so hello fellow clink like this this is
Glenn back with another video and today
we're gonna have a look at one of my
oldest coins so this is a coin from
costs and cost is actually an island
near roads and that's also needy Turkish
mainland and as you can see this one
actually has a crab so if you having
trouble seeing crab so this is the main
body day it's a main body and we have
the legs there so we've got free pairs
on each side then we have the main cause
coming out the front so if I couldn't be
of course this coin is dark it's
actually a bit hard to actually see you
need the angle of the light to be it's
very hard actually down below we have a
club so a little bit information about
costs so gave you where it is its
capital city is actually also called
cost it has an area of 200 19.3 square
kilometres it's a pretty small the
highest elevation is 843 meters so it's
actually like a mountain rank that
sticks out of the water and the lowest
is a zero which means sea level
currently has a population of 33,000 at
the Roman so this would have been
Hellenic kiri just would have been meant
to the bat between 2:30 and 260 BC so
this is in the Hellenic period in which
it was a time that the place was
actually independent he did have
relations with the ptolemies of Egypt
and they also sent
their printers over dared to actually
get an education and there was also the
tot Ptolemies a naval l posts for the
aegean and there was a medical school
there as well a few people have actually
come from the place apparently and one
of those was he broke cleitus who was a
greek physician in the age of Pericles
so that was wasn't for food he got
something so that's actually bet two
hundred years before his coin was
actually minted and as you can see this
one's pretty corroded so that's before I
found out it's actually probably a
pretty poor soil which corroded the
actual coin so here is the other side of
the coin and the face is actually here
and then you got to hear it's actually
that side so fucking don't like when
that does that I think you go moved it
around
sooo you can see the actual eyes that
are here the nose is their mouth with a
coin in this condition it's actually
gonna be pretty hard to show really good
detail so I need to actually get better
coins so this one's actually one of the
more common coins from costs and what
any interesting thing is that the name
of the actual place cost is has been the
same since recorded history of the place
started so in the Iliad it was also
mentioned as costs and if I go to the
Mycenaean period in which charged more
were supposed to have taken place okay
it was found a boy mayor opps
he was a king so whomever ups was the
King and he include included unique a
deli and lead so and it was supposedly
visited by Hercules so this is actually
a herculean he actually has a loin the
lion
oh the line scalp so the lion's head is
there and it's got the domain I mean
down this period so this coins about
it's about one gram they actually why
it's made of bronze or copper I'm just
gonna say bronze and it's the
denominations one choke on so it is 1/8
of an oval or 148 of a Jack marks
so for thinking there's four holes in a
drachma but so sorry there is six ovals
in a drachma and 48 calculon's in a
drachma so this is actually quite a
small coin probably couldn't purchase
much at the time period but it is
actually a nice coin actually have
hopefully I can actually get more all
Greek coins because they're really just
a lovely so I've been looking any other
coins this probably is an inscription
above and it looks like there is one
below it's actually bit hard to actually
tell because of the condition the actual
corney's it could be just the name of
the place coin or probably another
inscription usually it's just something
to do to name
you know ancient Greece anyway here's
where I'll leave the video and I hope
you would like ancient Greek coins are
actually quite a nice coin to actually
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thank you very much watching have
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