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This high-grade original ancient Greek silver stater coin is one of the most famous and sought-after of ancient coins. It dates back about 2,300 years to the era of the original Greek Olympic Games, circa 370 to 330 BCE. The coin is from from Pamphylia, Aspendos, and features an Olympic scene of two wrestlers grappling. The reverse features a warrior with a sling, about to discharge his weapon. The city's name is to the left of the warrior and to the right is a triskelion (three legs radiating from a common centre.)
The original Olympic games are generally dated back to 776 BCE, and continued every four years through both Greek and Roman rule until 393 CE when they were suppressed by emperor Theodosius I as part of his campaign to impose Christianity as the state religion of the Roman empire. During the celebration of the games, an Olympic truce was enacted so that athletes could travel from their cities to the games in safety. The prizes for the victors were olive leaf wreaths or crowns.
The games became a political tool used by city-states to assert dominance over their rivals. Politicians would announce political alliances at the games, and in times of war, priests would offer sacrifices to the gods for victory. The games were also used to help spread Hellenistic culture throughout the Mediterranean. The Olympics also featured religious celebrations. The statue of Zeus at Olympia was counted as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Sculptors and poets would congregate each Olympiad to display their works of art to would-be patrons.
The ancient Olympics had fewer events than the modern games, and only freeborn Greek men were allowed to participate. As long as they met the entrance criteria, athletes from any Greek city-state and kingdom were allowed to participate. The games were always held at Olympia rather than moving between different locations, as is the practice with the modern Olympic Games. Victors at the Olympics were honoured and their feats chronicled for future generations.
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Victoria Annum Regni Sexagesimum Feliciter Claudit XX IVN - MDCCCXCVII-
victoria annum regni sexagesimum coin 1837
Beautiful Britannia bullion coins, struck in silver raised from the deep
In 1941 the SS Gairsoppa was carrying much needed supplies to a Britain in the grip of the Second World War – including silver destined for The Royal Mint – when she was torpedoed. All but one of her crew perished. For 70 years she has lain below almost three miles of icy water, until she was discovered in 2011. Her precious cargo has now been recovered and we have finally struck coins bearing the ‘queen of the seas’, Britannia, in the ship’s honour – just 20,000 coins will be available in this Limited Edition Presentation.
A story to treasure
Though the story of the Gairsoppa is tragic, it is also a tale of survival. For just as the one remaining crew member, Richard Ayres, battled the terrible seas to reach home, so the Gairsoppa’s cargo has at last reached its destination. In a record-breaking mission – for Gairsoppa lay at a depth of some 2.9 miles, deeper even than the Titanic – almost all her silver was recovered. Some of those ingots were finally delivered to The Royal Mint. Her story now comes full circle as we strike Gairsoppa’s silver into Quarter-Ounce Britannia coins – bearing the stirring image of Britannia, the Queen of the Seas, defender of Britain’s shores.
Each precious coin is part of a story to treasure, presented in a specially designed pack that brings Gairsoppa’s last journey, the bravery of Richard Ayres and the wonder of the salvage mission to life. The pack also includes a DVD of the three-episode TV series following the recovery, Silver Rush. This is such an extraordinary issue of coins and interest is already extremely high. If you wish to honour one of the most poignant tales of the Second World War, you should act with haste.
The story of the SS Gairsoppa is a tragic one. Of the 85 crew members on board, most were lost with their ship. Some men gained the safety of the only surviving lifeboat. All but seven of them would perish in the cold and difficult weeks to follow. When their rudderless lifeboat finally glimpsed land, the fierce waves would see only one man, Second Mate Richard Ayres, reach the shore alive.
Each coin has been struck to bullion standard – fitting for a treasure reborn from the deep. The beautiful portrait of Britannia standing as Britain’s guardian by Philip Nathan features on the coins, each with the ship’s name as an edge inscription in a lasting tribute to Gairsoppa and her crew. This is a limited presentation of 20,000 coins, for of course only a small quantity of Gairsoppa’s silver will ever be minted.
Two silver momorial coins at Egypt's Royal Jewelry Museum including one speaking about the Nile and its irrigations channels
Reverse
Features a modern design by sculptor Emanuel Hahn, showing an Indian and a voyageur, a travelling agent for a fur company, paddling a canoe by an islet on which there are two wind-swept trees. In the canoe are bundles of goods; the bundle at the right has HB, representing the Hudson's Bay Company. The vertical lines in the background represent the northern lights.
