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A very happy #Shrove Tuesday to everyone. #Pancake Day, the day before #Lent starts.

We just ate ours, but apparently in Guernsey, you can run with them! (I haven't had much success running this year, I think it's best to sit down and eat them!)

But, for fans of Quirky British Traditions - here is: Pancake Racing, coin edition!

https://en.numista.com/473959

#numismatics #ShroveTuesday #Coins #CoinCollecting

Reverse
Two women racing with pancakes

Script: Latin

Lettering:
PANCAKES RACING
TWO POUNDS

Engraver: Jo Goodberry

Happy Lunar New Year to those who celebrate. This year is the year of the horse. So, I had a look through my horse coins and couldn't go past the time I had to colour in a horse on a coin! From #Ancient #Rome: https://coinofnote.com/360-a-d-rome-ae-3-fel-temp-reparatio/

#coin #numismatics #CoinCollecting #AncientCoin #history #histodons #LunarNewYear #horse @histodons @histodons

Reverse
Helmeted soldier in military dress standing left, spearing falling horseman from right hand; sometimes shield on ground at right or shield in left hand of standing soldier. Horseman wearing Phrygian helmet, raising left hand to defend, lying on back of his horse turned right on ground.
Mint and officina marks in exergue.

Script: Latin

Lettering: FEL TEMP REPARATIO

Unabridged legend: Felix Temp Reparatio.

Translation: Happy times are restored

I miss the stamps curators on Twitter sometimes..

#stamps #history #Numismatics

It's nearly Coin of Note Newsletter time! Get your guesses in for this fortnight's #MysteryCoin! And don't forget to subscribe to the #Newsletter to be first to hear the answer: https://coinofnote.com/newsletter/

#Coins #CoinCollecting #Numismatics #Guess #WhatIsIt @numismatics

A copper coloured coin with a large leaf taking up most of the space and a 1

Inde India Fiscal Cash certificate encashed in East Pakistan Rare www.cpaphil.com/prod... #India #EastPakistan #FiscalHistory #CashCertificate #RareDocument #VintageFinance #HistoricalIndia #PakistanHistory #AntiquePaper #Numismatics #PhilatelyAndFinance #ColonialHistory

Inde India Fiscal Cash certificate encashed in East Pakistan Rare

https://www.cpaphil.com/products/inde-india-fiscal-cash-certificate-encashed-in-east-pakistan-rare

#India #EastPakistan #FiscalHistory #CashCertificate #RareDocument #VintageFinance #HistoricalIndia #PakistanHistory #AntiquePaper #Numismatics #PhilatelyAndFinance #ColonialHistory

Happy Valentine's Day from Coin of Note, to you!

There are many coins which celebrate love and valentines day - most of which are non-circulating, collector silver coins. Instead, I've gone with a "trinket" piece, literally, a token of love :)

Spend time with those you love, rather than just money today :)

#ValentinesDay #Valentine #ValentinesDay2026 #Love #CoinCollecting #Coins #Numismatics #OnThisDay @numismatics

A red coin with cupid and hearts and text "Happy Valentines Day" on three lines.

Coin with text "I love you" in many languages on a red background and two decorative hearts, one with a blue heart in the centre.

Happy 60th anniversary of Changeover Day (Australia). 🎵🎶In come the dollars and in come the cents
to replace the pounds and the shillings and the pence.🎶🎵

Here's a piece I wrote on one of the last Australian pennies, saved as a keyring: https://coinofnote.com/1963-australian-penny-keyring/

Here's a blog Michelle J Morgan wrote on the song: https://michellejmorgan.com.au/blog/on-the-14th-of-february-1966/

And here's the Royal Australian Mint's article on today, with description of the coin design released this year to commemorate it: https://www.ramint.gov.au/about-us/whats-new/2026-sixty-years-australian-decimal-currency

#Numismatics #CoinCollecting #Currency #Changeover #Decimal #Coins #History #Histodons @numismatics @histodons

Reverse
Kangaroo above date and value.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
AUSTRALIA
KG
1958
PENNY.

