numismatica
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Just seeing if this might be an alternative platform when I'm away from my laptop … BBC News – Gold and silver traces 'may be in Jersey coin hoard' … hopefully I'll properly blog this one later … The coin hoard which dates from 50BC weighs about three quarters of a tonne Traces of gold…
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I’m sure most of you have seen this — it’s been making the rounds these past couple of days — from Wired: *This one features the Moon driving her chariot over a housefly. *I can’t doubt that this made perfect sense at the time. It’s like: you got drunk, and you went to the gladiatorial…
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What will likely be a pile of coverage just starting on this one … here’s the incipit what the Telegraph says: David Crisp, a 63-year-old hospital chef, located the 52,503 coins in a single earthenware pot in a field near Frome, Somerset. Mr Crisp, from Devizes in Wiltshire, said his detector gave a “funny signal”…
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Interesting … Demonstrating that chemistry sometimes can inform history, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Colorado College and Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md., have shown that sensitive nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques can be used to determine the elemental composition of ancient coins, even coins that generally have been considered…
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Interesting press release from the Austrian Mint: For some five centuries the River Danube formed an essential part of ancient Rome’s northern border against the barbarian tribes of Germania. The Austrian Mint’s new silver series called “Rome on the Danube” breathes life back into the ruined remains of the towns and forts that played such…
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