Mesembria, originally a Thracian settlement known as Menebria, became a Greek colony when settled by Dorians from Megara at the beginning of the 6th century BC, and was an important trading centre from then on and a rival of Apollonia (Sozopol). Remains from the Hellenistic period include the acropolis, a temple of Apollo, and an agora. A wall which formed part of the fortifications can still be seen on the north side of the peninsula. Bronze and silver coins were minted in the city from the 5th century BC and gold coins from the 3rd century BC. The town fell under Roman rule in 71 BC, yet continued to enjoy privileges such as the right to mint its own coinage. It is now the city of Nesebar in Bulgaria. If you're European you might know it better as the city just south of Sunny Beach. I don't actually remember when I bought this coins, but I've always really liked the design. The Crested Helmet is, of course, one of the most recognizable ancient Greek symbols, and I also like the symmetrical and aesthetically pleasing reverse with MEΣΑ inside the spokes of a wheel.
boardgamegeek.com
**Bios:Megafauna** starts where the predecessor game Bios:Genesis left off, with the invasion of the land on the daybreak of the Phanerozoic eon. Starting as either a plant, mollusk, insect, or vertebral skeletal type, your flapping, paddling, and squawking carnivores and herbivores make a beachhead on one of the drifting continental plates in the Cambrian, Their struggle for terrestrial dominance may eventually include language-based consciousness. Although this achievement elevated a certain mammal species to notoriety, in your game things may occur differently. This second edition of Bios:Megafauna is an evolutionary descendant of American Megafauna but as a part of the Bios series of games it is linked to the game Bios:Genesis. It plays well independently but if you have both games you can let the end state of a game of Bios:Genesis affect the starting state of a game of Bios:Megafauna. A successor game, called Bios:Origins (which would be a descendant of Origin), is planned to cover the events of the Quaternary period including the rise of ideas and technology.
This is a fine little bronze issue struck in Antioch in modern day Syria under Flavius **Delmatius**, a Caesar of the Roman Empire and member of the Constantinian dynasty. Delmatius was the nephew of Constantine I. His father, also named Flavius Delmatius, was the half-brother of Constantine and served as censor. He was the brother of Hannibalianus. On 18 September 335, Delmatius the younger was raised to the rank of Caesar, with the control of Thracia, Achaea and Macedonia. He died in late summer 337, killed by his own soldiers. It is possible that his death was related to the purge that hit the imperial family at the death of Constantine, and organized by Constantius II with the aim of removing any possible claimant to imperial power other than the sons of the late emperor. ------- **Obverse:** FL DELMATIVS NOB C **Reverse:** GLORIA EXCERCITVS, two soldiers standing facing each other, each resting on spear and shield, a standard between them 15mm and 1.35g
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 73%
Putting feet there like it's a totally vanilla thing 😐
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
Sure, that sounds awesome 🙂 where're you going to scrape data from? Does PCS or FirstCycling have an API to hook into?
**Obverse:** IMP CM Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, cuirassed bust with radiate head right **Reverse:** DACIA , Dacia standing left, holding draco standart ---- I have a couple of these silver coins celebrating the (re)conquest of Dacia, modern day Romania, under Trajan Decius. Dacia had been invaded by the Carpi from the 230s and forward, until the Philip I sent Decius to deal with them around 245 AD. He finally stabilized the area around 248 AD, and his troops then acclaimed him emperor. A short civil war ensued, Philip was killed near Verona in AD 249, and Decius was recognized by the Senate. He would rule for only a couple of years as he and his son were killed by Goths at the [Battle of Abritus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Abritus) in 251 AD. Dacia is holding a so-called Draco-standart, which was apparently a dragon-like battle-standard used by the Dacians. When they attacked on horseback, the flow of air would create a sort of frightening howl. Dacian horsemen were also used in the legions, and famously a company of Dacian horsemen with a Draco-standard were stationed in the UK close to Wales. Some people believe that the legend of King Arthur the Dragon grew from these Dacian knights being the only law and order around after the Romans left. Who knows, maybe they inspired the Welsh dragon too.
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
Thank you! Just printed on a regular printer, cut out, and applied with milk 😁
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
Alright, sounds fine then :) I know many authentic coins can seem cast, especially on pictures. When you have them in hand they usually seem fine.
