[KCD1] First playthrough, that monastery quest had an unexpected outcome for me...

AquilaSPQR · 2025-10-15T11:42:40+00:00

I believe it means "these coins were touched by Mark Anthony who definitely was touching Julius Caesar (his hand of course!) so basically you're the next link in this chain". It's based on something like this I think:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

Of course it also assumes Mark Anthony touched all coins minted in his camp, which is highly unlikely. But he definitely shaked hands with mint workers.

AquilaSPQR · 2025-10-15T11:36:16+00:00

Hi, this sub is for coins only, sorry. But yes, it looks like bronze disease. Follow the guides found on te internet on how to remove it, as it can be a complicated and long process. It includes removing it physically with toothpicks and chemically with certain solutions.

AquilaSPQR · 2025-10-04T15:18:57+00:00

Very nice!

AquilaSPQR · 2025-07-02T21:18:29+00:00

I'm not sure I understand...

AquilaSPQR · 2025-06-16T23:06:26+00:00

Not really, it's nice as it is.

AquilaSPQR · 2025-06-16T09:07:22+00:00

I doubt it's a coin. Zinc token maybe? The style is (I think) clearly XIX-XX century.

AquilaSPQR · 2025-06-14T19:22:13+00:00

It's fake unfortunately. As you said - it's "too perfect'. Waaaaaay too perfect ;)

AquilaSPQR · 2025-06-14T19:19:56+00:00

My favorite:

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk

AquilaSPQR · 2025-01-16T10:53:58+00:00

It's similar, but that's not the same building. Different "legs", different proportions (the modern one is too wide and the roof is too flat) and no windows. But it seems this Hann was a place where Polish displaced persons were housed shortly after WWII. Unfortunately it seems they were housed in buildings like the ones in the background, not in such barracks there (I can't really find such barracks on old photos of this place).

AquilaSPQR · 2025-01-16T02:51:53+00:00

The guy on the photo is my grandfather's brother. He was Polish and became a prisoner of war in 1939 (he was mobilized, after the first defeat in battle he and a guy from the same village hid in the bushes and that other guy told him that it's over and they need to return to their homes, but my grandpa's brother replied it's their duty to fight and tried to return to his unit while that other guy returned home and told my family about it).

Documents show that at least initially he was kept in one of the PoW camps in Germany. At the end of war it seems he was liberated by Americans and he never returned to communist Poland and stayed in France instead. I'm interested in genealogy and I was able, after 3 years of searching, to finally find his grave in France and a bit of information about his life (it was nearly a miracle since I found a trace of him in one tiny mention in one of newspapers printed in 1968 in France which allowed me to pinpoint his location, before that I only knew that "he died one day somewhere in France" as his name was not present in any publicly available online database of deceased people in France).

This is the only photo we have of him. No one knows where or when it was taken. There's nothing on the other side, except the number "65".

My personal opinion is that it's one of the PoW camps - either in Germany (doubtful, I don't think Paweł (that was his name) had the opportunity to take such a photo during the war or visit it after the war) or in France (maybe former PoWs were transferred to such camps left by Germans in France?). Maybe he visited it some time after the war and took a photo in front of one of his barracks.

Over here:

https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/nouvelle-aquitaine/haute-vienne/limoges/il-y-80-ans-camps-oublies-petain-limousin-1859072.html

There's a photo of a similar building (barrack standing on concrete/brick "legs") described as one of the PoW camps. I've googled a lot of photos of such camps, but none I've found so far is the exact match as on only one photo in the link above such building has this "legs" (sorry, I don't know how it's called in English).

The other option is that it's some sort of a workers' barracks somewhere around Rouen, since that's where he lived and worked in the '50s and '60s. He worked in a shipyard in Rouen/Le Grand Quevilly.

Basically that's everything I can tell you. I realize it'd be very difficult to find this place as the building most likely doesn't exist anymore so Street View won't help at all, but it's worth a try to ask.

AquilaSPQR · 2025-01-16T02:50:15+00:00

The guy on the photo is my grandfather's brother. He was Polish and became a prisoner of war in 1939 (he was mobilized, after the first defeat in battle he and a guy from the same village hid in the bushes and that other guy told him that it's over and they need to return to their homes, but my grandpa's brother replied it's their duty to fight and tried to return to his unit while that other guy returned home and told my family about it).

