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  1. Girdle of gold coins and medallions, Byzantine Empire, ~583 AD

  2. Girdle of gold coins and medallions, Byzantine Empire, ~583 AD

  3. Carthaginian coin with a crayfish, Sicily, Italy, ~3rd century BCE?

  4. Carthaginian coin with a crayfish, Sicily, Italy, ~3rd century BCE?

  5. The thing that surprises me most with #fascism is how that don't even bother to hide their intentions. They don't care, and it doesn't cause them to lose any support

    In the #USA they are doing a #currency #coinage redesign and they... just fucking dropped the #OliveBranch from the design of the #Eagle symbol, which has been there for 250 years

    Are they going to replace the missing Olive Branch with the fascist #Fasces symbol next year?

    Comparison with the #US #Dollar:

    fortune.com/2026/03/12/us-mint

  6. Coniatore di Moneta — Minter of Coins — Grevembroch 2-162

    This painting depicts a Venetian moneyer, working in the Zecca of the Republic of Venice, in the process of hammering out a coin.

    As a merchant nation, stable and sufficient coinage was an essential interest of the Republic of Venice, and the production of coins of gold, silver and copper was high regulated.

    The Venetian mint was managed by magistrates, who were initially appointed by the Council of Ten, and later directly by the Venetian Senate.

    #Coinage #Venezia #Venice

    Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/translation/coniatore-di-moneta-minter-of-coins-grevembroch-2-162/

  7. Copper coins from Masada, rebel-held fortress in Iudea, Roman Empire, 66-73 AD

  8. Copper coins from Masada, rebel-held fortress in Iudea, Roman Empire, 66-73 AD

  9. Copper coins from Masada, rebel-held fortress in Iudea, Roman Empire, 66-73 AD

  10. The Maths of Coins and Currencies via Gresham College [Shared]

    People have used money – and made counterfeits - for thousands of years. Archimedes came up with a clever way of finding out if you’ve been cheated by a goldsmith. Making coins with the right proportions of the right metals presented a huge mathematical challenge for Fibonacci and other mathematicians in the middle ages.

    This lecture will discuss mathematical elements of coin design, denominations, and why former Gresham Professor of Astronomy Sir Christopher Wren favoured decimal coinage.

    A lecture by Sarah Hart

    welchwrite.com/blog/2025/08/20

    #education #lecture #coins #coinage #counterfeit #history

  11. #archaeology #history #coinage #shipwrecks #technology

    Some gold coins that were minted in Peru in 1707 may help to solve a shipwreck mystery. The coins were found in the stern of a ship some 2,000 feet below the sea. The knowledge that these coins were minted in 1707 in Peru helps to prove that the ship is the San Jose which sank off the Columbian coast in 1708. Using technology such as a remote vehicle and photogrammetry the coins were examined whilst in situ. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

  12. We know #Trump wants a glamorised version of his face carved on Mount Rushmore - he’s mentioned it several times.

    I’m just wondering when he’ll order his image to be on all #US #coinage.

    You know he’ll make it happen, it’s just a question of when? #USPol #auspol #ego

  13. Some minor notes for #Fantasy #authors & #artists on #coinage. A modern Gold Sovereign is 22mm across and weighs 7 to 8gr. It's worth, now, about a month's rent. A medieval Florin was 18mm across, weighed 3.5gr, and was more than the monthly pay of a porter. Most people would never see one of those coins; they were mostly used by nations.
    Please mind the proportions.

  14. y'all ever expect something to exist, find out it doesn't, then have a "fine, I'll do it myself" moment?
    turns out not only there somehow wasn't any Anki deck for #Czech coinage, there wasn't any tool to memorise them at all.
    so I created one. enjoy!
    ankiweb.net/shared/info/126822

    #coins #coinage #koruna #crowns #czk # #Czechia #anki

  15. "Our analysis of 49 coins from the North Sea zone indicates that Byzantine silver plate was the source of silver for the initial minting of the first post-Roman silver coins in England, Frisia and parts of Francia. From c. AD 750, freshly mined silver from Melle, Aquitaine, was introduced to this North Sea zone, becoming the dominant source following the coinage reforms of AD 793."

    Kershaw, J. et al. (2024) ‘Byzantine plate and Frankish mines: the provenance of silver in north-west European coinage during the Long Eighth Century (c. 660–820)’, Antiquity, 98(398), pp. 502–517. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.33. #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Europe #MiddleAges #Byzantine #Analysis #Coinage #Archaeology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

  16. Solving an early medieval money mystery with lead isotope and trace analysis - Enlarge / A selection of the Fitzwilliam Museum coins that were studied... - arstechnica.com/?p=2015495 #medievalhistory #medievalcoins #silvermining #archaeology #numismatics #metallurgy #chemistry #science #coinage

  17. In case anyone else wants a phrase for "this week between Christmas and New Year's, where very little can get done, because practically everyone is on vacation", I've been referring to it as the Dead Week for some years now. #coinage #neologism #newWords #language

  18. I'm still horribly late on drawtober things, but I do have a little dragon here. It's glaucus atlanticus a fabulous sea dragon! The silver groat of Henry VIII. is pretty much to scale.

    #nature #marinelife #seaslug #coinage #silvergroat

    #art #illustration #digitalart #digitalillustration #digitaldrawing #MastoArt #drawtober #jessethejoyfuldrawtober21