Engraver: George Kruger Gray

Designer: George Kruger Gray

This particular example has been gilt and placed in a leather keyring

Mint flier showing the coin with "Design elements from all eight of Australia's standard circulating coins released since 1966", "60 year celebration centrepiece" and "Privymark" highlighted. Description of the coin itself (from Numista):
Reverse
A montage of each of the animals that have appeared on Australian circulating definitive coins. Featherglider, Frill Neck Lizard, Emu, Lyrebird, Kangaroo, Echidna & Platypus.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
AUSTRALIAN DECIMAL CURRENCY
60
YEARS
C
ONE DOLLAR

I just shared currency's post of the Uzbekistan Soʻm featuring an image of the 10 Soʻm coin and linking to the Wikipedia article about the currency. I wrote a post about that coin on my blog awhile back: https://coinofnote.com/2001-uzbekistan-10-so%ca%bbm/

If you read the Wikipedia article, did I miss anything important I should cover on a future post about Uzbekistan currency?

#numismatics #CoinCollecting #coins @numismatics

Obverse
National Coat of Arms, date below

Script: Latin

Lettering:
OʻZBEKISTON MARKAZIY BANKI
2001

Translation: Central Bank of Uzbekistan

Reverse
Map of Uzbekistan, denomination left

Script: Latin

Lettering:
10
SOʻM

#500CharAbstracts: S. Krmnicek and K. Körner introduce *Graveler*, a serious game designed for teaching numismatics. By combining playful interaction with structured academic content, students can actively explore coins, their imagery, and historical contexts.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1572.c23242

This chapter forms part of a larger volume on Digital Methods of Learning and Teaching in Archaeology, published in 2025: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1572

#Numismatics #SeriousGames #Archaeology

Roman town house with the dipinto “Romanes Eunt Domus” (Level “Roman metal extraction and minting”).

While my knowledge of American football is .... limited, there is a numismatic link for the game I can appreciate - a special coin for the coin toss! Renown numismatist Jeff Garrett helped create a restrike of the Libertas Americana medal with the NFL logo and "HEADS" and "TAILS" on its respective sides for the toss coin. Read more: https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n06.html#article16

Also pictured, the original Libertas Americana medal from 1781 today's piece is based off. Images & description of that piece from Numista: https://en.numista.com/65432

I hope your team won!

#Numismatics #News #SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #Coins #CoinCollecting #NewEngland #NewEnglandPatriots #patriots #Seattle #SeattleSeaHawks @numismatics

Original 1781 Libertas Americana medal:

Obverse
Flowing hair Liberty left
cap on pole right
date in ex.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
LIBERTAS . AMERICANA.

4 JUIL. 1776.

Engraver: Augustin Dupré

Original 1781 Libertas Americana medal:
Reverse
America is depicted as an infant Hercules, strangling two serpents representing the armies of Burgoyne and Cornwallis. He is defended by France, represented as the warrior-goddess Minerva, clad in breastplate and plumed helmet, holding a shield bearing the fleurs de lys of France. She fends off the British lion, which stands with its forepaws upon her shield, its tail between its rear legs, a heraldic symbol of defeat.
Dates in exergue.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
NON SINE DIIS ANIMOSUS INFANS.
DUPRE
____________
17 1777.
OCT.
19 1781.

Engraver: Augustin Dupré

Via a Bsky post by @ewg118 I see that there's been "A nice update for modern-era numismatists: place of issue (place of intended circulation, as opposed to production) is now a mappable layer throughout the ANS collection and other Numishare projects, thanks to Geonames integration"

https://numishare.blogspot.com/2026/02/place-of-issue-mappable-in-mantis.html

#numismatics

Forging coins isn't new - this E-Sylum article covers some of the most ancient forgers: https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n05.html#article19

I've previously written about my own Augustus Denarius "Fouree" from ancient Rome:
https://coinofnote.com/19-b-c-rome-augustus-denarius-fouree/

Pictured: Some Ancient Staters from the article, and my Denarius Fouree.

#Numismatics #CoinCollecting #AncientCoins #History #Histodons @numismatics @histodons

Three coins, a genuine Gallic War Stater and two Forgeries with slight differences in diameter, weight and imagery.

