Coins of the USSR and Russia
Numismatics (a hobby for collecting coins) is considered one of the most popular hobbies in the world. It would seem that there is difficult to collect coins? There are many,…

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Coins of Ivan the Terrible
A small miniature from the Russian annals of the 17th century depicts the process of making coins. From this it is known that silver billets were first smelted in a…

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3 coins of medieval England
A rather large role in collecting coins is played by the age of the coins themselves, and the older they are, the more valuable your collection will be. A typical…

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From Pushkin to Gagarin
The once popular bimetallic commemorative 10-ruble coins are now fading into the background. For some reason, collectors have recently become more interested in commemorative coins made of non-precious metals. One…

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Find your coin

Today, it is probably difficult to find a person on the planet who would not ever collect anything. As a rule, the collection of objects similar in their characteristics or purpose, comes from childhood. Remember what you collected in childhood? Stamps, postcards, matchbox labels, beautiful pebbles, shells … It is possible that over the years your priorities have grown into collecting more remarkable things, like beer mugs, netsuke, toys, weapons, etc.

However, numismatics has been very popular lately – a hobby that requires a lot of free time, and especially money, because it turns out that money also costs money, and often not at all, with what kind of face value they are issued. Their value is determined by a complex evaluation system, the main ones of which are the rarity of a coin or bill, its physical condition, and also age. In a word, to understand numismatics well, you need to know history well and many other things.

However, not only knowledge captivates numismatists, but, oddly enough, a passion for adventure. If you think that nowadays the cranks who pack their backpacks, take tents, tourist sleeping bags, kettles and other camping equipment and set off in search of ancient coins or treasures, are gone, then you are deeply mistaken. Moreover, tourism is no less fascinating for these people in life, and therefore they know that the success of the whole enterprise depends on the correct equipment. For example, agree that sleeping in the warmth and comfort of a quality sleeping bag is much more pleasant than staying under the morning dew, curled up in a ball by an extinct fire.

That Maurice Jones, a British enthusiast, is no exception. Every year she goes in search of treasure in the small suburbs of ancient England. And this year was for her the year of discovery. She found in the field near Gloucester a medieval coin from the reign of William the Conqueror. True, for this we had to work hard. With the metal detector, Maureen explored more than one mile of British land. But, as Jones herself assures, this is just her joy. After all, almost her entire collection consists of coins found to her or exchanged for the like.

However, this find for Maureen has become special. Even experts have recognized that they see the coin of the time of William I for the first time. But no one doubted its authenticity. The coiner clearly shows the name of the chaser – Silakvayn and the place where the coin was made – Gloucester, it was here that the mint was located. The find is dated 1077-1080 year. So she is almost a thousand years old!

How much such a find can cost today is not reported, but they say it represents “great value”. However, for a true numismatist, the price is not the most important thing …

The history of coinage of antique coins
After the minting of the first coins was mastered, it is necessary to somehow simplify this rather complicated procedure. And the solution was soon found and put into practice. Approximately…

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Old Russian monetary system
For quite a long time, the fact has been noticed that treasures belonging to the period from the 9th to the 11th century contain quite a lot of fragments and…

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Coins of the era of silver crisis
On the territory of the Muslim East, as well as in medieval Europe, coins were one of the ways and means of exploiting the lower classes. The social groups that…

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