Numismatic Victoria

The Numismatic Association of Victoria, founded in 1946, is a coin club based in Melbourne. We hold monthly meetings & issue the Victorian Numismatic Journal.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

The highest numerical value banknote ever issued was the one hundred million billion pengő note. It was worth about $0.20.

[ACANS @ACANSMQ]

NUMISMA's next meeting 'Sasanian Silver Coinage and Crises in Roman Imperial Leadership in the Third Century' featuring Dr. Peter Edwell (MQ) takes place next Monday April 26 from 6.30-7.30 AEST. Zoom link via [email protected]. All welcome! @peteredwell

[My Coin Collection @FunWithCoins]

Coin-related art. I've recently bought a poster print of the famous Vilhelm Hammershøi painting "Møntsamleren" (The coin collector).

Slightly more affordable than the actual painting, which is worth millions and I believe is in the National Art Museum in Oslo, Norway.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

If a Russian wanted to grow a beard during the reign of Peter the Great, they had to pay a tax, then carry a token stating “the beard is a superfluous burden” on the side.

[Numismatic Victoria @NumisVic]

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[ACANS @ACANSMQ]

NUMISMA's @Moneymedalsnet training session is today, Nov. 9 from 6-7pm Sydney DST. Are you a student, researcher, volunteer or museum professional working with numismatic material? Join us! Email [email protected] to receive Zoom link.

[Yorkshire Numismatic @yorkshirenumsoc]

This title will be released on October 31, 2020
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Imperial Legitimation: The iconography of the Golden Age Myth on Roman Imperial coinage of the Third Century AD
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[ACANS @ACANSMQ]

Today's the day! NUMISMA takes place this afternoon from 6-7pm (DST). Join us to discuss 'coins in context'- as means, messages and monuments- with Prof. Fleur Kemmers #numismatics #romanhistory

[RoyalAustralianMint @RoyalAustMint]

Interested to see what the Mint has been up to over the past year? Check out the Mint's 2019-20 Annual Report below https://t.co/swtqN6Z1b9

[Numismatic Victoria @NumisVic]

The NAV held its latest meeting on Friday over Zoom. Topics covered included a rare Gold Noble from the Fishpool Hoard found in East Gippsland, the West Gate Bridge and everything in between. A full report is available on the NAV website.https://t.co/6QPwCtbmj9 #numismatics

[Numismatic Victoria @NumisVic]

@MonedasColombia Good to know some things can leave Melbourne, unfortunately we can’t travel more that 5km at the moment.

[Numismatic Victoria @NumisVic]

@curatorlucy @museumsvictoria That would make a good logo...

[Bank of Canada Museum @BoCMuseum]

#OTD in 1893, New Zealand became the first nation to grant women the vote. New Zealand’s leader of women’s suffrage, Kate Sheppard, appears on this bank note.

[State Library Vic @Library_Vic]

An arcade with over 2 million books!? 😍

These are photographs of the incredible Cole's Book Arcade, which opened in 1883 in what we now know as the Bourke Street Mall.

📷 Explore images of the arcade in the Library's catalogue: https://t.co/tR1LVzq0i8

[Numismatic Victoria @NumisVic]

@Library_Vic Big issuer of some fascinating tokens too like this one in the @museumsvictoria collections

[National Archives of Australia @naagovau]

Shooting a 1965 training film about Australia's new decimal currency - with some giant coins as props!

NAA: A1200, L52609

[ACANS @ACANSMQ]

Did you know that our collection includes a set of forger's moulds? The clay moulds were used to counterfeit imperial coins in late antiquity, and were owned by the numismatist Marcel Jungfleisch before their acquisition in 2009. Learn more at https://t.co/lENzo0leWp

[Numismatic Victoria @NumisVic]

The NAV continues to meet (on-line), despite Stage 4 restrictions in Melbourne. Details of our August Meeting are up on our website, which included this piece exhibiting totally inappropriate behavior! https://t.co/523TJggl9Q

[Numismatic Victoria @NumisVic]

@RobertElms OK so 2 years late, but I found this tweet while researching a piece so thought I'd share with you. The market dates back to the 1850s and was set up on the site of the original temporary LNER station. Here's the Tally I was researching, most likely early 1900s