That aside, I've always really liked tetrarchy-coins. There's just something about the regularity of portraits and the style which speaks to me, and underlines that the Tetrarchy was a definite and important break from the chaos of the 3rd century.
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
Nice obverse. Where did you get it?
To me it looks a little bit like a cast copy, but it's always hard to tell from a picture and if you know it's from a legit source I am sure it's fine.
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
That's a lot of special equipment & artillery. I wonder if they're doing a combined push & interdiction campaign in the south and how that would work.
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
Jeg overvejer Terry Pratchett som det næste, jeg skal bare lige finde ud af, hvor jeg skal starte, nogen forslag?
Jeg synes der er stor forskel på tidlig Pratchett og sen Pratchett. De tidlige bøger er klassiske og tydelig satire over fantasygenren, men er ikke så medrivende på personsiden, synes jeg. Historierne er bedre i de senere bøger, og hans Tiffany Aching-serie er decideret glimrende som børne-ungdomslitteratur. Så det kommer nok lidt an på hvad du leder efter.
Rent kvalitetsmæssigt vil jeg rate de forskellige story-archs sådan her:
- Tiffany Aching (The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, og The Shepherd's Crown)
- Moist von Lipwig (Going Postal, Making Money, Raising Steam)
- City Watch (Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch , Thud! og Snuff)
- Witches (Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, Carpe Jugulum)
- Death (Mort, Reaper Man, Soul Music, Hogfather, Thief of Time)
- Rincewind (The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery)
Men - der er også en point i, at man i de første bøger får en masse worldbuilding som de senere bøger så bygger på. Så selvom jeg personligt synes Rincewind-archen er den svageste rent litterært, så er der også en værdi i at læse bøgerne i den rækkefølge de er skrevet.
Du kan også følge nogle af de forskellige online-guides:
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
Jeg har tænkt mig at give Baldurs Gate 3 et skud I denne uge. Ellers har jeg spillet lidt brætspil, fx Neanderthal af Eklund. På TV ser vi Babylon Berlin for tiden, det er overraskende godt.
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
The obverse (front) reminds me a little bit of this coin, with three emperors standing. But I don't see the usual M-reverse, I don't really know if it's a match.
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
Hi :)
So the first coin is definitely not Roman - but I am not certain what it is, as it's not my specialty. I think it's an indian coin from the Mughal empire. Weight and diameter, both to .1 digits, would make it easier to get closer. That would technically make it a modern coin, although it is of course still quite old. Think 15-th 16th century. But similar coins were also struck up until the 19th century.
The second coin is in a little bit too bad of a shape for me to really recognize. I think it's unlikely that it's Roman, but if it is I'd guess the byzantine empire from around the 6th century, as it looks vaguely like the crude coins struck by the caliphate after they conquered the levant from the Byzantines.
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
Thank you! This was cabbage which I'd left around for the winter, and it'd just started sprouting these small leaves in the early early spring. Tiny and very colourful.
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 66%
If I could I wouldn't be posting this thread, would I ;)
... to post race threads & result threads for at least all WT-races. Does anyone have the skills to run a bot like this? I often want to throw a quick comment as a race is going on, but creating a race thread or a result thread is a LOT of work and it keeps me from engaging. I think this is what we need to make this community grow.
This is a follis - at this point in time a small bronze coin with thin silvering - stuck in Thessalonica in Greece in AD 324. 18mm and 3.3g. **Obverse:** CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left **Reverse:** VOT/·/X in three lines within wreath, TSBVI I have it noted down as RIC VII 128 - which I suppose is true enough, but RIC (Roman Imperial Coinage) is a reference which few people have actual access to, so many dealers and collectors just accept whichever number is noted down at face value and don't double check :) VOT X on the reverse refers to a vow to rule for 10 years. In reality, Constantine II was only ruler for 3 years - 337 to 340. This coin was struck when he was 8 years old.
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
Haven't really made many mistakes in my life, so.... red door!
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
Back to the interdiction campaign?
