#Siliqua

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n256_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Tabulae phytographicae, Turici,Impensis J.H. Fuessli,1795-1804. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58012683

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Roman Coin Hoard Found in England Sells at Auction

A hoard of Roman coins discovered by a metal detectorist scouring farmland has fetched more than £15,000 after going under the hammer.

More than 430 coins were found buried in the village of Colkirk, near Fakenham, Norfolk.

A collection of 73 pieces, including an extremely rare coin featuring a phoenix on a globe, was auctioned in London.

The anonymous finder had shown "perseverance", said coin specialist Nigel Mills, from Noonans auctioneers.

"Some of the people I've spoken to recently, who have found some amazing finds, are spending a lot of time detecting - hours and hours - and they don't give up," he said.

"They keep going and that's the secret in so many things - don't give up, keep looking."

The Colkirk hoard, believed to date back to the early 5th Century, was spread out across a third of an acre on arable farmland, although the majority of finds were discovered in a 1.5m (59in) radius.

It was a lucky find for the detectorist, who had no idea the soil held such treasures.

They were out searching a field in January 2020 when they spotted a silver coin, which they recognised as a siliqua - a small, thin Roman coin.

It sparked a haul of 40 coins that day, with a further 40 found on the following one.

Covid lockdowns meant searches became more sporadic, but each discovery was logged with a portable GPS unit to accurately pinpoint the hoard's distribution.

In all, 315 coins were found in 2020, 114 in 2021 and three in 2022.

Some of the coins had been damaged, while others were fragmented due to farming processes.

A commemorative Third Miliarensis coin issued by Emperor Theodosius, decorated with a phoenix on one side, was only the fifth one of its type known to exist, with all the others in museums.

It reached £3,400 at the sale in Mayfair.

Mr Mills said: "The hoard had [been] spread out over a third of an acre through disturbance by ploughing and has been recorded under the Treasure Act.

"The hoard is likely to have been deposited at the beginning of the 5th Century AD, with the latest coin of Honorius dating no later than 402 AD.

"Other Roman treasure finds of gold and silver also from East Anglia, such as the Hoxne and Thetford hoards, reflect the wealth and importance of the area."

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Carob

(ceratonia siliqua)

Also known as Johannesbrood or St. John's bread

Belonging to the same family as the icecream bean (inga edulis) and tamarind (tamarindus indica) this legume's name is derived from the French word caroube, which in turn comes from the Arabic word kharrūb, meaning 'locust bean' or 'locust bean pod'. Carob is processed into a lot of other products (the pods and pulp into flour, chips, candy and syrup, the seeds into locust bean gum to name a few things) but it can also be consumed straight from the tree when ripe. The pulp is sweet and slightly reminiscent of chocolate, with warm and spicy undertones. Since it doesn't contain the theobromine or caffeine that chocolate does, it's also used to make chocolate-like dog treats!

🍫 Reblog to share a fun fruit and to increase sample size! Check out even more interesting fruits in the list of all polled fruits. 🍫

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Interesting Coins of Constantine

Aureus of Augustus, Laurate head of Augustus left on the obverse, Bull on reverse.

The Heifer aureus is an extreme rarity and probably the most artistically beautiful coin ever issued by Augustus.

Aaaand Constantine steals takes inspiration for an obverse design for one of his weird experimental pieces.

We know that Constantine stole referenced the design because the obverse layout is rare enough that its more likely than not that Constantine had one of the Heifer aurei laying around and had the mint workers use it as a model.

The most interesting part of the coin is how the fourth century art style looks on the coin. It's just strange to see the style of the Christian empire on that of a first century coin.

Constantine didnt just have old Roman coins laying around to take inspiration from, he also had some old hellenistic tets too.

The coin above is a 5 Siliquae piece commemorating a dedication event for the city of Constantinople, the personification of which can be seen on the reverse seated. These coins would have been given out to the city elites of the time.

A Hellenistic tetradrachm for reference, the style of coin that Constantine took inspiration from.

