#Numismatics

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Coin, Tetradrachm: A. Head of Athena, three olive leaves on the helmet; B. AΘE

Country/Issuer: Ancient Greece, Attica Athenes

Date: 5th century B.C.

Medium: Silver

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #archaeology #ancient history #coin #ancient coins #money #numismatics #athens #attica #ancient greece #greece #ancient greek #tetradrachm #athena #silver #5th century B.C.

[ilikeit-art]

#numismatics #coin #artwork

[didoofcarthage]

Denarius with head of Augustus wearing oak wreath (obverse) and comet with eight rays and inscription Divus Julius (reverse)

Roman (possibly minted at Caesaraugusta, modern Zaragoza in Spain), Imperial Period, 19-18 B.C.

silver

British Museum

#I love the coins of Augustus with representations of Caesar's Comet #I linked to the Wikipedia page if you want more info #denarius #Augustus #Julius Caesar #Caesar #Caesar's Comet #Divus Julius #Roman Empire #Augustan Period #Imperial Period #silver #coin #numismatics #British Museum

[lionofchaeronea]

Gold stater (diameter=18 mm; weight=9.09 g) from the ancient Greek city of Panticapaeum, a Milesian colony on the Black Sea. The obverse bears the head of the god Pan, shown in three-quarter view and crowned with ivy. The reverse depicts a griffin with a spear in its mouth, standing on an ear of grain (the Black Sea region was an important center of grain production for the ancient Mediterranean world). Around the griffin are the Greek letters ΠΑΝ. Now in the Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Altes Museum, Berlin. Photo credits: ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons.

#classics #tagamemnon #Ancient Greece #ancient history #art #art history #Greek art #Ancient Greek art #Panticapaeum #Greek religion #Ancient Greek religion #Hellenic polytheism #God Pan #coins #ancient coins #Greek coins #Ancient Greek coins #stater #numismatics #ancient numismatics #metalwork #goldwork #Altes Museum

[ihobbit]

While on the continent I found this 5 cent coin. Oak leaves and acorns together - what could be more magnificent! Since then I always carry this coin with me)

#hobbit #the hobbit #bilbo #bilbo baggins #bagginshield #thorin #ihobbit #thilbo #thorin oakenshield #oak #oak tree #oak leaves #acorn #coin #bilbo x thorin #thorin x bilbo #numismatics #acorns #precious #coins #mine

[anguilliforme]

YOUR TURN !!! BANKNOTE TOUR !!

ooh okay!!!! I have two banknote folders- one for my standard world notes and another for hyperinflation notes and any banknotes too large to fit into the first folder.

the renniks is the latter, i have 45 hyperinflation notes, a couple of my faves:

these nicaraguan ones which have the higher values hastily stamped over with black ink that glows under UV. I'm sure you've seen my fascination with hyperiflation designs before. the rushed desperation of the stamp-over style really gets to me.

here is the hundred trillion dollar note that i stayed up past midnight to make sure nobody outbid me, i got it for far less than a lot of hundred trillions are going for these days.

Also in the folder are my Big notes, for some of these i had to craft my own archive slip out of two XXL slips!

this includes my largest note, the thai 60 baht commemorative note.

Now onto my other folder, this one is considerably larger, and while its not completely filled, it's a few spending sprees away from me needing a new one:

I have mine organised in "kind of alphabetical" order. that just means that i bothered to put my notes in an a-is-for-australia, b-is-for-bhutan order but i didn't bother to alphabetise any more than that. Some of the highlights of the notes:

arabic countries absolutely go off with their designs! i'm a lover of both aesthetics and scripts that aren't latin, so these banknotes appeal greatly.

i've always found the netherland's 2 1/2 banknotes and coins so fun to look at. logically i get that it's just half of five and is probably a lot more useful when it comes to transactions but. fraction on a banknote.

my forgery peso! i got this one at a coin/banknote con last year. it was clearly labelled as a forgery and i was so intrigued about its circumstances that i had to get it.

this french algerian banknote (centre) is my most weak and pathetic banknote. i genuinely thought it was going to crumble in my hand as i put it in the archive slip. i've never been more scared to put a banknote into a slip. it's not coming back out because i don't think it would survive the journey.

#answered #my banknotes #banknote collecting #numismatics #hope you liked the tour! if theres any particular part of my collection you want to see lmk

[circulating-eel]

no idea if this counts as a part of the eel collection, but i have a finnish mint 2018 euro set with a european eel token. it’s even got an eel folder!!

#my coins #eel coins #? #coin collecting #numismatics #finland #coins

[racefortheironthrone]

Say you were the Master of Coin that Robert first appointed after the rebellion. Your first major task is introducing milled coins to the realm. What's your best strategy to do so?

The basic strategy is to invest in the underlying Early Modern technology, and then combine that with the traditional legal/public process of "renovatio monetae" to get the word about the need to replace old money with new money.

