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@@julianaalcantara3595 What?

Grasp. I think it's to grasp or I grasp

Agreed, I love ancient coins, especially Greek ones from the east. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it... more on the way, stay tuned and safe!

Menandros?

@@natanulsiref the one the Buddhists call "Milinda". I do not know too much about Indo-Greek Kingdoms, but my pa collects those. We also have some coins from a guy Apollodotus the First, They're far cheaper than the Menander's coins. Menader's Silver coins can go upwards of 60 dollars a coin, While Apollodotus' coins are way cheaper, We got them in a bundle the wife of a deceased Coin collector was selling.

Yeah there's so much history dealing with coins... wish I had time to research and cover more. Thanks for watching!

Thanks! This video is a bit different than my usual ones so I'm glad that you found it interesting. More on the way, thanks for watching and stay safe!

Great to hear! There will be a lot of examples of coins in future programs, so you're in luck. Thanks for watching this short video, really appreciate it!

Haha thanks! The good thing is this one is short... make sure that you get a lot of rest before the Peloponnesian War series coming soon! Thanks for watching, appreciate it!

Oh now I'm really excited. It's funny you mention that since I've gotten stuck into Assassin's Creed Odyssey again as that conflict is starting in the background.

Well you could be paid in salt

@@johnree6106 Another great example of what could go in the video.

Egyptians lived on bread and beer. Were they being paid or fed?

Hi, thanks for watching, and thanks for explaining this, really helps me and others reading this to understand the process. Thank you!

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! More on the way, including Dynasty V in a couple of weeks, stay tuned!

@@HistorywithCy Great! I hope you will use something from my videos from Abusir and Saqqara, a lot of V Dynasty there ;)

@@ancientsitesgirl That'd be awesome! The video is scheduled for sometime in Feb but I haven't started recording it yet, so I'll review the script and see what 5th dynasty monuments/pyramids would be cool and then get in touch with you. Thanks!

@@HistorywithCy Very well! That would be an honor!

@@ancientsitesgirl Hi there, just sent you an email! Speak soon!

Coming this summer, stay tuned!

Me too! More to come, stay tuned!

@@HistorywithCy bactrian gold staters though

Lindybeige is very entertaining, he has some great videos

Oh love Lindybeige, one of the pioneers on this platform! Perhaps in future, yes, we could definitely go more into it. Thanks for your interest in this stuff, appreciate it!

Oh man, that sounds like a awesome coin! Thanks also for telling me about Osmund Bopearachchi, I'll look him up! The Greek east is one of the most interesting topics for me and I'm trying to get to it by summer! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and more on the way, stay tuned and safe!

For sure, hope to get into some of them in the next few months, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

Haha it is... imagine if people still used iron rods today! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it... stay safe!

Me too, it just boggles my mind what ancient transactions these might have been used for! Thanks for watching and more on the way!

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! More on the way, stay tuned!

You're welcome, thanks for watching!

My pleasure and welcome! Glad you found some stuff that you like here. More on the way, including Mesoamerica, hopefully in summer of this year. Thanks for watching and stay tuned for more!

Thanks, love my viewers! More on the way, stay tuned!

Thanks, thought you'd be interested in this one. Haha see any you'd like for your collection?

@@HistorywithCy I like some of those gold coins lol

Thanks so much for the info, really appreciate it as will others who read your comment. That's great you're a numismatist, really interesting stuff! I've been reading "The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources" and a similar one on Athens and while I always liked coins (used to collect them along with stamps as a kid), such books put them in a whole new light. Any books you'd recommend? Thanks again for the comment and the info, really appreciate the feedback from someone in the field!

I mostly learn from catalogues and online numismatic communities but one book that I’d highly recommend is Harlan J Berk’s “100 Greatest Ancient Coins”. It provides some nice background and insight into the history of coinage from its inception up to the fall of Byzantium. Plus some phenomenal quality images of some of the world’s best specimens. By the way, should’ve mentioned earlier, absolutely love your work! Watched the entire Mesopotamian series at least twice over the years! Looking forward to the Egyptian one in its entirety once it’s finished. Keep it up!

@@mockvi4 Thanks, I see the book on Amazon and will order a copy! And glad you also enjoy the videos, really appreciate the support. Lost more on the way and thanks again for the info and your advice!

Awesome! You'll be seeing more of them this summer when I hopefully get to that part of history. As always, thanks for watching, really appreciate it and hope all is well on your end!

Lmao what? You're talking about copies, right?

Agreed! I'd love to delve more into it but it can get to be expensive hobby since you can never buy just one or two! Just to think who may have held the coin so long ago and what they may have bought with it! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!

@@sergeant_chris6209 oh there are many sites online where you can order authentic coins. Ones that were once widely in circulation are not as rare as you might think. Check out sites like vcoins or even Ebay. Some are relatively inexpensive, others depending on the rarity and the metal, quite expensive!

