Basiliscus Solidus, ( Jan 9, 475- Aug 476 AD), minted around the year when Rome fell.6mo ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/AncientCoins
Guys with hair like this have a 125% chance of stealing your daughter, invading Judea, and even fight you when the chance comes.3yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/RoughRomanMemes
Around 5 ounce worth of Roman silver, nearly 2 months worth of wage back then!9mo ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/Wallstreetsilver
Quadrants when minorities exercise their second amendment rights.4yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/PoliticalCompassMemes
Who else thought Meelo would fart bend in this scene to save Tenzin?!4yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/NeverPauseAvatar
Gold to silver ratio in Roman empire between 1st - 3rd century AD. 25 silver denarii weighing 3-3.5g each was worth a gold aureus weighing 7-7.5g.1d ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/Gold
This peanut uses a brainlet guy to represent someone that they agree with!!5yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/TheRightCantMeme
Around 5 ounce worth of Roman silver, nearly 2 months worth of wage back then!9mo ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/Silverbugs
Just makes you lose sympathy for their cause (which I already don't have any).2yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/PoliticalCompassMemes
I completed the set of The Five Good Emperors, Lucius Verus, and the kid who ended it all!3yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/ancientrome
The door handle was different on the Tardis in Howard's house vs the one attached to Amy's bedroom (The Skywalker Incursion)2yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/bigbangtheory
I just got my first gem, and it's a ruby. I didn't want anything expensive, but also it needed to be at least big enough so I went with a Lab grown one. Octagon cut, 6.3 carats, 1.26 g, 12mm x 10mm. Love the striations that fluoresce under UV light.1yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/Gemstones
Perth, Australia is the furthest city from Chicago in the World (10977miles/17666km)3yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/perth
A denarius of Aurelian (he was the last person to issue denarius!), with Victory on the reverse. The only emperor from the 3rd century who I'd say had the sole right to depict Victory!!3yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/ancientrome
It's weird to see a French fleur-de-lis on a coin without French letters, this coin was minted in the French-Indian colony of Puducherry in the 19th century, bearing the name of the city in Tamil letters!4yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/heraldry
Are there any caves that open into the sea? I don't mean the sinkholes or the ones on the shoreline formed by erosion, but a proper system extending far from inland, like the one I sketched.3mo ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/caving
Roman debasement of silver, a graph I made from the coins in my collection.3yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/ancientrome
I've always wanted an 8 reales, especially with chopmarks! I know for a fact the journies it took, minted in Mexico, shipped to the Philippines across the Pacific via the Manila galleon, traded in China, then travelled to Spain where I bought this coin(online) which finally flew to me in Australia!4yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/coins
For halloween, I present you this ominous looking 'Hand Heller', aka 'plague coin' from Germany's Schwabisch Hall minted around 1350, in the midst of the Black Death epidemic when millions upon millions of people were killed, wiping out more than half of Europe's population.4yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/coins
Its’s one thing to find silver in American half dollar roll, but it’s totally different story to find a discontinued Aussie silver 50c with different size & shape!4yr ⋅ JCogn ⋅ r/Silverbugs