened to the Queen!

The maid, Aschenia, told everyone about the interaction the King and Queen had just a few months prior. The rejection of King Bao's oh so famous coin, and not only that but the plot that King Bao had against Queen Zephnefity. The maid had found out that King Bao would slip poison into the Queen's beverages and food almost daily! Slowly enough to not cause suspicion but effective enough to finish the job if you know what I mean. After all of this information arose about King Bao everyone immediately discarded their Bao coins and went to overthrow the King and his newly founded government. The coin's value went down without hesitation, becoming worthless.

To wrap this story up, the coin we now know as the 'Bitcoin' was actually a pretty well-known coin back in the day but due to unfortunate events, its value was quickly diminished.

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