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I'm excited to announce the Literature section on Numista!
A collaborative catalog for numismatic books, periodicals, and articles. Explore 3,100+ references and growing, or contribute your own.
Together, we're building the ultimate numismatic bibliography.
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Drop into the Museum, step up to our touch wall and do some #origami.
Unfold this elephant to reveal a Congolese bank note—with an elephant on it, of course.
We have over 400 artifacts to explore on our touch wall, one of the biggest in Canada🍁. #WorldElephantDay🐘
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It’s #CatDay🐱 and we had to dig deep to find a Canadian🍁 coin with one on it.
Not your cuddly housecat, it’s a bobcat.
This fellow was produced by renowned Canadian artist Alex Colville for Canada’s centennial commemorative coins.
ALT Coin, silver, tarnished with the side view of a trotting wild cat.
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This coin shows a version of Kenojuak Ashevak’s “The Red Owl.”
Her initials are in Inuktitut syllabics, the first time seen on a circulating coin.
Part of a millennium series, this coin represents our Northern heritage.
#FactoidFriday #NIHM2024
ALT Coin, silver colour, an enlarged owl standing head facing forward in front of a polar bear in profile.
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An interesting bit of numismatic iconography for #WorldSeaTurtleDay:
“Aegina depicted images of sea turtles on their coins when the island was the supreme sea power among the Greek city-states. The sea turtle…represented its naval strength & resiliency. After its defeat by Athens in 458 BCE, Aegina ceased using the sea turtle and substituted the land tortoise to symbolize its lost sea power.”
- via @artinstitutechi
1. silver stater depicting a sea turtle
510-485 BCE
Ancient Greek, minted in Aegina
artic.edu/artworks/142732/st…
2. silver stater depicting a land tortoise
404-350 BCE
Ancient Greek, minted in Aegina
artic.edu/artworks/9648/stat…
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ALT composite image, 4 views: two silver coins, obverse and reverse of each, with the sea turtle on the obverse of the first coin and the land tortoise on the obverse of the second coin
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Based on the Numista tags, the top 5 animals on coins are:
1/ Birds - 9398 coins
2/ Horses and equines - 6272
3/ Cats and felines (incl. lions) - 4812
4/ Eagles - 4176
5/ Fantasy animals - 2972.
Note that tagging is not systematic, especially if the lion is part of coats of arms.
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ANZAC day is one of the most solemn days in Australia, commemorating the first great battle Australia took part in as a nation - the storming of the beach in what is now known as "ANZAC Cove", Türkiye.
Lest, we forget.
ALT "THE ANZACS" above the "Rising Sun badge" as worn by Australian forces during both world wars" with "LEST WE FORGET" below
ALT "THE ANZACS" above a military bugler above the date "APRIL 25, 1915"
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Getting ready for #AtoZchallenge
Follow these and enjoy the April A to Z bloghop!
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6 kreuzer 1675 in my collection. Bishopric of Olmütz, Moravia, Olomouc, Czech republic.
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@CoinOfNote 👀 for #OwlishMonday
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Another interesting coin is the US Kennedy half dollar, initially minted in 1964 as a commemoration of the president assassinated in 1963, and which became the standard design for half dollars until today. en.numista.com/catalogue/pie…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenned…
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According to Numista data, the longest-running commemorative coin is the FAO 25-Franc coin from West Africa, which has been minted continually from 1980 to 2022 (en.numista.com/catalogue/pie…).
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NEW AT ARCHIVE.ORG: A photo collection of more than 1,400 historic coins from all over the world, dating from 1643 to 2015.
Shown here is a Hesse-Cassel 1/24 Thaler from 1788: archive.org/details/hesse-ca…
🪙Explore the full collection: archive.org/details/valley-o…
ALT Silver coin with a lion standing on its hind legs, looking left. Hesse Cassel 1/24 Thaler km 529 1788 DF