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Coin of the Day #183 (11/3/2024)

My first siliqua (hopefully better ones to come)…

Roman Empire

AR Siliqua - 18mm 1.43g

Valens 367-375 AD

Nicomedia Mint

Obverse D N VALENS P F AVG

Bust of Valens right, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed

Reverse VOT V MVLT X

In laurel wreath, SMN mint

RIC IX 20b

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Gli antichi greci scoprirono che i semi di carrubo (Ceratonia siliqua) avevano sempre lo stesso peso (circa 0,20 g)? Per questo motivo li utilizzavano per misurare il peso dei metalli preziosi.

Le negoziazioni erano spesso condotte con gli arabi, che ascoltarono dai greci la parola "corni di legno" (kerátion), da cui deriva il termine "carato" (usato per misurare l’oro).

La parola "carato" entrò per la prima volta nella lingua inglese a metà del XV secolo, derivando dal francese "carat", a sua volta dall'italiano "carato".

Quasi certamente, il termine deriva dall'arabo "qīrāṭ", che a sua volta proveniva dal greco "kerátion", che significa "seme di carrubo".

Ai tempi dei greci e dei romani, questo seme veniva utilizzato come unità di misura del peso.

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Carob - Alfarrobeira (Ceratonia siliqua)

Cruz Quebrada/Portugal (23/09/2023)

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Cancer on Ceratonia siliqua (carob tree) in Northern Rethimno

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Part 11! There's still more of them!!! More Kamiburanchi bonsai siblings!!!

There's Coral Koolkid the coral bonsai, Mossai Aquascape the aqua bonsai, Cerjud Siliquas the Judas bonsai and Redgum Rivet the Liquidambar bonsai!

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C – Ceratonia siliqua L. – Carrubo (Fabaceae), pianta con fiori maschili

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20 Things I've Looked Up

Every time I look up something that I feel that I ought to have known already, I'm putting it here. Publishing when I hit 20 moments of stupidity.

When two parties own something together, the apostrophe goes solely on the second party in the possessive form. e.g. Kevin and Susie's dog.

How to properly fold a burrito.

"Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!" is translated from Anglo-Norman as "Hear! Hear! Hear!" which is why the Supreme Court uses it to call attention.

Pure gold is 24 karats (semi-arbitrary number selected based on the value of the roman siliqua). Karat is calculated by multiplying the purity by 24.

Carats (with a c) are used to describe the weight of gemstones.

"Break the bank" is actually referencing a piggy bank. If something "breaks the bank" it means it was so expensive that you had to smash open your piggy bank to afford it.

Getting into MENSA takes scoring in the top 2% in a standardized intelligence test at one point in your life and little else.

Verisimilitude: The appearance of being true or real. It's the idea of fiction having credibility.

"Posse" originates from the full term "Posse Comitatus," and means "power of the county/guard" in Latin.

Blue Moon Ice Cream is meant to be raspberry, lemon, and vanilla flavored. I think it tastes like playdough.

Dead people on Facebook will probably outnumber living people on Facebook by the turn of the century.

Lots of contrasting opinions about how long an egg lasts in the fridge, but some general consensus on about five weeks.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientist's "Doomsday Clock" is the closest it has ever been right now at 90 seconds to midnight, though it didn't have a chance to update in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The UK word for "anesthesiologist" is "anaesthetist" and it's just as difficult to pronounce as it looks.

An abacus can be used for counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Specialized ones can be used to find square and cube roots. This video was the first way to learn that I found that didn't make my eyes glaze over.

Ginger Beer versus Ginger Ale Ginger beer tastes spicier, but so does Verners. They're both non-alcoholic.

Alan Iverson's critique of "practice" was referenced by Ted Lasso for one of its most famous moments.

There's no definite way to distinguish essential tremor from Parkinson's disease and they often get mistaken for each other.

Recidivism (the likelihood of criminals to commit crime again) is a top theory behind how the criminal justice system operates, but good stats have never been kept on it.

Bullseye is not the top target in Darts, points-wise.