@@HistorywithCy damn i had no idea that this was allowed lol

@@sergeant_chris6209 Yeah, the most expensive were about 70$. The Roman silver denarius. No famous emperor on it or anything. other bronze ones were only about 20-25 each. Got some from the danbury mint, some from APMEX, and Vcoins had some but I think they were out of my price range. I was also surprised how affordable they could be and how ubiquitous they are. Now if you want a Julius Caesar or Augustus coin or roman republic stuff... that kind of famous stuff gets more expensive. It's amazing though

Thank you, glad you liked it! A lot more ancient Greek history on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

Oh yeah, some of the most beautiful in my opinion... check out Greco-Bactrian coins, they're my favorite. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

Yeah I've heard that somewhere too... even heard that some people would simple cut a coin in half and just use it as payment according to the weight, especially after the Roman empire had fallen. Interesting stuff! Thanks for watching and more on the way, stay tuned and safe!

Aztecs used coins?.I know Cocoa Beans were a form of currency for them but coins?, Is there a vid about this?.

Thanks, you too!

That has been common through history all over the world. Heck, the Swedish king Gustav Wasa actually forged fake coins with Christian IV (the Danish king who occupied Sweden before Gustav threw him out) since everyone knew those coins more silver in them (the forgeries certainly didn't). A classic gold coin is 22 carat because if you add more gold it gets so soft that it wont stay in shape with normal handling but many rulers have diluted their coins on purpose and so have private individuals. It was also pretty common to "shave" off a bit of gold from the outside of the coin (the rulers usually added a little silver or copper, a couple of percent which adds up when we are talking about thousands of coins). Gold coins were always a favorite to falsify, more then a few historical coins have turned out to be a gold plating on a lead base but I don't think many if any rulers did that since it would crash their economy if it was found out. Diluting the gold to 20 carat were a bit harder to detect but Archimedes did figure out how to do it so it became known pretty fast. Not to mention that many goldsmiths used coins as material and if you diluted your coins that would be pretty obvious when the coins were melted. So you could probably get away with 20 or so carat but below that people would figure it out. Henry VIII cheated with his silver pennies so much that people called him "Old coppernose" (not to his face though, he did like executing people) because when his pennies were handled a bit the copper shined through at the kings noose. A bit off topic to classical coins but a great story. :)

@@loke6664 pretty interesting to find out rulers where forging money

@@johnree6106 Lol, does that surprise you? The back story is that the Hansa was banking Gustav but he had a huge loan to them when he came to power so he diluted the heck out of his silver dalers since the loan was specified in those. To get enough silver even for that he made his country protestant and confiscated a lot of land, church silver and even the church bells (those he turned into cannons). That solved his debt problem but now he had the problem that no one wanted to be payed in his money which is why he counterfeited Danish silver coins (still with little silver in them). Politicians have always been a bit scheming but Gustav took it to a new level. He was beaten by Richard Millhouse Nixon though who skipped the dollars ties to gold totally so he could do the same far easier. The thing is that inflation wasn't really the same thing as long as coins were made of gold and silver. 2 ounce of gold was worth 2 ounce of gold no matter what any expert claimed but if you lacked enough gold to pay your debts you either had to earn more or get creative. Today you just print more money (or add more into the computer run system) which of course means that if the economy collapses it really collapses like it did in Germany after the great war or Venezuela today. I am pretty sure there are other kings besides Gustav and Henry who diluted the gold and silver of their coins but the only other leader I can think of that counter-fitted foreign money was Hitler who printed pound notes and had plans to smuggle them to England. Rumors say that North Korea are making dollar notes but I don't know if that is true.

🎉Happy Birthday, all the best and thanks for watching!

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Interesting topic, I can look into it.

@@HistorywithCy great. Thank you. Key words you can search for research is "aramaic" "syriacs" "syriac language" "arameans" "kingdom of osroene" . I think this will help alot

@@HistorywithCy also you can search for world council of arameans. They have alot of info.

@@HistorywithCy we have our own flag also. Aramean flag 🙂

@@HistorywithCy if you want a fun fact , the word kebab comes from aramaic word kababu meaning burning or cooking. 😄

Thank you!

Nice! Aeginian coins are simple but beautiful with the sea turtle. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it! Stay tuned for more!

Thanks my friend, for this and also the link! Stay safe!

Best thing is to probably find a certified coin dealer in your area. They can do an appraisal for you but also do your research online and see what similar coins are going for. Good luck!

Thank you! Cheers!

I think he meant Electrum

@@LukeBunyip Ah ok, didn´t know that. Sounds like a modern thing. Thank you!

According to wikipedia the greek used the word for both the alloy and amber.

It's electrum. Thanks!

Hi, thanks for your comment. Actually, there were a few towns named Chalcis on the mainland in addition to the one on Euboea, one in Aetolia, one around Elis and another I believe in Epirus. But you're right, the one in Eretria is the most famous. I talked about it in the video on the Lelantine War a few months back. Thanks for stopping by, appreciate it!

Haha I might be a nerd, but not that big of a nerd to use such a term 🤣🤣🤣. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it... stay tuned for more!

Wait, did you call me a big nerd!?! :D Will do!

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