Everything else is enforcement - you need royal justices to declare that old money will not be accepted as payment for taxes and fees, legal settlements, court judgements, and valid payments for contracts, and preferably combine that with some high-profile criminal cases against forgers and counterfeiters to hook the medieval true crime enthusiasts.

#history #early modern history #medieval history #numismatics #medieval currency #medieval coinage

[bignaz8]

Back before American coinage was widespread, they continued to use the Spanish Reale coin, which was also called a piece of eight. For fractional currency, they would cut the coins into eight slices like a pizza. Each slice was called a bit.

The US quarter was a two bits equivalent, each bit representing 12.5% or cents. The vernacular remained in America for well over a century: 'Shave and a haircut, two bits'.

#numismatics #history

[mioritic]

Roman spintria with erotic scene on obverse and "VIIII" on reverse, ca. 22-37 AD

#roman #roman empire #numismatics #spintria

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Stater of Phalasarna with head of Artemis.

Culture: Greek

Period: Late Classical Period

Date: 350 B.C.

Mint: Crete, Phalasarna

Medium: Silver

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #ancient history #archaeology #greek #ancient coin #coin #numismatics #currency #stater of Phalasarna #artemis #late classical period #crete #silver #350 b.c.

[classicalshorts]

PINK and an Ancient Pun!

Our word pink seems to derive from the colour of the flowers we know as 'Pinks', specifically coming from their frilled edges and may come from German.

However, there are two words, one Greek and one Latin that give us very familiar English words.

We shall go to the Latin first. roseus means the colour of the rose, rosa, that is to say, pink, reddish-pink, or rosy. The rose is a favourite flower with many, including myself. It's pretty name comes from the language of the Romans.

The Greek word is related to the Latin rosa and you will notice the similarity between them: ῥοδος (rhodos). You may well be a fan of the lovely flower the rhododendron, which, yes, is commonly a pinkish-red. The name means 'red or pink tree'. In Homer the word ῥοδος forms a lovely adjective with δακτυλος (rhododaktylos), which the poet uses to describe dawn, capturing the lovely pink-reddish-golden colour of the sunrise sky.

Now, here is where the pun comes in. ῥοδος can also denote the flower the rose.

The lovely coin above shows a rose, a ῥοδος. You will have also spotted a word at the top which reads ΡΟΔΙΩΝ (ῥοδιων - rhodion). This tells you the people who minted these coin. Wait for it...(*drum roll*)...it was the Rhodians. The coin puns on the name of the people and the flower.

So, that concludes Cool Colours entry VII. Who knew you could connect the colour pink with ancient numismatic punnage? Wonderful!

#pink #red #rose #rosy #latin language #rhodos #rhodians #coinage #numismatics #ancient greek #derivatives #colours

[didoofcarthage]

Denarius with head of Julius Caesar (obverse) and Venus holding Victory (reverse), minted under P. Sepullius Macer at Rome

Roman, Republican Period, 44 B.C.

silver

British Museum

#Ides of March #Julius Caesar #Caesar #Ancient Rome #Roman Republic #Republican Period #Rome #denarius #silver #coin #numismatics #Venus #Victory #British Museum

[lionofchaeronea]

Stater, minted 380/379 BCE at Tarsus in Cilicia, of Pharnabazus II, former satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia under the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia and a major figure in the internecine conflicts of the Greek city-states during the late 5th/early 4th centuries. The coin shows the complex intermingling of Greek and Near Eastern cultures characteristic of Anatolia under Achaemenid rule. On the obverse, Ba'al of Tarsus is shown seated, holding a lotus-tipped scepter and wearing the Greek chlamys. On the reverse, a bearded man wears a helmet in Attic style. Both sides are inscribed in Aramaic, which served as the lingua franca of the Near East under the Achaemenids. Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

#history #ancient history #classics #tagamemnon #Persian Empire #Achaemenid #coins #ancient coins #Persian coins #numismatics #ancient numismatics #artifacts #artefacts

[theantonian]

Fulvia AR denarius issued by Marcus Antonius. Rome mint, ca. 42 BC, 3.5 gm, 17.0 mm. Ob. draped bust of Fulvia as victory. Rev. victory in biga holding reins of two horses. Inscribed, L MVSSIDIVS LONGVS

Mark Antony's 2nd wife Fulvia was the first roman woman to be portrayed on coins. Beautifully toned attractive portrait of Fulvia Flacca Bambula. Somewhat rough around the edges and the reverse struck slightly off center, otherwise, very fine.

#fulvia #mark antony #marcus antonius #numismatics #denarius #silver coins #roman coins #coins #ancient coins #ancient rome #rome #roman history #roman republic #roman empire

[heracliteanfire]

Coin Cabinet of Archduke Ferdinand II, approx. 1580.

From the ‘more is more’ school of design.

(via Museum of Art History: Coin Cabinet of Archduke Ferdinand II)

#cabinet #Archduke Ferdinand II #1580s #C16th #furniture #numismatics