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D-Galacto-D-mannan from Ceratonia siliqua

D-Galacto-D-mannan from Ceratonia siliqua Catalog number: B2018932 Lot number: Batch Dependent Expiration Date: Batch dependent Amount: 10 mg Molecular Weight or Concentration: N/A Supplied as: Powder Applications: a molecular tool for various biochemical applications Storage: N/A Keywords: N/A Grade: Biotechnology grade. All products are highly pure. All solutions are made with Type I ultrapure…

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Very Rare Emperor Constantine Silver Ingots Saved From Illegal Sale

A man allegedly tried to illegally sell three rare Roman-era silver ingots that his great-grandmother reportedly found in her garden years ago.

Three "truly sensational" Roman-era silver ingots depicting Constantine the Great were nearly sold illegally on the internet, a new investigation finds.

An unnamed man alleged that his great-grandmother found the rare artifacts buried in the family's backyard in Transcarpathia (also known as Zakarpattia), a region in western Ukraine. Later, the man reportedly tried to sell one of the silver bars online, according to Public Uzhgorod, Ukraine's public broadcast station.

However, officials from the museum intervened by reporting the attempted illegal sale to local law enforcement. When officers searched the home, they discovered two additional ingots. Because the ingots have "special cultural value," Ukraine's Office of the Prosecutor General has taken over the case, according to a translated statement from the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in Kyiv.

Each of the metal blocks, which are almost entirely pure silver, weighs more than 12 ounces (342 grams) and contains a coin-shaped impression of Emperor Constantine the Great on each side, according to the statement. Constantine, who ruled from A.D. 306 to 337, is known for ushering Christianity into the Roman Empire and moving his capital to "New Rome," which later became Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).

The ingots would have been used during the minting process to strike coins known as siliquae. The coins with Constantine's likeness would have been issued between A.D. 310 and 313 in Augusta Treverorum, a Roman city that today is Trier, Germany. At one time, the pieces would have been batched together with a thin, silver ribbon, which has since been lost, according to the statement.

"Three ingots fastened together were supposed to be a gift for a very high-ranking person," Maksym Levada, a curator at the museum, said in the statement. "The fact that they were found outside the Roman Empire on the territory of modern Ukraine makes them an invaluable source of our past."

Experts estimate the treasure's value at 3.5 million Ukrainian hryvnia, or about $84,800.

"But what makes them unique is not the cost, but the fact that only a few similar ingots have been found in Europe to date," Andriy Kostin, Ukraine's prosecutor general, said in the statement.

There are about 90 known Roman silver ingots in existence today, with only 11 containing mint stamp impressions, making the three ingots' recovery even rarer, according to the statement.

Kyrylo Myzgin, an archaeologist and faculty member at the University of Warsaw who initially examined the ingots, said in an email that the finding "can be considered truly sensational."

"It is excellent news that they ended up in a museum rather than on the black market for antiquities," Myzgin said. "Roman silver ingots with coin die imprints are incredibl\y rare and were virtually unknown outside the Roman Empire. It is likely that these ingots reached the territory of what is now western Ukraine as a result of interactions between the local population — possibly Germanic tribes or Dacians [people in what is now largely modern-day Romania] — and the Roman Empire in the early 4th century. However, the exact nature of these interactions has yet to be determined."

The ingots are now on display in the museum's "Salvated Treasures" exhibition, which contains a collection of rescued artifacts.

By Jennifer Nalewicki.

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*IL CARATO*

Gli antichi greci scoprirono che i semi di carrubo (Ceratonia siliqua) avevano sempre lo stesso peso (circa 0,20 g)? Per questo motivo li utilizzavano per misurare il peso dei metalli preziosi.

Le negoziazioni erano spesso condotte con gli arabi, che ascoltarono dai greci la parola "corni di legno" (kerátion), da cui deriva il termine "carato" (usato per misurare l’oro).

La parola "carato" entrò per la prima volta nella lingua inglese a metà del XV secolo, derivando dal francese "carat", a sua volta dall'italiano "carato".

Quasi certamente, il termine deriva dall'arabo "qīrāṭ", che a sua volta proveniva dal greco "kerátion", che significa "seme di carrubo".

Ai tempi dei greci e dei romani, questo seme veniva utilizzato come unità di misura del peso.