**Sappho** from Mytilene on Lesbos is probably best known for giving her name to being a *lesbian*, but in fact wrote not (only) about love between women, but about love in general. In these fragments about the love of a young man, Atthis. ------ ### On Love and Desire (fragments) I …..You burn me….. II Remembering those things We did in our youth… …Many, beautiful things… III …Again and again…because those I care for best, do me Most harm… IV You came, and I was mad for you And you cooled my mind that burned with longing… V Once long ago I loved you, Atthis, A little graceless child you seemed to me VI Nightingale, herald of spring With a voice of longing…. VII Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature…. VII ………..but you have forgotten me… VIII You and my servant Eros…. IX Like the sweet-apple reddening high on the branch, High on the highest, the apple-pickers forgot, Or not forgotten, but one they couldn’t reach… X Neither for me the honey Nor the honeybee… XI Come from heaven, wrapped in a purple cloak… XII Of all the stars, the loveliest… XIII I spoke to you, Aphrodite, in a dream…. XIV Yet I am not one who takes joy in wounding, Mine is a quiet mind…. XV Like the mountain hyacinth, the purple flower That shepherds trample to the ground… XVI Dear mother, I cannot work the loom Filled, by Aphrodite, with love for a slender boy… ------ The verse measure - the **Sapphic stanza** - consists of three 11-syllable verses of dactyls (long-short-short) and trochees (short-long) followed by a short five-syllable final verse. What greater honor can there be for a poet than to have a type of verse named after you? She was one of the 9 poets who were studied in the classical academies for almost 1000 years. Plato, who lived 200 years after Sappho, called her 'the tenth muse', and Horace - 500 years after her death - considered her almost divine. The poet Catullus, who is still read in our time, became widely famous for his translations of Sappho's poems. Unfortunately for all of us, the vast majority have been lost. However, in the last 15 years more and more fragments of her poems are coming to light due to new technology for analyzing fragile papyrus fragments. New poems by Sappho are therefore periodically published - approximately 2600 years after they were written. Isn't it wonderful how her poetry can create an emotional connection to a woman who lived before the Romans even got out of bed? ### The Coin The coin is a silver Diobol struck 400-350 BC in Mytilene. 10mm, 1.31g. **Obverse:** Laureate head of Apollo right **Reverse:** MYTI. Head of Aphrodite or Sappho right; uncertain symbol to left; all within incuse circle Personally, I find it appropriate that we do not know whether the reverse features one of the greatest love poets of all time - or the god of love she usually invokes in her poems.
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
Right. Well, it shows the right way up in all other photo clients, desktop, web, android.... so it's not like I can even edit and flip it :/
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 66%
All kids are real kids. Maybe the kids you know are just dumber than this guys kids 😂
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
https://www.comptoirdesmonnaies.com/
Small coin shop in Boulogne sur Mer, just happened to pass by it with the kids.
coinweek.com
A perspective from coinweek on ancient coin collection, specifically I suppose on choosing a collection focus. My own collecting is not focused per se, I collect what I find cool. Still, over the years some themes have emmerged: * I like coins of **Philip I the Arab** because they are affordable in good grade and have many cool reverses * I like **small greek coins** because they often feature interesting gods and other themes and the variety is so great * I like coins from **Rhodes** as they feature a rose and generally look nice
EvilCartyen 1y ago • 100%
Well, jeg synes det giver mere mening at bruge instans-brugeren, men jeg håber da på sigt at vi får persistent brugere på tværs af instanser.
