‘Eine Silbermünze …’ (‘A Silver Coin …’)—or on Coins in a Newspaper

Aleksanderia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
Andrzej Kokowski ◽  
Wieńczysław Niemirowski
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Archaeologia ◽  
1814 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 229-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Weston
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I beg leave to offer to your Lordship and the Society a Description of a Roman Altar lately dug up in the neighbourhood of Aldston Moor, in Cumberland, near a military road, and not far from a great Roman station. The altar is three feet high, sixteen inches wide, and eight thick. It is divided into three compartments, the capital, the square or plane, and the base. On the top is an oval cavity one inch and a half deep, and about nine over by six, in which the wine, the frankincense, and the fire were placed, and was called Thuribulum, the censer, or the focus; but this hole is not on all the Roman altars found in Great Britain. On the sides however of the one I am describing are two bass-reliefs, representing on one part the infant Hercules strangling two serpents (as he is seen on a silver coin of Croton in Italy), and on the other the god in all his strength about to combat the serpent in the garden of the Hesperides (as he appears on a coin of Geta struck at Pergamus).


1905 ◽  
Vol 74 (497-506) ◽  
pp. 218-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirke T. Rose ◽  
Charles Thomas Heycock

It has long been known that an alloy of silver and copper is not satisfactory material for the trial plates which are used in testing the fineness of the Imperial silver coin and of silver wares before they ar hall-marked. As long ago as the year 1580 the lack of homogeneity of silver-copper alloys was well known to the German metallurgists, and in 1852 Levol concluded that the only uniform alloy of the series contained 718.93 parts of silver and 281.07 parts of copper a composition which corresponds to the formula Ag 3 Cu 2 .


1885 ◽  
Vol s6-XII (295) ◽  
pp. 152-152
Author(s):  
Rich. C. Christie
Keyword(s):  

1885 ◽  
Vol s6-XII (295) ◽  
pp. 152-152
Author(s):  
H. S.
Keyword(s):  

1982 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
Malek Iradj Mochiri
Keyword(s):  

The silver coin presented here (Plate I) was acquired from a travelling dealer. It was sold to the writer in isolation, without accompanying coins or information which might have given some clue to its provenance. The dealer, although ignorant of the Pahlavi script, was clever enough to realise the value of the piece. He offered it as a coin of Khusraw II, but demanded three times the usual price on the grounds that it was of a mint rarely encountered


2015 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Kampf ◽  
P. M. Adams ◽  
B. P. Nash ◽  
J. Marty

AbstractFerribushmakinite (IMA2014-055), Pb2Fe3+(PO4)(VO4)(OH), the Fe3+ analogue of bushmakinite, is a new mineral from the Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron Point district, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA, where it occurs as a low-temperature secondary mineral in association with plumbogummite, mottramite, Br-rich chlorargyrite and baryte on massive quartz. Ferribushmakinite forms yellow slightly flattened prisms up to 0.2 mm long growing in X and sixling twins. The streak is pale yellow. Crystals are translucent and have adamantine lustre. The Mohs hardness is ∼2, the tenacity is brittle, the fracture is irregular to splintery and crystals exhibit one or two fair cleavages in the [010] zone. The calculated density is 6.154 g/cm3. Electron microprobe analyses provided: PbO 63.69, CaO 0.07, CuO 1.11, Fe2O3 7.63, Al2O3 1.63, V2O5 12.65, As2O5 3.09, P2O58.63, H2O 1.50 (structure), total 100.00 wt.% (normalized). The empirical formula (based on nine O a.p.f.u.) is: (Pb1.99Ca0.01)Σ2.00(Fe0.66Al0.22Cu0.10)Σ0.98(V0.97P0.85As0.19)Σ2.01O7.84(OH)1.16. Ferribushmakinite is monoclinic, P21/m, a = 7.7719(10), b = 5.9060(7), c = 8.7929(12) Å, β = 111.604(8)°, V = 375.24(9) Å3 and Z = 2. The eight strongest lines in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern are [dobs in Å (I)(hkl)]: 4.794(46)(011); 3.245(84)(211); 2.947(100)(020,212,103); 2.743(49)(112); 2.288(30)(220); 1.8532(27)(314,403); 1.8084(27)(multiple); and 1.7204(28)(312,114,321). Ferribushmakinite is a member of the brackebuschite supergroup. Its structure (R1 = 3.83% for 577 Fo > 4σF) differs from that of bushmakinite only in the dominance of Fe3+ over Al in the octahedral site.


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