World History Encyclopedia · @whencyclopedia
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Unlike the practice of professional numismatists, I prefer to see the “big picture”. worldhistory.org/article/1338/

#silver #romancoinage #coinage #History

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Jim Wald · @CitizenWald
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23 July 1793: Fall of Mainz--the first democratic republic on German soil--to Counterrevolutionary Coalition Forces

Here, emergency
issued by the French Revolutionary government during the siege from May onward, based on French domestic

A similar one is depicted in this historical summary of the events

dhm.de/mediathek/en/ida/mainz-

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#coinage #coins #numismatics #frenchrevolution

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World History Encyclopedia · @whencyclopedia
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Unlike the practice of professional numismatists, I prefer to see the “big picture”. worldhistory.org/article/1338/

#silver #romancoinage #coinage #History

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World History Encyclopedia · @whencyclopedia
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Just as in other ancient civilizations, the first banks in Rome began in the temples consecrated to the ancient Gods. worldhistory.org/article/974/b

#romancoinage #gold #coinage #History

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World History Encyclopedia · @whencyclopedia
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Just as in other ancient civilizations, the first banks in Rome began in the temples consecrated to the ancient Gods. worldhistory.org/article/974/b

#romancoinage #gold #coinage #History

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World History Encyclopedia · @whencyclopedia
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Today, traveling an hour by ferry from Piraeus, the port of Athens, the first remnant of Aegina's great past a visitor will see is the lonely pillar of Apollo rising from the trees on the hill of Kolona.worldhistory.org/article/39/th

#History #coinage #aegina #aegean

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Kagan MacTane · @kagan
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You open an app.

A modal dialog pops up, ostensibly explaining how to use a new feature, but really its purpose just to let you know that the feature exists at all. Is it:

#portmanteau #coinage

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Bríd McGrath · @bridmcgrath
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Today’s @odnb life is Percy Metcalfe, who designed the for the new Éireann. I loved those coins, so simple & beautiful. (1895–1970), coin, medal, and seal designer and sculptor. oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/

#coinage #saorstat

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Liana Brooks · @LianaBrooks
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RT @CMaclean96@twitter.com

Copper Bawbee (6 pence Scots) of William II & III, struck at the Edinburgh mint in 1695. Scotland’s last copper coins were struck during William’s reign. From the Hunter Collection @hunterian@twitter.com

🐦🔗: twitter.com/CMaclean96/status/

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usedlittlegems · @usedlittlegems
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Kagan MacTane · @kagan
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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

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Jas Z🐕 · @Iquitoz
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The "Union Shield" design on the reverse side of the USerland penny issued in 2010 looks like toy money. The penny should be scrapped to save money and the designer's reputation.

#penny #coinage

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chwiggy.creative · @emilychwiggy
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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.

#jessethejoyfuldrawtober21 #drawtober #MastoArt #digitaldrawing #digitalillustration #DigitalArt #illustration #art #silvergroat #coinage #seaslug #marinelife #nature

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