Allerhelst så jeg at mine communities er på den instans jeg støtter og hjælper med at holde i live, men synes ikke feddit.dk er det naturlige sted til mit AncientCoins community 😁
**Miletos** was a Greek city in the area that was called Ionia in antiquity, and which is today part of Turkey. The ruins can be visited near the village of Balat, which lies approximately halfway between the holiday islands of Samos and Rhodes. Like so many other cities in the area, Miletos was founded in prehistoric times, when the Greek tribe called the **Ionians** colonized the area around 1000 BC. The period from around 1100 BC to 800 BC is often called "The Greek Dark Ages" - and it was indeed a dark time following the total collapse of the Mycenaean civilization. But after darkness comes light, and from 800 BC and henceforth the Greek cities of Anatolia were very successful in at least one thing; they had children and the children survived. It is believed that the population increased by a minimum of 4% each year. ### Let's go somewhere nice... All those people needed a place to live, and for the Greeks the solution was clear; colonization. From the 8th to the 6th century BC the Greek peoples - the Ionians, Dorians, Achaeans & Aeolians - founded thousands of cities around the Mediterranean (Fig. 1).  More city-states means more trade, and with more trade comes prosperity. And with prosperity comes the energy and time for other pursuits than toiling for your daily bread. ### The birth Thales - and philosophy And so, in Miletos around 624 BC, Thales was born - a man who can without exaggeration be called one of the most important people who ever lived. You see, Thales had a theory: *Everything - EVERYTHING - is made of water!* The earth obviously floats on water, and earthquakes are when the earth is moved by waves. Blood is water, and without blood you die, trees are water, because they grow when they are watered. If you burn off gas, it turns into water, and fog condenses into water. Metal is also a type of water, because when it is heated it melts, and water can clearly condense into earth - you could see this in real time when you looked at the river Meander and how the water over the years condensed and created new earth. To our modern minds, it seems absurd, of course. But you need to understand that Thales is the first (at least in the Western tradition) to even consider explaining nature without referring to gods and mythology. Who tried to explain nature *with nature*, so to speak. And he attempted to do this without having *a single scientific or philosophical concept* at his disposal. What an intellectual effort In that sense, he is the **first philosopher -** and the **first scientist**. And by the way, he is also considered to be the **first Greek mathematician**. ### The Coin The coin here is a small 9mm silver coin from Miletos, a diobol, with a roaring lion on the front and a sort of star pattern on the back. It weighs only 1.16 grams. **Obverse:** Forepart of lion left, head to right **Reverse:** Stellate pattern within incuse square It was struck somewhere between the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 5th century BC. - that is, while Thales was alive. SNG Kayhan 462-75
I do most of my macro photography with a Nikon d3300 and an old manual lens, a 55/f3.5 Micro-Nikkor P Auto from 1972.
Well, upload won't work it seems.... Sorry
Currently on holiday with the family in France, came across a coin shop and went in to ask if they had ancient coins (not many do). To my delight they did, although in a fairly middle quality. Still, it was priced fairly and to reward the guy for pulling out the stuff for me I bought this Philip I antoninianus with a victory reverse for 30 euro.
store.steampowered.com
**Put on a lizard and go for an adventure!** *Choose your lizard carefully. You can find six different ones scattered across the land, each with its own special ability.* *You'll need these abilities as you make your difficult journey through many dangerous places. Carefully hop your way to the top of an active volcano. Surf down a surging river. Swim an underwater lake. Ascend a snowy mountaintop. What kind of strange creatures will you meet? Can you unravel the mysteries of Lizard?*
No story today :) Just the coin: -------------- **Obverse:** Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right **Reverse:** APTEMΩN / P-O, rose with bud to right, hook to left; all within incuse square. Struck 170-150 BC in Rhodes. Struck to the so-called Plinthophoric standard, under the magistrate Artemon. 13.1mm, 1.16g. Jenkins 50; SNG Helsinki 658. VF
