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- historymemes@piefed.social
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/historymemes/p/806332/coins
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I like to imagine a time traveler from Ancient Greece seeing this coin and being like
The olive branch is also a pretty neat aspect.
The myth is that Athena and Poseidon were competing to get the city named after them. Poseidon created either a spring or the first horse, depending on what version of the story we’re talking about. Athena gave them the first olive trees, which was a great hit amongst the people, so she won the contest.
So the coin not only reflects her with the owl, but also the gift of the olive they received from her.
The more modern belief though is that the city was named first, and Athena rose up as their mascot, since her name doesn’t really fit with typical naming conventions of the time, but moreso with the way places were named.
The more modern belief though is that the city was named first, and Athena rose up as their mascot, since her name doesn’t really fit with typical naming conventions of the time, but moreso with the way places were named.
Could be why she was also named Pallas Athena sometimes.
Gods really had much more active social lives back in the day…
Running around playing spears with the boys, building tribute statues after you accidentally kill them, making herself living tribute after her statue gets messed up…
wait. is that ancient coin the basis for the mechanical owl in clash of the titans???
It’s the owl of Athena, so even if not directly, it’s from the same source.
“I heard you guys like coins so we put an entire coin on a coin!”
I remember when Lira used to make these bimetal coin in a coin things. I remember someone telling me back in my youth that bimetal coins were made of oils coins so they could cut costs but make a coin that worked in vending machines without having to resize the internal change sorters. I never believed it and never looked it up.
Yes, it was prob my favourite coin from the 90s around Europe (I thought it looked cool bcs of the two metals).
I wonder if I have some left in some forgotten corner.
Looked cool and was the first circulating coin to feature Braille numerals - which can be seen in your pic.
Does each country have their own Euro coin?
They each have many, as they regularly release new ones. And they soon percolate to the rest of Europe.
It’s always fun trying to figure out where a coin came from.
Each country makes coins and Bills and releases them in their countries. But they’re valid in the whole eurozone.
The front side of the coin looks the same, only the back is different for each country. There are also commemorative 2€ coins celebrating events or other things.
The bills look all the same you can only tell the issuing country by the first letter of the serial number.
Sounds like how in the USA there are different quarters for each state and special editions for anniversaries and stuff but bills all look the same
Yes, even Monaco or the Vatican get their own euro coin.
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That’s rad
Cool coincidence
I thought every euro coin looks the same, interesting
The euro coins have a “European side” that is the combining factor and a “national side” that is designed by the member states themselves.
Most coins aren’t that interesting - https://www.muenzen.eu/euromuenzen-rueckseiten.html
That’s a cool site. Apparently 2 out of 9 coins in my pocket are German. German coins are actually so common I thought they were the default design and didn’t belong to a country.
Iirc about 30% of Euro coins are German. There’s a lot of transit traffic going through the country and Germans love travelling which helps spreading the coins.
