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A community for collectors of ancient and medieval coins.

ID requests are welcome, but please post clearly lit images of both sides of the coin as well as a picture of the edges of the coin.

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Gold coin (Aureus) of the Emperor Hadrian, Roman Empire, 118 AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O118597/aureus-of-hadrian-coin-unknown/

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Gold coin ('hyperpyron'), Constantinople (now Istanbul), Byzantine Empire, 1081-1118 AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28228706

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O117869/gold-nomisma-hyperpyron-coin-unknown/

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Silver coins of (left) Gordian III, Roman Emperor in 238-244 AD, and (right) Postumus, founder of a split-away Gallic Empire in 260 AD, France (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27813959

https://www.romeartlover.it/Gaul.html

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Gold dinar, Umayyad Caliphate, found in modern-day Lebanon, 694 AD-695 AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27678979

https://numismatics.org/collection/1970.63.1

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Umayyad Gold Dinar, 723 AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27631631

https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/hajj-and-the-arts-of-pilgrimage/khalili-collection-hajj-and-the-arts-of-pilgrimage-umayyad-gold-dinar-av1032/

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Gold Umayyad coin, probably minted in Damascus, 691 AD-692 AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27396673

https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/islamic-art/khalili-collection-islamic-art-gold-solidus-av1085/

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Four well-preserved Roman coins, copper alloy, 1st century BCE/AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupondius_de_N%C3%AEmes

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Norse silver coin turned into a pendant, Sweden, 800 AD-1100 AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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https://samlingar.shm.se/object/9D040206-A5BD-4312-BCFC-598B6B2F63DA

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Selection of Hellenic coins, ~6th-~2nd century BCE (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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Corroded silver coin with a trident, Ukraine, 1019 AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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Bronze sestertius of the Roman Emperor Vespasian, 71 AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS III

IMPERATOR CAESAR VESPASIAN AUGUSTUS PONTIFEX MAXIMUS TRIBUNICIA POTESTATE PATER PATRIAE CONSUL TERTIUM

(yes, the Romans were very fond of abbreviations)

Emperor (or 'Commander') Caesar Vespasian Augustus, high priest, holder of tribunician power (veto and the power to propose legislation), father of the fatherland, consul (elected political leader) for the third time

IVDEA CAPTA S C

IVDEA CAPTA SENATUS CONSULTUM

Judea conquered, [by] decree of the Senate

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sestertius_-_Vespasiano_-_Iudaea_Capta-RIC_0424.jpg

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Indonesian Piloncito coin, 8th-10th century AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/50076

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Greek coin from Knossos, Crete, 4th century BCE (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_G-2022

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Silver coins of the Golden Horde (or Russian vassals?), 14th-15th century AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Treasure_of_silver_coins_of_the_XIV_-_beg._XV_century._Found_at_Chornaya_Promza_village_of_the_Bolshebereznikovsky_district,_Mordovia,_USSR_in_1961.jpg

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Silver coin of ancient Athens and modern Greek 1 Euro coin, 425-400 BCE (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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Some average-grade Philip I coins I bought at an auction yesterday (feddit.dk)
submitted 2 months ago by EvilCartyen@feddit.dk to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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Aksumite gold coin, Ethiopia, 500-525 AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25995616

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1910-1207-1

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Gold coin of the Kilwa Sultanate, Tanzania, 14th century AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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My Maximinus Thrax denarius (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago by EvilCartyen@feddit.dk to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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Probably quite early in his reign, as the portrait looks quite a bit like Severus Alexander.

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A Licinius II follows with a naked Jupiter on the reverse ;) (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago by EvilCartyen@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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318-324 AD

DN VAL LICIN LICINIVS NOB C, helmeted and cuirassed bust left holding spear and shield

IOVI CONSERVATORI, Jupiter standing left holding Victory on globe and eagle-tipped scepter, another eagle at feet to left, captive seated on ground to right, XIII in right field

Sear 15409

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Hoard of gold coins, Roman Britain, 2nd century AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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Billon coin of Roman Emperor Trebonianus Gallus, coin minted in Syria, 252-253 AD (infosec.pub)
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Hephthalite (White Hun) coin with a swastika, Northern Pakistan, 5th or 6th century AD (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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https://ehistory.kz/kz/news/show/339320

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This is test post from Friendica (friendica.world)
submitted 4 months ago by evilcartyen@friendica.world to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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Does it work?

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One of my bronze coins of Maximimus II from 312 CE (infosec.pub)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by EvilCartyen@feddit.dk to c/ancientcoins@lemmy.world
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This particular coin - a follis - was struck in early 312 AD in Nicomedia

Obverse: IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS PF AVG, laureate head right

Reverse: GENIO A-VGVSTI, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked, except for chlamys over left shoulder (falls low), holding patera from which liquid flows, and cornucopiae. Right field: Γ. Mintmark SMN.

SMN stands for 'Sacra Moneta Nicomedia' - the mint in the city of Nicomedia where this coin was struck.

The Γ in the right field is a gamma - the third letter in the Greek alphabet - and signifies that this coin was struck in the 3rd workshop in the Nicomedia mint.

I like this coin a lot because it's in such excellent shape :) Pretty much as struck, except for the silvering which is gone.

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