Interesting #novelty #coin of the day: This piece has a #Plague doctor on one side - this was a volunteer or an actual doctor, though the duty was often more to record accurate numbers of deaths than curing people (though some charged promising cures). Although often a #caricature, beaked masks like this have been dated to the 1700s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor Wearing a modern medical coat & stethoscope (invented in 1816).

The other side has a #clock at 8:55 (Does anyone know a potential reason for that?) with the dates 1347-1351 in the centre - that was the rough years of the #Black #Death in Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

I can't read the text above the centre?

The piece itself is an Equilateral curve heptagon (7-sided), about 25mm diameter, similar to a 1991-1994 Jamaica 25 cents: https://en.numista.com/6476 & about 3mm thick.

I'll tag #Histodons since the theme is historical, though the piece isn't.

#Numismatics #CoinCollecting #BlackDeath #Pandemic #History @numismatics @histodons

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116176564198249824

Unmanaged rewilding >of a previously human-controlled environment< indeed decreases biodiversity even further.
The animals required for ensuring a good mix of open woodland, meadows, and forest don't exist anymore. And so, a natural rewilding of such post-human land leads to shrub-dominated flora.
It takes quite a while for this to change into a balanced and diverse flora and fauna.
Longer still for rewilding of a post-civilisation, climate-change_impacted region.

Good writeup of a paywalled paper:
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/eco03052601.html

I asked an author for an uploaded PDF so might post a link to that later. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70325
edit: free pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401563116_Black_Death_Land_Abandonment_Drove_European_Diversity_Losses

The Black Death pandemic from 1347ff is not a blueprint however for what's in store for European post-civilisation landscapes.
The pre-pandemic population of the whole continent was only 60 mio people, that is today's UK population.
So their #landuse was much, much smaller. Forests still were home to wolf packs and bears, one of the prerequisites for a healthy #biodiversity.

Another thing I'd like to get an answer for: how much does the water cycle change with rewilding, ie with shrub-ification?
Will a post-civilisation East-Germany and Poland still turn into dry steppe as projected for >1.5°C?
Or will the shrub-ification counter this climate change impact by increasing cloud-nuclei and rain amounts?

#RCPcollapse #BlackDeath #Hydrology #ClimateChange #Biodiversity

Страсбурзька різанина: погром на тлі страху і забобонів.
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/kazojocidi

#СтрасбурзькаРізанина #ЧорнаСмерть #АнтиєврейськіПогроми #СередньовічнаІсторія #ІсторичнаПамять
#StrasbourgMassacre #BlackDeath #JewishPersecution #MedievalHistory #HistoricalMemory