The uprising in Colombia occurs in 1810, but the Spanish reaction is brutal and the country gained independence nine years later thanks to the victory of Boyaca, August 7, 1819, won by Bolivar. Angostura Congress in December 1819 saw the creation of the Great Colombia, which includes Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Panama. This set does not survive Bolivar (1783-1830). Venezuela left the Confederation in 1829, Ecuador in 1830, Panama in 1903.
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A Newfoundland 10 cent coin from 1917, yes NEWFOUNDLAND! and a Jell-o hockey card from the 90s of Ed Belfour.
I collect several series of gold and silver coins that are issued yearly. These are among the 2014 offerings by mints from around the world.
This is prtoduced by the Canadian Royal Mint.
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Mauritius was a British Crown Colony off the Southeast coast of Africa.
Formerly part of the French colonial empire, British rule in Mauritius was established de facto with the Invasion of Isle de France in November 1810, and de jure by the subsequent Treaty of Paris.
British rule ended on 12 March 1968, when Mauritius became independent.
Obverse
Queen Victoria facing left
Lettering: VICTORIA QUEEN
Engraver: Leonard Charles Wyon
Reverse
2 in beaded circle
Lettering:
· MAURITIUS ·
TWO CENTS 1883
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Lucilla- This Roman coin is in pretty rough shape. After all, it has been kicking around for over 18 centuries, but even still, I really like the texture on it. Photographically, it presented a few challenges. This coin has a very matte surface so it absorbs all the light. When it's photographed, even with a combination of side and frontal lighting, as I used, the relief on the coin was barley visible. To bring out the bust out of the background I had to dodge and burn different areas of the image.
Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (March 7, 148 or 150 – 182)
In light of her brother's unstable rule, in 182 Lucilla became involved in a plot to assassinate Commodus and replace him with her husband and herself as the new rulers of Rome. Her co-conspirators included Tarrutenius Paternus, the head of the Imperial Guard, her daughter Plautia from her first marriage, a nephew of Quintianus also called Quintianus, and her paternal cousins, the former consul Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus and his sister Ummidia Cornificia Faustina.
Quintianus' nephew, brandishing a dagger or sword, bungled the assassination attempt. As he burst forth from his hiding place to commit the deed, he boasted to Commodus "Here is what the Senate sends to you", giving away his intentions before he had the chance to act. Commodus's guards were faster and the would-be assassin was overpowered without injuring the emperor.
Commodus ordered the deaths of Quintianus' nephew and of Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus, and banished Lucilla, her daughter and Ummidia Cornificia Faustina to the Italian island of Capri. He sent a centurion there to execute them later that year. Her son Pompeianus was later murdered by Caracalla.
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Silver coins; minted in Seleucia ad Tigrim, AD 52-3 and AD 51-2.
Vologases was the Parthian King of Kings from AD 51 to 78. Here he wears a diadem from the Greece goddess Tyche. Acting against a previous settlement between Rome and Parthia. Vologases installed his younger brother as king of Armenia. Nero sent his general Corbulo to restore Roman authority.
[British Museum]
Nero: the Man Behind the Myth
(May - Oct 2021)
Nero is known as one of Rome's most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty, debauchery and madness.
The last male descendant of the emperor Augustus, Nero succeeded to the throne in AD 54 aged just 16 and died a violent death at 30. His turbulent rule saw momentous events including the Great Fire of Rome, Boudicca's rebellion in Britain, the execution of his own mother and first wife, grand projects and extravagant excesses.
Drawing on the latest research, this major exhibition questions the traditional narrative of the ruthless tyrant and eccentric performer, revealing a different Nero, a populist leader at a time of great change in Roman society.
Through some 200 spectacular objects, from the imperial palace in Rome to the streets of Pompeii, follow the young emperor’s rise and fall and make up your own mind about Nero. Was he a young, inexperienced ruler trying his best in a divided society, or the merciless, matricidal megalomaniac history has painted him to be?
Nero was the 5th emperor of Rome and the last of Rome’s first dynasty, the Julio-Claudians, founded by Augustus (the adopted son of Julius Caesar). Nero is known as one of Rome’s most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty and debauchery. He ascended to power in AD 54 aged just 16 and died at 30. He ruled at a time of great social and political change, overseeing momentous events such as the Great Fire of Rome and Boudica’s rebellion in Britain. He allegedly killed his mother and two of his wives, only cared about his art and had very little interest in ruling the empire.
