Part 2 of my #AtoZChallenge2024 reflection. I love the personal connection you find with #coins & the community. I wrote most of the posts in the weeks prior to the #AtoZChallenge. This was fortuitous as my mother passed away early in April. But those connections made it a joy to re-read each post & share it. Today's #coin is from day "D", #Denmark, & a park open when my ancesters lived there: https://coinofnote.com/25-ore-token-denmark-dyrehavsbakken/
Apologies for many posts today - I was excited after the #AtoZChallenge :) In any case, I also discovered another server I could log into & search for hashtags like #coins & #Numismatics & see a whole bunch of posts I never saw before. I really wish the Fediverse had a simple way of seeing EVERYTHING posted anywhere on Mastodon with a particular hashtag!
(@FediTips do you know, will me sharing posts help me see future posts from those servers, or do I actually have to follow those accounts?)
We're up to "Z" and the last #AtoZChallenge post for 2024! Following a comment suggesting it on an earlier coin (please do leave comments, they are greatly appreciated!) - today we visit #Zanzibar. Home to microliths (what are they?), the Sultan of #Oman (at various times), and the really nice 1 Pysa coin I have for you today: https://coinofnote.com/1882-zanzibar-1-pysa/
There are a few of us wriring in the #AtoZChallenge / #AtoZChallenge2024, but we're not all seeing everyone. Can I get boosts please to help find others?
Please reply if you're not listed! I've seen posts from:
As per the boost of @phistorians's post, today is the traditional date celebrated as the founding of Rome by Remus and Romulus, raised by a she-wolf and pictured on this coin issued by Constantine I (the Great) in 333-334 A.D. (Roma on obverse). Minted in Treveri (Germany), if I'd thought of the date when planning this weekend's #AtoZChallenge posts I probably would have written it up for today.
Ok #AtoZChallenge people, I did it again - here is a bonus "L" coin! This time featuring beautiful African scenes from an altruistically-founded country, which answers the question: "Did the USA have any African colonies?"
I hope you enjoy this piece, the information and the coin:
For today's #AtoZChallenge, the letter is "i", the country is: India, home to the world's most frequent #rail travellers. Let's explore the #Delhi#Metro, which moves people around the #largest#city in #India and second-largest city in the world:
It's the name of the trope (according to TV Tropes) where someone expects a stranger to look unattractive, and then they show up and turn out to be hot.
After more than a 2 year hiatus, I'm trying this blogging thing again. What motivated me was something I read yesterday: a challenge called A-Z of blogging. It consists of 26 articles to be written on the Mondays to Saturdays in April, one for each letter of the alphabet.
#AtoZChallenge2024: Sunday Special, Introduction to Dungeons & Dragons Editions
Tomorrow begins the April Blogging A to Z. I will discuss the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons. So today is a guide to the various Editions. #AtoZChallenge#DnD#ttrpg
Wrote a blog post for Myths and Legends Day on the A to Z main blog. It's about how to find good books on legends and mythology 😊 And what to look for in a good source.
When I looked at Yugoslavia as Y for the #AtoZChallenge, the first coin I liked was the 1955 50 dinara. I love how that series of coins work together. I wrote up the earlier 1931 10 dinara first, to break up the history of the country a bit, so today here is that 1955 #coin: https://coinofnote.com/1955-yugoslavia-50-dinara/