@CoinOfNote@AimeeMaroux Great coin, but I'll see your tetras and raise you a didrachm. From Neapolis, in Campania. With a winged Nike placing a wreath on the man-headed bull, Achelous, on the reverse, and a bust of the nymph Parthenope, daughter of Achelous and the muse Terpsichore, on the front. Struck between 330 and 275 BCE. 😊 #numismatics#AncientCoins
@CoinOfNote@Greenseer Not a river but a horned god: Kyrene and Apollon Karneios or Hermes Parammon depicted on this coin that is supposedly from Kyrene.
Two coins, the first from Gergis, Troas (supposed birthplace of Sibyl), struck between 400 and 241 BCE, and the second from Castulo in Spain struck between 200 and 100 BCE
@Greenseer@AimeeMaroux Ooh, I do have one of those Iberian coins - not in nearly so nice a condition though, but I'll still have to dig it out :) Thank you for sharing!
@Greenseer@AimeeMaroux Very true! Although it seems to be hard to find the coin enthusiasts on here - I'm not sure if they're hiding, or I'm just not looking in the right place yet - and admittedly Mastodon search (or lack thereof) doesn't help :)
@CoinOfNote@AimeeMaroux Well, we aren't exactly a common breed, so, to be honest, I was pleasantly surprised to find the few that there are. Are you following hashtags like #numismatics etc?
@Greenseer@AimeeMaroux yes, while masto's search may be imperfect (but improving - credit where it's due!) The ability to follow hashtags is brilliant. It is still frustrating that if someone from an instance I haven't encountered & no-one else on my instance follows, posts about #numismatics, I actually still won't see it, because my server won't look for it.
@CoinOfNote@AimeeMaroux Personally, I don't really mind exposure to other numismatists here being sporadic. I belong to various coin forums for that. Here, it's a nice surprise when it does occasionally turn up on my timeline, amid the much more diverse posting
@Greenseer@AimeeMaroux I moved my personal account and this one over from the bird site last year. Personal account is great, more interaction and very pleasant. This account though, I feel I'm shouting into the void much of the time. There was a big numismatic community "over there" and most of those I interacted with are still there and seemingly won't move, no matter what musk does there, which is frustrating on several levels
@AimeeMaroux@Greenseer (Star to sympathize rather than like) - like me, your account is more topic-based - I don't know, that just seems harder here. I'm sure it's to do with search / hashtags / reach just not getting as far. There are several topic-list pages, but they want you to have an established committee here to get listed... but I want to get listed to FIND the others interested in the same topic🔎 🫡 I'm hoping this new search will help 🤞
@CoinOfNote@Greenseer I think most people in my niche have not made the move either. On the birdsite I had a mix of scholars, fellow erotica authors and adjacent creators (podcasters, cam girls & boys, sex bloggers, etc.), and mythology and folklore enthusiasts. I feel like there is only a fraction of all of this here and there is no community yet that is easy to find. I hope the new search will make it much easier.
That being said, the biggest myth community has always been on Tumblr, not Twt.
@AimeeMaroux@CoinOfNote fwiw yours is one of my favourite subject specific accounts here. As I wrote earlier, I use coin forums for specifically ancient numismatic stuff, while here on Mastodon, I really appreciate what is added to that core interest by the ephemera of tangentially related interests and expertise brought by others 😊
@Greenseer@AimeeMaroux not sure if that was at one or both of us, but thanks! One thing I like about here / the bird site is people posting "here is a pic of a cool coin I got" or as I try to do "here is a pic of a cool coin and a couple of snippets of info / history behind it". Forums are great for more of a Q&A interaction, but maybe i'm on the wrong ones! There is a good ancient coins group on Facebook
@Greenseer Ah well, it is true, I cannot compete with @AimeeMaroux ! I'm going to have to find more horny man-god coins to make euphemisms about, that at least got engagement for me this week!
@CoinOfNote@AimeeMaroux Not ancient, but some of the satirical tokens of the late 18th, early 19th centuries are fun.. and I have to share this one with another ass on it (the regular one and a 3rd meaning of the word)
People forget, in these Trumpian times, that foolish, corrupt, reckless, tyrannical & nasty US presidents are nothing new. This token pillories Andrew Jackson..
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I saw a beautiful example of your first coin, @Greenseer or one like it -- I think the description said it was Dionysus though.
@taoish@AimeeMaroux@CoinOfNote I know.. and who is humble me to argue with the likes of Harvard website (and all the sites that then copied them 😉)? But considering that the likes of Euripides (and later Ovid) gave very detailed descriptions of the elderly, balding, bearded, satyr, Silenos, in Dionysos's retinue, as riding drunk, backwards, on a donkey, holding a purse of wine, it seems a strange conclusion to draw. I also read them say it could be Hephaistos (which has some basis) 🤷♂️
@AimeeMaroux@taoish@CoinOfNote It's a lovely coin. The tetradrachm version in the same series as the far smaller tetrobol that I posted. Alas, to afford that, I'd have to be far richer than I've any interest in being (tho' perhaps Dionysos wouldn't disapprove so much if I stole it! 😉)
@Greenseer@CoinOfNote Awwww, thanks Greenseer 💚
I only occasionally browse coin forums or museum pages so I am super happy about people like you and CoinOfNote to share their knowledge about a coin or correct me if I'm wrong (sometimes the museum website seems to get it wrong!).
But of course it would be even more fun with more community. Maybe Tumblr will, in fact, federate at some point. That would be cool.
@AimeeMaroux@CoinOfNote I do have a multifaceted personality, and it's a real joy to, in your postings, unite numismatics with one or two of my other interests, rather than keep everything in separate boxes 😉
@AimeeMaroux@Greenseer I created a Bluesky account for (completely unrelated) work and it seems dead over there. Likely it just really depends on how various communities reacted (or didn't) to everything which happened (and still is) at Twitter
@CoinOfNote@Greenseer It seems kinda dead? I mean, lots of my Twitter friends made an account but it seems very few people made it their main. I see mainly the same people posting but then I also miss posts because there's only the main feed and I can't sort people into lists like I can do here or on Twitter. I get much less engagement but I'm also less active myself I guess?
I just wish all the people would come here instead. 😩
@CoinOfNote@Greenseer Did you know that groups work across instances? Everyone following a group will see the post, no matter if the instances know each other yet.
They are easy to set up, just tag something like ancientcoins @ a.gup.pe or type it into the search bar and boom! It exists!
@AimeeMaroux@Greenseer Thank you! I had seen you post your guide but was already setup here and thought I had it covered (oops!) And Yes! Yes! Yes! To weekly hashtags! I've been trying (for coins) to get #SatyrdayNightCoinShow#MedalMonday, #TokenTuesday etc going here :) Hmm ok, groups sound good. Let's see if I can get @numismatics going🤞😄
@CoinOfNote@Greenseer There's always new things to learn but the guide is indeed very basic. The groups thing is probably the most valuable tip!
If it ties in with a mythological theme you can also use the hashtag MythologyMonday. It's not huge but there are a few faithful contributors. And engagement on Twitter has gone to SHIT for that hashtag. Last time I hosted there was mostly ads and very little engagement. Which is a good thing, IMO.
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