This coin was minted circa 206 CE, during the reign of Caracalla. The obverse depicts the laureate head of Caracalla facing right. The reverse type features #Mars, naked save for cloak hanging from his shoulder, holding a branch and spear.
I wrote a short piece on safe #menstruation tracking apps, expanding on a few tweets I posted at the time #RoevWade was overturned. Incidents of testing women for abortion drugs in the UK prompted me to turn it into an article:
This coin was minted circa 206 CE, during the reign of Caracalla. The obverse depicts the laureate head of Caracalla facing right. The reverse type features #Mars, naked save for cloak hanging from his shoulder, holding a branch and spear.
@phistorians Not the best example, but a very rare type of coin from Markianopolis, Moesia Inferior (located in modern Bulgaria). Struck under Commodus between 177 and 192 AD, showing on the reverse, the Three Graces, in a similar pose to the sculpture shown in your post #AncientNumismatics#numismatics
@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@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 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..
On passing counterfeit notes (1826) - a case in which the convicted party ultimately claimed to have purchased them and the box in which they were concealed in "specie and #Quebec bills" from "a man named Page, in Dunham, Lower Canada [Quebec]." We know that cross-border counterfeiting networks existed, though we know relatively little in terms of specifics. #money#history#histodons#CdnHist#HistQC#numismatics#banknotes@histodons
Silver #coin depicting the god #Dionysos sitting in his biga, a chariot drawn by a team of two animals. Dionysos is holding his iconic thyrsos, a staff of giant fennel. #Apollon Kitharoidos, Apollon the kithara player, is sitting beside him. The biga is drawn by a panther and a goat, both of which are animals sacred to Dionysos.
Tetrassarion #coin dated 162/163 CE. The reverse depicts Ares fully dressed in his armour with helmet, shield, and spear. Facing him stands Aphrodite of the Pudicitia type, holding one hand to her genitals and one hand to her breasts.
14 July 1789: Fall of the Bastille. The great #medal by Bertrand Andrieu (1761-1822), which launched his career as a medalist.
The dramatic scene of the crowd storming the fortress was produced & reproduced in various versions.
#3 is from the workshop of James Tassie (1735-1799), known for his reproductions of ancient cameos & some modern medals. His collection was auctioned off in 1882; this piece from further sell-offs of the 1960s
Builidng contractor Pierre-François Palloy (23 January 1755 – 1835), calling himself Patriot Palloy, promptly took advantage of the storming of the Bastille by assuming control over its demolition and selling fragments as souvenirs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Fran%C3%A7ois_Palloy#/media/File:Carnavalet_-_Mod%C3%A8le_r%C3%A9duit_de_la_Bastille_01.jpg)
Here, he adopts Andrieu's scene by using lead from the chains of the Bastille and adding a description to that effect. (1) An original (2) my bronze cast copy