CoinOfNoteJust about to head home, here is the spare change... Sphere, at Frankfurt airport. What currencies can you see inside?
Here are some more coins from my current trip in Germany. Firstly, it is interesting how the 5 euro cent coin is only slightly bigger than the 10 euro cents and slightly smaller than the 20 euro cents (the 5c is copper plated steel where the others are Nordic gold, thicker and with different edge).
Secondly, here is some of my change sitting on a coin purse I purchased in Römerberg, the new old town area in Frankfurt.
My German conference is going well. It's completely unrelated to #numismatics, but I still have new #coins to share. Here are four I picked up in change:
- a 2014 F (Stuttgart) 1 euro cent
- a 2009 French 10 euro cents
- a 2002 A (Berlin) 20 euro cents
- a 2009 A (Berlin) 2 euros commemorating 10 years of the euro monetary union.
I do love how although the EU countries each use the euro (mostly, I shared an article on that earlier today), there are so many variations between member countries and even within each (eg with the various German mints)
Nick with autocorrect offSo proof coins are made specifically to exhibit. They're made from polished blanks and dies, so the background has a mirror finish. Not like tons are made. They're easy to find in coin shops, but hard to find out in the world. I got this in change for my coffee today
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Coin of Note is in Deutschland! For work completely unrelated to numismatics, but could work have put me up at a more suitable hotel? Check out my room and my colleague's! (This is Nhow in Frankfurt, and the whole hotel is currency themed). And for spending, here are some euro notes.
Are there any good numismatic type things I could try to fit in while I'm in Frankfurt this week?
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I'm just about to head off on a work trip for a week, but here's something #numismatic before I even leave the country. A donation box at the airport to put spare foreign change in. What currencies can you see here? #numismatics #coins #CoinCollecting #money #banknotes @numismatics
It is nearly Newsletter time! So, I realised I should share this fortnight's #MysteryCoin. Nearly late, as usual - a good reason to subscribe to the #Newsletter, as then you would have had nearly a fortnight to work on your guesses :)
In any case, where is this coin from? Ok, if you can read the language, this one might be easier. For the rest of us, several crossed... swords? with Arabic writing around the edge. Who? What? Where? When? Basically anything you can tell me about this coin will probably get you a mention in the newsletter :D
Six 19th Century coins and tokens have been discovered beneath the foremast of HMS Victory.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8p4yqen0go
The discovery connects directly to a long-standing maritime tradition in which coins were placed beneath a ship's mast as a symbolic act.
The newly discovered coins and token, together with the earlier coin discovered beneath Victory's main lower mast, will go on display in the Victory Gallery at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
#numismatics #CoinCollecting #coins #history #navy #RoyalNavy #histodons #ship #shipping #NavalHistory @numismatics @histodons
On the 20th May 325 AD, the Council of Nicea was convened by Emperor Constantine to unify the early Christian church. Its key actions included formulating the Nicene Creed to define Christ's divinity, condemning Arianism, standardizing the date of Easter, and establishing foundational canon law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea
I don't have a coin specifically commemorating that (does anyone have one they can share?) but here is a coin issued under Emperor Constantine from the same period: https://coinofnote.com/324-329-ad-constantine-camp-gates/
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The earliest known Menorah coin
From E-Sylum: https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n20.html#article21
Two rare coins dating to over 2,000 years ago have been returned to Israel, following a joint law-enforcement operation between Israel and the United States, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement on Tuesday.
One of the coins bears the earliest known depiction of the seven-branched Jewish menorah, along with a showbread table used in the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It was minted in bronze in the first half of the first century CE, when the Second Temple was still standing.
The other coin, a 2,500-year-old silver coin most likely minted in the ancient city of Ashkelon, is only the second of its kind known worldwide.
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