Actors Steven Edenbo and Ian Rose brought Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton to life at the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Philadelphia Expo this morning.

The American Historical Theatre mainstays debated one another and explored the divergent views that clashed at the birth of the American republic. Drawing on sources that include The Federalist Papers and Jefferson's letters to Lafayette, the two kept an audience of Expo attendees spell-bound for an hour-long conversation, somewhat heated at times, about the merits of a national bank, a federal role in education and the Constitution of the fledgling United States.