The Coin that Changed History

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• LE

  @lewisfudge · 2 years ago · pinned

  Great video😁Was nice to be the person to make this installment in the history books🤩

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• SI

  @sirrathersplendid4825 · 2 years ago

  It turns out the coin is not unique! Academics at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford have found two other examples in the records, which because of heavy wear or heavily trimmed inscriptions had previously been overlooked. The previously unknown king was a certain, Esunurtos, the first two letters recovered from one of the other coins of the same type.

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• LE

  @lechatel · 2 years ago

  I live in Normandy, France, I have found a stater and a quarter stater in my local area. In the plough soil. No particular landmarks nearby. They are the coins of a tribe which gave their name to the town of Bayeux of tapesty fame. We are actually much nearer to the capital of another tribe. Another way of recognising which tribe made a coin is by the metal. Some staters were gold, but the ones made by the Baiocassi weremade of electrum...a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver. It is interesting to note that stater design was a corrupted/ almost abstract interpretation of coins from the classical world. Many celts served as mercenaries in southern Europe and they saw the coinage of the Greeks and Romans.  Look at these coins and you clearly see the way the celtic coins evolved from those designs. In another field of my rural hamlet I found a silver denarius which was from Republican Period of Rome. It is dated 110 BC. About the same period as the two gallo-celtic coins. The design has a chariot on one side and a helmeted head in profile on the other. The celtic coins are the same...but the design is much more abstract and wild.

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• MI

  @mixmashandtinker3266 · 2 years ago

  Gives the saying ”Money talks” a whole new meaning…

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• PA

  @patrickcolclough2423 · 2 years ago

  I visited Danebury this summer and picked up a sherd of an early iron-aged pot as I walked up the slope. Quite made my day, always check the rabbit holes. :)

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• WE

  @wendarampton1888 · 2 years ago

  So pleased that you picked up on this. Could not think of a better person to do this. Well done 😊

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• DA

  @davidcronan4072 · 2 years ago

  Is it just a coincidence that the fictional Essex town depicted in "The Detectorists" is also called Danebury?

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• DU

  @DumfriesDik · 2 years ago

  As a child, we would visit Danebury ring. On one visit my father found a 'brooch', it was handed in to Winchester museum.

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• DO

  @donsharpe5786 · 2 years ago

  An interesting period of history before Julius Caeser in 55/54BC where little was known.  Hopefully more will be known in the future.

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• FU

  @fuzexi · 2 years ago

  Nice video. Would have been nice to get a longer, more detailed look at both sides of the actual coin though!

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• MR

  @mrme3717 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Awesome.  And I thought the Danebury metal detectorists club was fiction. Don't forget the first rule of metal detectoring school.

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• LK

  @LKBRICKSAndMore · 2 years ago

  Excellent very interesting to watch

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