Also known as a coin collection. I don’t have much to comment here, except that they really know how to set the mood for learning about history:
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While there was quite a bit to learn, the focus was on coins. So here we go: be as amazed as I was at the variety of designs, the visible cultural influences, the intricacy and the detail, the mastery and the metalwork.
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Some real beauties. The multy-headed horse in the last two (one?) is odd. I like the silver one with an owl standing on an amphora, mainly because owl.
I think the owl is my favourite, too, but they’re all small works of art and they’re beautifully displayed.
The triskelion coin is wonderfully weird. The owl is one of the finest and the the third to last has interesting calligraphy. I wonder if it’s a an actual Islamic coin or a North European imitation, they apparently used the dirham and dinar coins as models when making coins here in the North at first.