CULTURE
The Intergalactic
Space Chronicle
Unique Alien Coins Found in the 3,000-Year-Old Ruins
By Mark Denson
We would not have known these were actually alien coins had we found them a hundred years earlier. Heck, we wouldn’t have known this was an alien currency even just ten years ago.
But now that the Opraalin alien species are reoccurring visitors to our planet, we know enough about them to recognize a coin that belongs to their culture.
The real question is how did their coins get to ruins that have only recently been dug out of the 3,000-year-old structure.
The Opraalins have always claimed that they had never visited Earth before. It is a basis of good relations. We ceremoniously introduced them to just about everything from pancakes to volcanos. Did they lie to us? Or perhaps they didn’t know themselves that they had been here on Earth? Was it a lone traveler that parted from his coins?
It seems that the Opraalins are as baffled as we are. A few who agreed to speak to the paper said that they believed it to be; either a careless time traveler or just a space traveler that passed through both cultures 3,000 years ago.
If all that is true, I can’t help but wonder what was his business here? And what part did he play in what we are today? Was he just a silent passerby or was he more than that? What was he buying with those coins? I’d like to think that perhaps he or she is the reason we have found a mutual language with these aliens in this era.
Oh me oh my, how a past, present, and future are so easily rewritten by the flip of a coin.