Coin of Giyath al-Din Kay-Khosraw II, made in Turkey in 1244 (source).
March 29, 2013
February 20, 2013
Greek, Tetradrachm of Ephesos, 387-301 BC (source).
February 3, 2013
February 2, 2013
Celtic silver tetradrachm from the first century BC depicting a horseman with three horns sprouting from his head. Found in the Danube region.
Actually, I think this is one of the Epona figure coins. The “horseman” has breasts, after all. What I would like to know about this coin is… What are those constellation looking symbols?
Also, yay for a date and a location! :)
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January 17, 2013
Silver drachm with young male heads, made in Istros, Mysia Inferior, c.400-200 BC (source).
November 30, 2012
Silver Celtic Iceni unit
Britain, 1st century A.D.
The Iceni were a British tribe inhabiting the area around Norfolk from the 1st century B.C. to approximately the end of the 1st century A.D. They started using coins as a means of payment at around 10 B.C. This particular coin has a stylized horse depicted on it. Other coins would have equally stylized versions of animals.
Source: The Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
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October 6, 2012
An unknown world aspires toward reflection. Words are the oblique mirrors that hold your thoughts. You gaze into these word-mirrors and catch glimpses of meaning, belonging, and shelter. Behind their bright surfaces is the dark and the silence. Words are like the god Janus, they face outward and inward at once.
—John O’Donohue, Anam Ċara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (Cliff Street Books, 1997).
Thank you, apoetreflects.
August 31, 2012
Silver Cistophorus of Mark Antony
Roman, c.40 BC
Minted at Ephesos
Showing Mark Antony as the god Dionysos and commemorating his marriage to Octavia.
On the reverse Octavia’s bust is shown in the traditional reverse of a cistophorus (a chest with snakes. On the obverse shows Antony in the ivy crown of Dionysos and listing his titles.
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July 19, 2012
Chester A. Beach (1881–1956)Hudson-Fulton Dollar 1909Full female figure arms outstretched New York skyline faintly in background
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July 17, 2012
Copper alloy trade tokens, coffee house tokens. The inscription reads: ‘Coffee Tobacco Sherbet tea and Chocolat retail’d in Exchange Ally’Date 1601 - 1700
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July 16, 2012
Greek, Dekadrachm of Syracuse, c.470-465 BC (source). On one side is the head of Arethusa surrounded by dolphins, on the other a charioteer driving a quadriga with Nike flying above and a lion below.
July 7, 2012
An English magic sigil or device found in Devil’s Dyke ~16th Century
(Source: tagaoth, via the-broom-cupboard)
June 28, 2012
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March 26, 2012
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College students of Japanese ancestry who have been evacuated from Sacramento, 1942.
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Torii Kiyonaga
Japanese, 1752-1815First Meeting (Miai) from the series Twelve Stages of Matrimony (Konrei juni...
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Tokyo Apartment designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects in Tokyo,Japan
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Marina City by Atelier Teee on Flickr.
