Coin of the Day: Taras is well known for its dolphin rider coins, like this silver didrachm struck in the fifth century B.C. This coin is part of a Heritage Auctions sale of ancient coins in September: https://t.co/R5MY43Mz6m #ThrowbackThursday
UK 🇬🇧 detectorist Lorraine Sansom struck gold on day 2 after harvest! #metaldetecting
Beautiful Cunobelinus stater (AD 8–41).
Proper Celtic #gold beauty 💰
The 1925-S Peace Dollar is plentiful in circulated grades and attainable in Mint State, but high MS grades are rare due to a notoriously weak strike. The finest certified by PCGS are just four examples in PCGS MS65+, with this one realizing $171,562.50 @GreatCollection.
Check your change. Seriously.
This 1966 Washington Quarter was struck on a leftover 90% silver planchet during the shift to copper-nickel clad coinage. That small mistake made this coin sell for $41,480 @stacksbowers. 👀
Was Mithraism so popular among soldiers in the Imperial Roman army because Mithras was the personification of "Inevitable Victory"?
After all, Lion (Autumn) inevitably kills (ends) Bull (Summer)...
Which is what this complex animal calendar marker, found all over Eurasia, depicts.
BTW, Leo originally had nothing to with stars....Autumn starts in Leo, because Jul/Aug, Leo, was when Eurasian lions main mating season starts...Which is why Lion is the symbol of Autumn...
I talked about this in many of my posts https://t.co/g2wGRDr4jx
A 900-year-old Crusader sword. A lost city swallowed by the sea. Ancient skeletons hidden in a cenote 🗡️🌊
Some of the world's most incredible discoveries were found beneath the surface by divers. From shipwreck treasure to forgotten civilizations, these underwater finds prove that every dive has the potential for adventure.
Which discovery would you most want to see for yourself? 👇
Read more: https://t.co/QGXVPWXlUX
The rape of European culture continues while CCTV captures all and the alarms are ringing.
Jewellery worth millions stolen from French glassmaker museum https://t.co/g1WIPM5KVB
Silver Bracelets of Queen Hetepheres I
Some of the earliest silver objects unearthed in Egypt are this rare pair of silver bracelets, belong to Queen Hetepheres I, inlaid with semi-precious stones in the form of a butterfly (silver, turquoise, lapis lazuli, and carnelian).
SILVER JUST RIPPED TO $63.54 🚨
Exploding higher out of the gate and pressing right into the $64 zone.
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