#bronze coins

[blueiskewl]

Tens of Thousands of Ancient Roman Coins Found off Sardinia

A diver who spotted something metallic not far from Sardinia’s coast has led to the discovery of tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins.

Italy’s culture ministry said Saturday that the diver alerted authorities, who sent divers assigned to an art protection squad along with others from the ministry’s undersea archaeology department.

The coins dating from the first half of the fourth century were found in sea grass, not far from the northeast shore of the Mediterranean island. The ministry didn't say exactly when the first diver caught a glimpse of something metallic just off shore Sardinia, not far from the town of Arzachena.

Exactly how many coins have been retrieved hasn’t been determined yet, as they are being sorted. A ministry statement estimated that there are at least about 30,000 and possibly as many as 50,000, given their collective weight.

“All the coins were in an excellent and rare state of preservation,” the ministry said. The few coins that were damaged still had legible inscriptions, it said.

“The treasure found in the waters off Arzachena represent one of the most important coin discoveries," in recent years, said Luigi La Rocca, a Sardinian archaeology department official.

La Rocca added in a statement that the find is “further evidence of the richness and importance of the archaeological heritage that the seabed of our seas, crossed by men and goods from the most ancient of epochs, still keep and preserve.”

Firefighter divers and border police divers were also involved in locating and retrieving the coins.

The coins were mainly found in a wide area of sand between the underwater seagrass and the beach, the ministry said. Given the location and shape of the seabed, there could be remains of ship wreckage nearby, the ministry said.

[delicate-sketch]

No grave could hold my body down (I'll crawl home to him)

[covenawhite66]

Coins from the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties has been discovered in Jiangsu Province, east China. The coins were strong together with straw ropes and arranged in tidy stacks.

The underground remains were unearthed in Shuangdun Village, Jianhu County of Yancheng City. The pit mouth of the hoard was square, 1.63 meters long, 1.58 meters wide, and 0.5 meters deep. Bronze coins connected in series with straw ropes were neatly layered and paved inside. Most were from the Song Dynasty.

The coin hoard was near the battle frontline of the Song and Jin troops, making the researchers wonder whether the excavation site belonged to a hutted camp.

[yebreed]

Han Dynasty Bronze Money Tree

The most cherished human dream is cast in bronze – the dream of money growing on trees.

Chinese custom associates the money tree with abundance and prosperity. The money tree as a burial item served to ensure that the deceased continue to prosper in the afterlife. Elephants laden with wealth roam along the branches emanating from the trunk. The ensemble of auspicious figurines refers to all kinds of blessings.

Pecuniary symbolism is combined with pretty archaic depictions of phoenixes and taotie-like (饕餮) imagery. The treetop Phoenix is a later modification of the Solar Raven, so the artifact becomes more and more related to the World Tree.

On display in Mianyang Museum (綿陽博物館), Sichuan.

Photo: ©阿诚的白日梦

[lionofchaeronea]

Bronze coin of the ill-fated Roman emperor Geta. Elevated to the rank of Augustus alongside his brother Caracalla in 209 CE by their father, Septimius Severus, he was murdered by Caracalla less than a year after Septimius' death in 211. On the obverse, the bust of Geta; on the reverse, the temple of Petra (in present-day Jordan), showing a statue of Tyche (Fortune). Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

[ancientorigins]

Discover how a carrot harvest in Fife, Scotland, led to the extraordinary find of ancient coins dating back to the 15th-century. A detectorist's patience pays off in a remarkable glimpse into Scotland's past.

[artifacts-archive]

Coin Portraying Queen Cleopatra I as the Goddess Isis

Greek; minted in Paphos, Cyprus, 146-127 BCE, issued by Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II

[thesilicontribesman]

Iron Age Dobunnic Coin Pellet Tray Fragments, Bagendon, Corinium Museum, Cirencester

[chewchuck]

ough trying to decide how much japanese terminology i can feasibly use in this fic when it’s like. only LOOSELY based in tokugawa japan…………..

[buzz-stims]

nami (one piece) stimboard for MEEEEE <3333 i love her so much shes so special

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[blueiskewl]

2,000-Year-Old Bronze Coins Unearthed in Xi'an, China

A new batch of relics, including thousands of bronze coins, have been unearthed from the remains of a mint dating back more than 2,000 years in Xi'an, the capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Apart from the coins of different face values and shapes, more than 100 ash pits, three house ruins, 11 kiln ruins, 18 wells, and three smelting and casting ruins have been unearthed.

Judging from their shapes and structures, all relics date back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 25). Some belonged to the short-lived period under the reign of Wang Mang between AD 9 and 23, also called the Xin Dynasty, according to Zhang Jianfeng, a researcher with the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

Zhang said the mint was a national-level one. Xi'an used to be the capital of the Western Han Dynasty when the city was called Chang'an.

In December 2015, archaeologists from the CASS Institute of Archaeology and Xi'an's institute of cultural relics protection and archaeology jointly launched the excavation work of the site.

The latest round of excavation started in March 2021.

The discoveries are of great significance to the study of coinage technology and the changes in monetary and economic policies of that time, said Zhang.

[anchovy]

I still think one of the craziest things I learned in art school is that a lot of the marble sculptures from old Greek times are duplicates of the original bronze sculptures that were melted down for armor and weapons

[flagmeanew]

Flags in order: Left to Right, Top Row then Bottom Row

Damascean - A gender term in which describes a layered pattern to one’s gender identity, often holding at least 5 layers and can reach to well over 1000 layers.

Base Example of Damascean

Gold (Damascened) Damascean - A Damascean gender that was inlaid with gold in a damascening process

Bronze (Damascened) Damascean - A Damascean gender that was inlaid with bronze in a damascening process

Silver (Damascened) Damascean - A Damascean gender that was inlaid with silver in a damascening process

Banner Example of Damascean

Pronounced as Dah-mass-ee-an Comprised of the word Damascus and -ean Coined by k.mp4 Flags (Simplified, technically) by k.mp4

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[asclepyus]

I have too many servants I love and not enough grails a tale in 2 images

[usedlittlegems-blog]

A 1919 H, George V #Heaton #Mint #Penny #Coin. Available on #ebay. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125941726238?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=GUJF81HBQwa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=GUJF81HBQwa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=TW

[ancientorigins]

Old bottle caps and rusty nails aren’t the only things metal detectorists can find. Sometimes amateur treasure hunters make a big haul. Such was the case with the Killingholme Treasure, a collection of over 4000 Roman coins minted by the Roman Empire almost 1700 years ago.