Updates
Below are updates to the site as they occur. I will try to break it down by week.
2025
March 30 - April 5, 2025
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Aurelia - Collections patrimoniales numérisées
Aurelia est la bibliothèque numérique patrimoniale des Médiathèques d’Orléans. Son nom provient d’Aurelianum, le nom romain donné à la ville de Cenabum par l’empereur romain Aurélien au IIIe siècle de notre ère et qui a donné à la ville son nom actuel, Orléans.
On y trouve plus de 40 000 documents numérisés. Les collections sont parmi les plus précieuses et prestigieuses conservées à la médiathèque d'Orléans et constituent une ressource importante de l'histoire régionale depuis le XVe siècle jusqu'au milieu du XXe siècle.
Les œuvres numérisées présentées appartiennent au domaine public. Leur réutilisation est gratuite, à condition de citer leur source.
Greek - Attica
Athens c. 454-404 B.C.
AR Tetradrachm, 24.69 mm x 17.24 grams
Ref.: HGC 4-1597, SGCV 2526 (Kroll 8)
Obv.: Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye
Rev.: AΘE right, Owl standing right, head facing, closed tail feathers, olive spring and crescent to left, all within inches square
Note: Slight die wear, tiny flan flaw on obverse
Before March 30, 2025
Brick Architect explores a wide range of topics related to LEGO architecture, technical aspects of the LEGO hobby, and other architecture topics.
*I find this website mostly useful for the LEGO Storage Guide and the LEGO Brick Labels
DIG provides evidence-based educational resources that empower individuals and communities to make sense of our past, navigate our present, and shape our future.
Based on the exhibition at the British Museum.
Celtic - South West British
The Durotriges (58 B.C.-43 A.D.)
Cranborne Chase Type AR Stater, 19mm x 5.95 grams
Ref.: SCBC 366, SGCV 172, (ABC 2160, VA 1238, BMC 2662, 2690)
Obv.: Wreath, cloak and crescents
Rev.: Disjointed horse left, rectangular head, body of crescents, four vertical legs, three roughly horizontal lines for tail, pellet below, twelve pellets above
The interactive Medieval Murder Maps give unique insight into violence, and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford.
Medieval - 12th Century Feudal France
This is a great and very comprehensive list of ancient coins. It is particularly useful for identifying Roman Imperial coins.
The definative catalogue of Roman Provincial/Greek Imperial coins. The published books contain introductory material which is lacking in the online catalogue. This is still a work in progress.