#Numismatics

Ancient Coin of the Day: As it's First Constitutional Settlement day, it would be rude if today's coin weren't Augustan, so let's kick off with a denarius of 19-18 BC
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Ancient Coin of the Day: Realistically today, there could only be one topic - as a birthday present for Nero, let's look at how a young princeps can age rapidly
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Ancient Coin of the Day: A brass dupondius of Claudius, ca. AD 41-50, commemorating the deification of Livia, the wife of Augustus and grandmother of Claudius. #ACOTD #Livia Image: RIC
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Ancient Coin of the Day: One of my favourites today - the fantastic aureus of Septimius Severus from AD 202-210, showing the Stadium of Domitian. #ACOTD #SeptimiusSeverusImage: RIC IV Septimius
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Ancient Coin of the Day: A quick thread today, as I'm still sleepy! But an opportunity to look at some beautiful coins from Magna Graecia, starting with this silver stater
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Ancient Coin of the Day: As I've been reading again about him recently, here's an utterly gorgeous cistophoric tetradrachm of Mark Antony from 39 BC, struck at Ephesus. #ACOTD #Antony
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Ancient Coin of the Day: Just got Hercules on my mind today, so the thread is going to look at the connection which Commodus forged with Hercules, starting with this
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I am going to start to put up parts of my collection here. Going to start with #India. #Numismatics Lets start with the most treasurable in my collection, 2nd 1
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New coin: Roman silver denarius of Trajan minted around 107-108 AD, celebrating the victorious culmination of his Dacian Wars. The near mint state denarius depicts a Roman trophaeum; a victory
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Dignitaries of Vizag~Dasapalla King PURNA CHANDRA DEO BHANJ dev, 24th Raja of Daspalla 1965/2006, born 1931, educated at Rajkumar College in Raipur and at A. V. N. College in Vizag
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Was reminded earlier by a chat with @MartynWaites about the eccentric style that the publishers Gollancz used to employ for their cover quotes.https://twitter.com/SSheil/status/1349416985751416838 This might be the favourite I’ve seen
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This is about a man who lived for just 55 years but whose contribution for Rashtra or Dharma cannot be gauged in few lines or with few awards.And Yes, Olatagaras…He
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This is a really interesting coin! It imitates a Sāmānid silver dirham of Nasr II (913–42); the cross is suggested to represent Olga of Kiev's conversion to Christianity in perhaps
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Time for another #MoneyAtoZ thread. A series of tweetorials based on my @iubHistory @IUCollege History of Money course (HIST-W 330).A is for Ancient EconomyB is for BitcoinC is for Cowriesd
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Classics For All... or Looting For All? A deep-dive on an ongoing charity auction to benefit @classicsforall... which will give substantial tax benefits to Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza's Kallos Gallery for
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1/n On the onset of historical judgment by SC in regards to #AyodhyaVerdict . I take pleasure to bring forward few important facts. Acerbic may it be to taste but
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