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I have been very, very busy recently. I have been playing club soccer, doing mock trial and Model UN, and trying out for the school baseball team. Then, all of that ended, and I was bored. So I decided to do an independent research project through the school. The topic I chose for my research was coins. I was working on my project earlier this week, and I found a 3-cent nickel in my collection that I won from a grab bag in the YN auction last year. I brought it to my next research meeting, and my mentor had all kinds of odd denominations. He had a ton of ½¢ pieces, a couple of 2¢ pieces, and a 3¢ coin. I found them interesting, so I decided to write a blog on odd denominations.
Ok. I am running out of German states I can write a coin blog about. So I have been looking at other ideas. I was thinking: African Colonial coins? No. Italian states coins? Probably later. Pre-Columbian currency? Probably not. More Great Empires? Definitely. And that is where our story is going this morning.You may be wondering: how does that relate to Hanover? Well, hypothetical reader, I'm glad you asked.
The idea for this blog came from unlikely sources: a boring eighth-grade study hall, a game of chess, and my school library’s 972 section. I had already finished all of my homework (read chapter one ofTo Kill a Mockingbirdand do 11 trigonometry problems) and was bored. So I decided to play a game of chess on my computer. My teacher told me to stop and do something productive. I went to the library and found the 972 section about the Spanish Conquest. I picked up a book about the Inca emperor Atahualpa and started flipping through it. Then something caught my eye. It was a picture of a Lima gold doubloon. I looked over and saw a poster about a trip to Spain centered on colonialism. I knew I hadn’t done a Coins of Great Empires blog in forever (my laptop broke last March and money.org was blocked on school computers last year) so I decided to do one about the coins of the Spanish Empire.
A story before I begin: I was writing this earlier this week. I was chilling on the couch and watching the Bayern Munich game, feet up on the ottoman. My brother asked me what I was doing. I told him I was watching soccer. He then asked me what I was really doing. I told him that I was writing about the coins of the Ottoman Empire. He told me that the Ottoman Empire invented the ottoman and producing ottomans was their main industry. I told him that he didn't know what he was talking about and then asked him questions about the empire. He said, "I don't know" to all of them and walked away. It turns out that he was half right: ottomans originally came from the Ottoman Empire! They were traded around Europe, being exchanged for coins or other types of currency, mostly from the German States, France, and the Italian States. Anyway, that's a fun little fact about the Ottoman Empire before I get started.
Today, I will be starting a new blog series. This one will be called the Coins of the Great Empires, and in each blog,I will cover the coins of specific empires from history, such as the Ottomans, Napoleonic France, Austria-Hungary, the German Empire, and today's subject, Byzantium. I have also changed the titles of my Russian Empire and Roman Empire blogs to fit with this new series.
Hello and welcome to another Coins of the German States blog! Two things before I get started: First, the coin in the picture is not in my collection. Second, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt are two different states. I got confused about that while writing this. I might do a German States blog on the latter in the future. (It's nice because I get to choose what to write about here, unlike in school!)
Hello and welcome to another Coins of the German States blog! This time, there will be two states featured, simply because they are united today and I felt that they were very similar to each other. Hesse-Nassau was actually a Prussian state for some time, so a lot of the coins there are Prussian issued, which I will get to later (also I have covered Prussia on an earlier blog). Also, the picture is not a coin from my collection.
Hi! This is not one of my usual, informative blogs, but about the YN auction. Congratulations to the people who won 1 or more lots, I hope you enjoy your coins! I myself was able to get one of the grab bags at the end, and am waiting to see what's inside.Congratulations again, Coinyoshi
Welcome to my next blog. I recently found some Canadian coins in my basement and it gave me a blog idea. Here we go.
Today is my birthday, and I would like to share with you a very short coin blog about commemorative coins, since most of them are birthdays, like Bicentennials and Centennials!Commemorative coins are unique and only produced in a certain amount, and they could commemorate different events like World War 2 or an Olympic games. They all have different face values, from a half dollar to 5 dollars. There are earlier ones and there are later ones, like the 200th year anniversary of the first English colony in the Americas, or the 1974 Olympics. That is some of the facts about commemoratives. That will be it, and keep exploring! my next 450 words blog is coming soon, so watch for it!Good bye!
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