#third century crisis

[twofielder]

Coin of the Day #106 (8/18/2024)

I’m probably just going to keep picking from this bag, there’s so many nice ones…

Roman Splinter State - Gallic Empire

BI Antoninianus - 22mm 4.33g

Postumus 266-267 AD

Treveri Mint

Obverse IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG

Bust of Postumus right, radiate, draped, cuirassed

Reverse SALVS AVG

Aesculapius (Asclepius) standing right, head left, leaning on serpent staff, globe at feet

Mairat 348

[ancient-rome-au]

new usurper just dropped

The ‘Roman emperor’ Sponsian is known only from an assemblage of coins allegedly found in Transylvania (Romania) in 1713. They are very unlike regular Roman coins in style and manufacture, with various enigmatic features including bungled legends and historically mixed motifs, and have long been dismissed as poorly made forgeries. Here we present non-destructive imaging and spectroscopic results that show features indicative of authenticity. Deep micro-abrasion patterns suggest extensive circulation-wear. Superficial patches of soil minerals bound by authigenic cement and overlain by oxidation products indicate a history of prolonged burial then exhumation. These observations force a re-evaluation of Sponsian as a historical personage. Combining evidence from the coins with the historical record, we suggest he was most likely an army commander in the isolated Roman Province of Dacia during the military crisis of the 260s CE, and that his crudely manufactured coins supported a functioning monetary economy that persisted locally for an appreciable period.

[link to article]

[neighbourhoodtwo]

mods r asleep post roman emperor tierlist

[faaun]

omg i FEEL you about the asd articles... i'm cuttently studying psychology and THIS makes me wanna go and pursue a job in research after graduating :')

yeah !! you should! i study a very interdisciplinary degree and out of all the fields I study in (ML/phil/psych/neuro) psychology has the most inconsistent, outright harmful, sometimes misinformed-at-best info sprinkled into publications and even lectures and it's a genuine source of frustration ! we need def need more researchers committed to accuracy and fairness and eliminating stigmas, biases, etc. :)

[sistersorrow]

TikTok really trying to give me "thinking of the Roman Empire" dysphoria

[infirmux]

i have reason to believe something has happened to those businessmen

[asagi-asagiri]

“Hard times create strong men” is the dumbest cope.

[archaeolorhi]

NEW ROMAN EMPEROR DISCOVERED!

This is Sponsian! Once thought to be a forgery from 1713, archaeologists have recently discovered that the coins show legitimate wear & tear and were used in a period where the province of Dacia became separated from the wider Roman Empire!

Find my whole reaction here below, I'd love to hear your thoughts!!

Photo above is from the original report on PlosOne, which can be found here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274285

The other article within the reaction is from History First, which can be found here: https://historyfirst.com/roman-coins-dismissed-as-fakes-are-genuine-and-depict-lost-emperor/

Happy reading/watching!! <3

[woodsteingirl]

i owe more to mike duncan than i realize tee bee aych….. without him i would not be where i am…

[twofielder]

Coin of the Day #11 (5/15/2024)

Here’s one from a breakaway state of the 3rd century crisis…

Roman Breakaway State - Palmyrene Empire

BI Antoninianus - 20mm 2.92g

Vaballathus + Aurelian 270-272 AD

Antioch Mint

Obverse VABALATHVS V C R IM D R

Bust of Vaballathus right, laureate, draped, cuirassed

Reverse IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG

Bust of Aurelian right, radiate, cuirassed, Z below

RIC V 381

[alexjcrowley]

Frank Zappa put liquid cocaine in One Size Fits All

[maester-of-spreadsheets]

The fact we know more about Cicero and Atticus’s daily life than we do about the entire Crisis of the Third Century™️ is hilarious to me

[amereid1960]

أثر أزمة القرن الثالث الميلادي على فلسطين - دراسة تاريخيَّة وأثريَّة

أثر أزمة القرن الثالث الميلادي على فلسطين – دراسة تاريخيَّة وأثريَّة   أثر أزمة القرن الثالث الميلادي على فلسطين – دراسة تاريخيَّة وأثريَّة الكاتب : دكتور لؤي محمد أبو السعود . دكتور أمجد أبو العز الملخص: تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف إلى أزمة القرن الثالث الميلادي في روما وأثرها على فلسطين من جميع جوانب الحياة المختلفة مُنذ اغتيال الإمبراطور الروماني ألكسندر سيفيروس (Alexander Severus)عام 235م حتى…

[alewaanewspaper1960]

أثر أزمة القرن الثالث الميلادي على فلسطين - دراسة تاريخيَّة وأثريَّة

أثر أزمة القرن الثالث الميلادي على فلسطين – دراسة تاريخيَّة وأثريَّة   أثر أزمة القرن الثالث الميلادي على فلسطين – دراسة تاريخيَّة وأثريَّة الكاتب : دكتور لؤي محمد أبو السعود . دكتور أمجد أبو العز الملخص: تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف إلى أزمة القرن الثالث الميلادي في روما وأثرها على فلسطين من جميع جوانب الحياة المختلفة مُنذ اغتيال الإمبراطور الروماني ألكسندر سيفيروس (Alexander Severus)عام 235م حتى…

[elbiotipo]

Many people here think that they can "escape from Argentina/Latin America" (a stupid concept to begin with) but what I see instead is that most developed and semi-developed countries, with a few exceptions, are actually Argentina in the 90s, and are heading to a 2001 crash in different speeds.

What I mean by this is that in the 80s-90s, most countries adopted neoliberalism and capitalism just stopped focusing on producing things, at all, and became all about finances (finacialization). At the same time, neoliberalism destroyed the state (unions, welfare state, public infraestructure and investment, healthcare and education) in favor of expanding the market. Which now, with financialization, it doesn't produce anything anymore.

In Argentina we did it quick crazy and fast with Menem, and that's why we crashed so hard and fast in the 2001 crisis (and also with the 1976 dictatorship and now with Milei). Other countries like the US or most of Europe have centuries of accumulated wealth, and so they could cushion themselves on that for decades. But now that's running out. Inflation is rising, unemployment, destruction of local economies, lack of infrastructure, an absent state, social crises, political extremism... Eventually, neoliberalism comes back and destroys you. Here in the third and second world, we experienced it fast. The first world will be hit too, just with delay.

Again, the world is Argentinizing, and in not in a fun way.

[papasmoke]

Man do you really think the whole “100 million deaths at the hands of the govt in the USA” thing is inevitable

You're right a rapidly accelerating climate crisis won't lead to horrors unseen in the history of man everything's gonna continue to be normal don't worry about it! Sure a third of Pakistan was displaced in a century defining flood and forest fire season gets worse every year and droughts are happening more frequently but stuff like that is aberrant and not at all representative of larger trends. Surely if it were representative of an increasingly unstable climate the US wouldn't desperately cling to power and resources through violence as an exponentially increasing percentage of the global south is displaced and starved, right?