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!

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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

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

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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

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

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

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

Not a bad start for searching $100 in quarters. Almost all the Denver American Women quarters.

And not a single Philadelphia. #numismatics

For anyone who's into #numismatics and especially banknote (paper money) #collecting , I manage a channel on Telegram called "Intaglio's Money Musings" where I share details about the subject.

https://t.me/IntaglioMoneyMusings

I posted a new slideshow of photos there today, describing my experiences attending a local expo.

Do you like decorated coins, like the 1936 decorated threepence I wrote about: https://coinofnote.com/1936-uk-painted-threepence/

If so, you might enjoy this new book on even nicer pieces - "Early Enamelled Coins and Love Tokens": https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n03.html#article5

#Numismatics #Coins #CoinCollecting @numismatics

This weekend is both the local #anime convention and the annual #numismatics show/bourse.

They used to be scheduled for different halls in the same building, but rarely on the same weekend. Sadly, they're 20km apart now so I'll have to split dates.

The crossover potential would have been interesting... what would a good cosplay be? Are there many characters that are specifically portrayed as coin collectors? I keep thinking of Flins in Genshin, but surely there are others.

Ok #MysteryCoin fans, who can identify this old piece?

It will be newsletter time soon so do subscribe if you're not already and the answer will be in there!

#coins #CoinCollecting #SaturdayNightCoinShow #Numismatics @numismatics

The Asunción Times: Free Digital Archive Unveils The Numismatic History Of Paraguay And The Guaraní Currency. “The Numismatic History of Paraguay (NHP) Facebook page has announced the free public release of a digital compilation dedicated to the history of the Guaraní currency. The archive brings together studies on coins and banknotes, iconography, printing errors, minting processes, and […]

Happy Birthday Saint Mary MacKillop! Born 15 Jan 1842 in Melbourne, she was canonised as Australia's first saint in 2010: https://www.sosj.org.au/founded-to-respond/mary-mackillop/

I have several medallions though one of the more interesting is this uniface one made into a paperweight on a resin base, which lives on my desk.

#Numismatics #Medallion #Saint #SaintOfTheDay @numismatics

🪙 Iraq 100,000 IQD Collector’s Lot – 4 × 25,000 IQD (2013–2023)

This curated set includes four authentic 25,000 Iraqi Dinar notes (Pick #102), totaling 100,000 IQD

✅ Condition: Extremely Fine (XF)
→ Clean, bright surfaces with original sheen

🌍 Perfect for collectors of:

➡️ Add to your collection:
https://numismatics.shop/product/iraq-lot-of-100000-iqd-25000-iraqi-dinar-x4-banknotes/

#Numismatics #Iraq #Banknotes #MiddleEast #WorldCurrency #Collecting #Mesopotamia #MastodonArt #History

I do like coins which are the outliers - the first, the last, the smallest, or, in this case, the largest. This is the largest silver coin in the world. A 1,750 ounce (Over 56 kilos!), one million CFA Francs coin issued in 2016 by the Ivory Coast. Google tells me the spot price for silver is around 45,000 CFA / oz, meaning the silver content is worth nearly 79 million CFA, making the face value quite cheap.

https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n02.html#article8

#Numismatics #Coins #Largest #Silver @numismatics

📣 Don't forget, ‪Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery‬ Curator Tom Cadbury will be teasing out the stories behind Exeter's incredible Saxon silver penny in an online talk on Thursday.
15 Jan | 6 to 7pm | £3.50
https://rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/discover-exeters-king-alfred-the-great-penny/?utm_source=globalmuseum

‪@rammuseum.bsky.social‬ #globalmuseum #museums #events #coins #numismatics

As we come to the end of the Christmas season, celebrating the birth of Christ, here is a medallion featuring the reason Jesus came to us, from John 3:16. Let's take a couple of verses either side for more context:

John 3:14 "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son."

#Numismatics #Medallion #MedalMonday #MondayMedal #Bible #BibleStudy #Jesus #Catholic #Christian @numismatics