From the BGG description: *Dominant Species is a game that abstractly recreates a tiny portion of ancient history: the ponderous encroachment of an ice age and what that entails for the living creatures trying to adapt to the slowly-changing earth. Each player will assume the role of one of six major animal classes—mammal, reptile, bird, amphibian, arachnid, or insect. Each begins the game more or less in a state of natural balance in relation to one another. But that won’t last: It is indeed "survival of the fittest".* *Through wily action pawn placement, players will strive to become dominant on as many different terrain tiles as possible in order to claim powerful card effects. Players will also want to propagate their individual species in order to earn victory points for their particular animal. Players will be aided in these endeavors via speciation, migration, and adaptation actions, among others.* *All of this eventually leads to the end game—the final ascent of the ice age—where the player having accumulated the most victory points will have his animal crowned the Dominant Species.* *But somebody better become dominant quickly, because it’s getting mighty cold...* ----- This is a comparatively simple wargame-like game which runs for about 4 hours. It is one of my favourite games because it is so simple that I can teach it in 12-20 minutes without consulting the rules - yet it's heavy enough to keep you engaged. You can also play as Lizards :D
If you're not an experienced collector of ancient coins - or not yet a collector at all - finding and buying coins can be a fairly daunting task. As a new collector you should: * **Avoid Ebay until you're more experienced**. It is full of fakes, and positive feedback is meaningless. While you *can* find good deals there, you won't know them unless you have lots of experience. * **Use only trusted sellers** such as those on [vcoins](https://www.vcoins.com/en/) or [MA-shops ](https://www.ma-shops.com/). Vcoins is generally more used in the US, MA-shops is often used in Europe - but many sellers are present on both platforms. They typically all offer a lifetime 100% money back guarantee if a coins is found to be fake after they've sold it to you. Here are some good deals from vcoins to get you started: **Under $30** * This [Licinius I follis](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/tom_vossen/165/product/licinius_i_308324_ad_ae_follis_372_gm_24mm_heraclea_mint_struck_313_ad_ric_73/1909884/Default.aspx) has a pleasing obverse and reverse and a fair price point. * This [Sasanian drachm of Khusro II](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/zurqieh/171/product/sasanian_kingdom_khusru_ii_ad_591628_ar_drachm/1876143/Default.aspx) is a nice large silver coin of one of the most famous Sasanian kings. * This [Constantine I follis](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/tom_vossen/165/product/constantine_i_the_great_307337_ad_ae_follis_224_gm_20mm_cyzicus_mint_struck_3245_ad_ric_34/1909905/Default.aspx) features the popular camp gate reverse. * This [Kyzikos silver hemiobol](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/aegean_numismatics/1/product/mysia_kyzikos_480450_bc_silver_hemiobol/1871479/Default.aspx) has a nice stylized lion reverse and is **really old**, only maybe 150-200 years after the invention of coinage. **$30-50** * This [silver diobol from Miletos](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/savoca_gmbh__co_kg/234/product/ionia_miletos_late_6thearly_5th_century_bc_ar_diobol/1855516/Default.aspx) features a lion mostly on-flan and a really pretty incuse reverse pattern. Also very old :D * A [nice portrait of Aurelian](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/tom_vossen/165/product/aurelian_270275_ad_ae_antoninianus_361_gm_21mm_siscia_mint_struck_272274_ad_ric_225/1907348/Default.aspx), one of the most overlooked emperors. * Speaking of portraits, this [Gordian III](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/tom_vossen/165/product/gordian_iii_238244_ad_ar_antoninianus_345_gm_24mm_rome_mint_struck_240_ad_ric_71_corr/1906989/Default.aspx) has a nice quality to it. * A passable [Hadrian denarius](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/gert_boersema/25/product/hadrian_ad_117138_ar_denarius_18mm_323_g_rome_mint/1905091/Default.aspx) * A [provincial Augustus from Syria](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/zurqieh/171/product/syria_antioch_augustus_ae_22/1894322/Default.aspx) **$50-100** * An [evocative portrait of Trajan](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/zurqieh/171/product/roman_imperial_trajan_silver_denarius/1906398/Default.aspx) * A [heavy syrian silver tetradrachm of Trajan Decius](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/zurqieh/171/product/syria_antioch_trajan_decius_249251_ad_ar_tetradrachm/491393/Default.aspx) * A [lovely Maximinus Thrax](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/tom_vossen/165/product/maximinus_i_thrax_235238_ad_ar_denarius_293_gm_19mm_rome_mint_struck_236_ad_ric_14/1906745/Default.aspx) * A [decent Philip I antoninianus with an Annona reverse](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/london_ancient_coins/89/product/philip_i_244249_ar_antoninianus__r_annona/1806739/Default.aspx) * A [chunky Marcus Aurelius sestertius](https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/savoca_gmbh__co_kg/234/product/marcus_aurelius_161180_sestertius_rome/1900487/Default.aspx) to hold while you read the Medidations perhaps. In general, it is important to do a bit of research before making your first purchase, mainly by comparing coins at the same price point and decising which coin looks better to you. Condition is typically more important than rarity, but there's no formal system to classify what looks good to you. In the end, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and you set your own goals :)
... after today he has won stages in four consecutive grand tours: 2 in TdF, 3 in the Vuelta, and one in the Giro.