Most of what we know about Nero comes from the surviving works of three historians – Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio. All written decades after Nero’s death, their accounts have long shaped our understanding of this emperor’s rule. However, far from being impartial narrators presenting objective accounts of past events, these authors and their sources wrote with a very clear agenda in mind. Nero’s demise brought forward a period of chaos and civil war – one that ended only when a new dynasty seized power, the Flavians. Authors writing under the Flavians all had an interest in legitimising the new ruling family by portraying the last of the Julio-Claudians in the worst possible light, turning history into propaganda. These accounts became the ‘historical’ sources used by later historians, therefore perpetuating a fabricated image of Nero, which has survived all the way to the present.
Nero was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus on 15 December AD 37.
He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger. Both Gnaeus and Agrippina were the grandchildren of Augustus, making Nero Augustus’ great, great grandson with a strong claim to power.
Nero was only two years old when his mother was exiled and three when his father died. His inheritance was taken from him and he was sent to live with his aunt. However, Nero’s fate changed again when Claudius became emperor, restoring the boy’s property and recalling his mother Agrippina from exile.
In AD 49 the emperor Claudius married Agrippina, and adopted Nero the following year. It is at this point that Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus changed his name to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. In Roman times it was normal to change your name when adopted, abandoning your family name in favour of your adoptive father’s. Nero was a common name among members of the Claudian family, especially in Claudius’ branch.
Nero and Agrippina offered Claudius a politically useful link back to Augustus, strengthening his position.
Claudius appeared to favour Nero over his natural son, Britannicus, marking Nero as the designated heir.
When Claudius died in AD 54, Nero became emperor just two months before turning 17.
As he was supported by both the army and the senate, his rise to power was smooth. His mother Agrippina exerted a significant influence, especially at the beginning of his rule.
The Roman historians Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all claim that Nero, fed up with Agrippina’s interference, decided to kill her.
Given the lack of eyewitnesses, there is no way of knowing if or how this happened. However, this did not stop historians from fabricating dramatic stories of Agrippina’s murder, asserting that Nero tried (and failed) to kill her with a boat engineered to sink, before sending his men to do the job.
Agrippina allegedly told them to stab her in the womb that bore Nero, her last words clearly borrowed from stage plays.
It is entirely possible, as claimed by Nero himself, that Agrippina chose (or was more likely forced) to take her own life after her plot against her son was discovered.
Early in his rule, Nero had to contend with a rebellion in the newly conquered province of Britain.
In AD 60–61, Queen Boudica of the Iceni tribe led a revolt against the Romans, attacking and laying waste to important Roman settlements. The possible causes of the rebellion were numerous – the greed of the Romans exploiting the newly conquered territories, the recalling of loans made to local leaders, ongoing conflict in Wales and, above all, violence against the family of Prasutagus, Boudica’s husband and king of the Iceni.
Boudica and the rebels destroyed Colchester, London and St Albans before being heavily defeated by Roman troops. After the uprising, the governor of Britain Suetonius Paulinus introduced harsher laws against the Britons, until Nero replaced him with the more conciliatory governor Publius Petronius Turpilianus.
The marriage between Nero and Octavia, aged 15 and 13/14 at the time, was arranged by their parents in order to further legitimise Nero’s claim to the throne. Octavia was the daughter of the emperor Claudius from a previous marriage, so when Claudius married Agrippina and adopted her son Nero, Nero and Octavia became brother and sister. In order to arrange their marriage, Octavia had to be adopted into another family.
Their marriage was not a happy one. According to ancient writers, Nero had various affairs until his lover Poppaea Sabina convinced him to divorce his wife. Octavia was first exiled then executed in AD 62 on adultery charges. According to ancient writers, her banishment and death caused great unrest among the public, who sympathised with the dutiful Octavia.
No further motives were offered for Octavia’s death other than Nero’s passion for Poppaea, and we will probably never know what transpired at court. The fact that Octavia couldn’t produce an heir while Poppaea was pregnant with Nero’s daughter likely played an important role in deciding Octavia’s fate.
On 19 July AD 64, a fire started close to the Circus Maximus. The flames soon encompassed the entire city of Rome and the fire raged for nine days. Only four of the 14 districts of the capital were spared, while three were completely destroyed.
Rome had already been razed by flames – and would be again in its long history – but this event was so severe it came to be known as the Great Fire of Rome.
Later historians blamed Nero for the event, claiming that he set the capital ablaze in order to clear land for the construction of a vast new palace. According to Suetonius and Cassius Dio, Nero took in the view of the burning city from the imperial residence while playing the lyre and singing about the fall of Troy. This story, however, is fictional.
Tacitus, the only historian who was actually alive at the time of the Great Fire of Rome (although only 8 years old), wrote that Nero was not even in Rome when the fire started, but returned to the capital and led the relief efforts.
Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all describe Nero as being blinded by passion for his wife Poppaea, yet they accuse him of killing her, allegedly by kicking her in an outburst of rage while she was pregnant.
Interestingly, pregnant women being kicked to death by enraged husbands is a recurring theme in ancient literature, used to explore the (self) destructive tendencies of autocrats. The Greek writer Herodotus tells the story of how the Persian king Cambyses kicked his pregnant wife in the stomach, causing her death. A similar episode is told of Periander, tyrant of Corinth. Nero is just one of many allegedly ‘mad’ tyrants for which this literary convention was used.
Poppaea probably died from complications connected with her pregnancy and not at Nero’s hands. She was given a lavish funeral and was deified.
Centred on greater Iran, the Parthian empire was a major political and cultural power and a long-standing enemy of Rome. The two powers had long been contending for control over the buffer state of Armenia and open conflict sparked again during Nero’s rule. The Parthian War started in AD 58 and, after initial victories and following set-backs, ended in AD 63 when a diplomatic solution was reached between Nero and the Parthian king Vologases I.
According to this settlement Tiridates, brother of the Parthian king, would rule over Armenia, but only after having travelled all the way to Rome to be crowned by Nero.
The journey lasted 9 months, Tiridates’ retinue included 3,000 Parthian horsemen and many Roman soldiers. The coronation ceremony took place in the summer of AD 66 and the day was celebrated with much pomp: all the people of Rome saw the new king of Armenia kneeling in front of Nero. This was the Golden Day of Nero’s rule
In AD 68, Vindex, the governor of Gaul (France), rebelled against Nero and declared his support for Galba, the governor of Spain. Vindex was defeated in battle by troops loyal to Nero, yet Galba started gaining more military support.
It was at this point that Nero lost the support of Rome’s people due to a grain shortage, caused by a rebellious commander who cut the crucial food supply from Egypt to the capital. Abandoned by the people and declared an enemy of the state by the senate, Nero tried to flee Rome and eventually committed suicide.
Following his death, Nero’s memory was condemned (a practice called damnatio memoriae) and the images of the emperor were destroyed, removed or reworked. However, Nero was still given an expensive funeral and for a long time people decorated his tomb with flowers, some even believing he was still alive.
After Nero’s death, civil war ensued. At the end of the so-called ‘Year of the Four Emperors’ (AD 69), Vespasian became emperor and started a new dynasty: the Flavians.
[Francesca Bologna, curator, for British Museum]
Taken in the British Museum
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I love the detail in this coin.
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German States Thaler 1865 B
BRUNSWICK-WOLFENBÜTTEL
SPECIFICATIONS
Composition: Silver
Fineness: 0.9000
Weight: 18.5200g
ASW: 0.5359oz
DESIGN
Obverse: Head right
Obverse Legend: WILHELM HERZOG Z. BRAUNSCHWEIG U. LUN
Reverse: Crowned and mantled arms
Reverse Legend: EIN VEREINSTHALER XXX EIN PFUND FEIN
NOTES
Ruler: Wilhelm
Note: Vereins Thaler.
Head on port view showing a lancer braced at the bow preparing to defend the aggressive approach of the Great White. Also at the bow, a frantic crew member steadies himself with drawn pistol to eventually fire upon the shark.
In this scene I created three sharks. I cleverly hollowed out the wood's interior near the vessel and placed a shark in the cavity -covering it with a generous amount of varnish to illustrate the appearance of the creature ascending from the depths.
I collect several series of gold and silver coins that are issued yearly. These are among the 2014 offerings by mints from around the world.
This is the Koala series produced by Australia's Perth Mint.
Instructed to make 10+ power point presentations with the theme of 'profitability', I found I didn't like most images I found on Google Image Search and we sure weren't paying shutterstock prices for a couple presentations!
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Alex lost his first baby tooth last night. And this morning, he found five silver dollar coins under his pillow. He was super happy. Just a few days ago we had a conversation about being okay to believe in the tooth fairy. Even if it doesn't exist it is fun to think about. It makes things exciting. What about you, do you like the story of the tooth fairy? #babyteeth #kids #kids #children #toothfairy #attitude #family #camera #photography #365photochallenge #365project #project365 #365_today #Project365 #camera #365photos #photos #daily #dailypics #photooftheday
A stunning specimen of this Nero Denar. Exeptional Portrait, unfortunately a bit off-center.
The most stunning specimen I've seen with my two eyes.
Milan
Benito Mussolini/Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy 1900-1946
Obverse depicts bust of King right. On the reverse is a rider on a leaping horse. For the Exhibition in Milan.
The modern dictator’s name appears infrequently on coins.
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