Augustus facing right with AVGV text visible, as well as damage and the inner core of the coin

Ok #SaturdayNightCoinShow people, here is this fortnight's #MysteryCoin. As I work on writing up a post about it... what IS it?

#Coins #CoinCollecting #Numismatics @numismatics fedigroups.social

A silver coloured coin with an animal, thicker at the front than the back, facing left. Text below: "5y" with another line below that

Alaska Rare Coins in Fairbanks has issued a new gold token from metal mined by Quasar Gold Corp.

Limited to just 17 pieces of 1.55517 grams, they retail for $190 USD each. Details from Coin World: https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/alaska-gold-used-for-2025-token-production?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Lyris&utm_campaign=PreciousMetals

#numismatics #Gold #CoinCollecting #SaturdayNightCoinShow @numismatics

obverse of gold token with an ore cart in the middle and QUASAR GOLD CORP. hand punched around the edge. background shoes the reverse with a miner’s shovel and pickax at the 6 o’clock position with SHIRLEY BAR MINE inscribed around. At the center is the weight reflected as 1/DWT, meaning pennyweight, which translates to 1.55517 grams.

This week's E-Sylum has the interesting story of the first Bulgarian banknote, issued on the 1st of August 1885: https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n04.html#article21

#Numismatics #Banknotes #CoinCollecting #History #Histodons @numismatics @histodons

Close up of about half of the 1885 Bulgaria 20 Leva Zlato banknote. Full side shows:

The coat of arms in the left upper corner

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
Двадесетъ Лева
Българска Народна Банка
Въ замѣна на тая банкнота Българската Народна Банка плаща предявителю двадесетъ лева злато
София, 1 август 1885
За подправка виновнитѣ се наказватъ споредъ законъ

Translation:
Twenty Leva
Bulgarian National Bank
In exchange of this banknote the The Bulgarian National Bank pays the bearer twenty leva gold
Sofia, 1 august 1885
For forgery the guilty are punished according to the law

Designer: Georgi Yakovlev Kirkov

New technical bloggage from @ewg118 : "Improving searchability using Natural Language Processing and Wikidata"

https://numishare.blogspot.com/2026/01/improving-searchability-using-natural.html

> The Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit and FastAPI form the foundation for new, major improvements in the searchability of various numismatic projects, beginning with American Numismatic Society type corpora such as OCRE and Hellenistic Royal Coinages. These improvements currently apply to all online type corporate published by the ANS and are slowly reindexing in the ANS collections database, MANTIS, to improve large swath's of the ANS's collection of Greek and Roman coins that have been linked to these coin type URIs. This work began in the fall and was finally put into production over the course of December 2025.

#NLP #Wikidata #python #DH #numismatics #ancientHistory

Rare Celtic gold coins found in Swiss bog may reveal ancient ritual offerings

Two extremely rare Celtic gold coins that were found in a woodland near Arisdorf in northwestern Switzerland are providing new information about the early phases of coinage in the area and ritual practices dating back more than 2,000 years...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/rare-celtic-gold-coins-found-in-swiss-bog/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #celts #CelticCoin #numismatics

Rare Celtic gold coins found in Swiss bog may reveal ancient ritual offerings

Two extremely rare Celtic gold coins that were found in a woodland near Arisdorf in northwestern Switzerland are providing new information about the early phases of coinage in the area and ritual practices dating back more than 2,000 years. The gold coins were found in a follow-up survey and date back to around the middle and second half of the 3rd century BCE, making them among the oldest known Celtic coins found in Switzerland...

Here's a coin which looks better in hand than in my poor photos. Rome, 336 - 342 AD.

Two soldiers holding spiers and shields, military standard between them.

Issued under a few different emperors, I can get "constans" as the start of the obverse inscription, and between that and the portrait, I'm going with "Constans" but happy to be cvorrected (and happy for a mint if anyone can read that in the exergue of the reverse (under the soldiers)).

https://www.tesorillo.com/aes/030/030i.htm

#Numismatics #CoinCollecting #SaturdayNightCoinShow @numismatics fedigroups.social