Historical Artifacts

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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

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Part of a hoard of square Mauryan silver coins from India, 3rd century BCE (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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[–] PugJesus 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Coin collectors are very funny folks. Rarity is almost everything - you can get ten years' of 10th century Andalusan coins that are dirt cheap, and then one year of minting is insanely expensive just because only a few survived for one reason or another.

I definitely need to buy some of these square Mauryan coins if my finances ever stabilize though, they're insanely cool.