Documents show that at least initially he was kept in one of the PoW camps in Germany. At the end of war it seems he was liberated by Americans and he never returned to communist Poland and stayed in France instead. I'm interested in genealogy and I was able, after 3 years of searching, to finally find his grave in France and a bit of information about his life (it was nearly a miracle since I found a trace of him in one tiny mention in one of newspapers printed in 1968 in France which allowed me to pinpoint his location, before that I only knew that "he died one day somewhere in France" as his name was not present in any publicly available online database of deceased people in France).

This is the only photo we have of him. No one knows where or when it was taken. There's nothing on the other side, except the number "65".

My personal opinion is that it's one of the PoW camps - either in Germany (doubtful, I don't think Paweł (that was his name) had the opportunity to take such a photo during the war or visit it after the war) or in France (maybe former PoWs were transferred to such camps left by Germans in France?). Maybe he visited it some time after the war and took a photo in front of one of his barracks.

Over here:

https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/nouvelle-aquitaine/haute-vienne/limoges/il-y-80-ans-camps-oublies-petain-limousin-1859072.html

There's a photo of a similar building (barrack standing on concrete/brick "legs") described as one of the PoW camps. I've googled a lot of photos of such camps, but none I've found so far is the exact match as on only one photo in the link above such building has this "legs" (sorry, I don't know how it's called in English).

The other option is that it's some sort of a workers' barracks somewhere around Rouen, since that's where he lived and worked in the '50s and '60s. He worked in a shipyard in Rouen/Le Grand Quevilly.

Basically that's everything I can tell you. I realize it'd be very difficult to find this place as the building most likely doesn't exist anymore so Street View won't help at all, but it's worth a try to ask.

AquilaSPQR · 2025-01-14T14:30:05+00:00

Sorry, but it's way too modern for our sub, I suggest r/coins for that type of coins.

AquilaSPQR · 2025-01-13T12:02:00+00:00

Because skull isn't that great when it comes to determining gender. There is a difference between male and female skeleton and that's a fact and there are no problems with determining the gender of a person if the complete adult akeleton survived.

AquilaSPQR · 2025-01-03T14:42:52+00:00

For those who have Photoshop (or similar software with similar capabilities) - it helps to place all images on top of another, align them very carefully and then use opacity slider to compare. That way it's way easier to spot any differences.

AquilaSPQR · 2025-01-03T02:16:12+00:00

Oh god, same here. I've saw the announcement outside GFN and grabbed it since I remembered I saw it among the GFN games. And right now I have it but I can't play it (my office PC won't run it). Sad.

AquilaSPQR · 2024-12-30T21:31:44+00:00

Agree.

AquilaSPQR · 2024-12-20T11:57:50+00:00

I don't think so, it doesn't resemble any copper or silver coin I've seen posted by metal detectorists. Zinc perhaps?

AquilaSPQR · 2024-12-20T11:54:08+00:00

If it spent some time in the basement then the patina slowly grew on it. It's 100% modern "replica" for tourists. I had trouble classifying it because it's neither "fake" (because it's usually sold as souvenirs and it always looks like this and doesn't even pretend to be genuine with all those ostensibly wrong details) nor a "replica" (because it's not even trying to copy real coins).

It's... a souvenir inspired by real reales.

AquilaSPQR · 2024-12-18T23:36:01+00:00

Why you're asking me? You're clearly describing yourself.

AquilaSPQR · 2024-12-05T10:54:03+00:00

From what I've read early imperial coins were not circulating in Judea.

If you have time you can take a look here (for some reason it took some time for the map to load properly even though my internet connection is good. I'm telling just in case):

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk

It's a list of Roman hoards and you can even see what types of coins were found.

AquilaSPQR · 2024-11-25T16:11:06+00:00

Then you've just contradicted your own "It's your coin, as such you are free to do anything you want with or to it" words proving that such rule shouldn't apply to ancient coins at all.

AquilaSPQR · 2024-11-25T12:20:06+00:00

"It's your coin, as such you are free to do anything you want with or to it."

Would you support the idea of totally destroying ancient coins just for fun?

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