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lumpenproletariat@quokk.auM to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 day ago

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  • Arandomguyontheinternet@sh.itjust.works
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    Antiquity did it better

  • notabot@piefed.social
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    Wait, Athens used the Euro 2500 years ago? They truly were ahead of their time.

    • Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      No, they used the gyro.

  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
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    Not just using the same design, it’s an image of a coin on a coin.

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      Like a Dwarf Fortress artifact.

    • Steve@startrek.website
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      I see the outline of the old coin on the new coin but the owl has significant differences like it was redrawn from scratch

      • fartographer@lemmy.world
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        from scratch

        Looks stamped to me

    • IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.social
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      yo dawg

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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    Anything not to pay a freaking artist.

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      A real artist would have put a poop emoji in there somewhere

  • Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca
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    Doing anything to not pay an artist, smh

    ~/s just in case~

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    That owl has seen some shit

  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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    Israel does the same thing with the 10 agarot coin!

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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      What’s that map?

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      Yeah, but Israel can go suck a dick.

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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        the have a necrowanker unit, does it count?

        imagine how much into racial blood purity you have to be for the state to take dead people’s sperm without their consent.

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      Heartbreaking: worst country you know does kind of cool thing

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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        And Nazis made the WV Beetle your point?

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      I’m surprised it doesn’t have a picture of a dead kid

  • Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    That’s an Eypo not a Euro, clearly.

    /s

    • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auOPM
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      EYPΩ

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    Talk about being lazy.

    • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world
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      Give a hoot Greece!

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    When you copy someone else’s homework but get a better grade.

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    Why mess with perfection?

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    Hah!

    What a hoot.

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    That’s the Owl of Athena: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl_of_Athena

    Has some cool symbolism

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