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I share numismatic information & images I enjoy.. Participant in #SaturdayNightCoinShow, #TokenTuesday #MondayMedal On Mastodon: @CoinOfNote@historians.social

Australia
Joined May 2018
The newsletter is very late this fortnight, but I'm about to board a long flight home, so it will be even later. In the meantime, can you guess this tricky small coin? Let us know, and don't forget to sign up for the newsletter to find out the answer! coinofnote.com/newsletter/
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Can you guess the Mystery Coin? #WhatIsIt? Tell us! It's a bronze coloured coin. "1" between two ... towers?, "Kobo" below. Don't forget to subscribe to the fortnightly newsletter to find out the answer (& next #MysteryCoin first! coinofnote.com/newsletter/ #Numismatics #Coins
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An interesting pieces in this week's E-Sylum about how ancient Roman lead pollution can be tied to coins: coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28… - It is (or was) terrible for the Romans, but fascinating to see how things like this can be traced back. #Numismatics #News #Rome #History
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Bismuth is one of my favourite metals. I wrote about it last year: coinofnote.com/1oz-bismuth-i… If you enjoyed that & a little science, you may like this video by The Action Lab on the strange #magnetism of #Bismuth: youtube.com/watch?v=g-77EcyI… He does a lot of great #science videos.
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Who guessed this fortnight's #MysteryCoin? It was a 1988 #Ecuador 50 Centavos: coinofnote.com/1988-ecuador-… Learn about the country with a river coming down a mountain on their coat of arms! What is your favourite landscape on a coat of arms? #Numismatics #SaturdayNightCoinShow
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This is an ad & you could make one cheaper, but I do like the idea - imagine a penny set, each with a picture of something from that year. Have you ever done or seen anything similar? #SaturdayNightCoinShow #Numismatics #CoinCollecting #History
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A #Medallion for a very Happy Valentines Day to all!
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I need to work on the next newsletter soon, but first, a reminder about this fortnight's #MysteryCoin - it is a small round silver-coloured coin with "50" in a striped square, CENTAVOS below & "50" in small braille dots below that.  Where / when might it be from? #Numismatics
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On this day in 1794, the first sitting of the United States Senate opened to the public. With the order this week to stop production of the US Cent, here is one I like, the 1857 "Flying Eagle" cent: coinofnote.com/1857-usa-cent… #Numismatics #History #CoinCollecting #OnThisDay
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For #TokenTuesday, here is a ferry token from Sweden, with an unusual value. Let's visit "The Venice of the North" in today's post: coinofnote.com/sweden-45-ore… #Ferry #Ferries #History #Numismatics #Exonumia #Token #Tokens
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On this day 400 years ago, the city of New Amsterdam, now New York, was incorporated. Here is a song which references that: youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kC… And my Byzantine Follis which references the song: coinofnote.com/518-27-justin… #SaturdayNightCoinShow #Numismatics #CoinCollecting
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And did you guess last fortnight's #MysteryCoin? Only a couple did. The coin was the 1975 Iceland 1 Króna. Come on a journey to where the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates meet: coinofnote.com/1975-iceland-… #Numismatics #Coins #CoinCollecting #SaturdayNightCoinShow
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I haven't posted an #AncientCoin / #AncientCoins for #SaturdayNightCoinShow in awhile, so lets remedy that now. Here is a #Roman #Coin from 324-329 AD, under emperor Constantine showing a nice "camp gate" theme: coinofnote.com/324-329-ad-co… #Numismatics #History #Histodons
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Exciting #avian news today for those who enjoyed the Australian Ground #Parrots #Medallions set. ABC #news reports "Second-ever elusive night #parrot egg discovered in the Kimberley". The news: abc.net.au/news/2025-02-01/s… The medallions: coinofnote.com/2024-australi… #Numismatics #birds
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