TLDR: Download the coin here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5904625 The Chinese used had shells well before 1,000 BCE as gifts, especially those bestowed upon the people from their aristocracy. Those were used in religious ceremonies and some hypothesize that imitation shells were used as a form of currency as far back as an estimated 700 BCE, around the time the bronze age ended in China. Knife money, or knife-shaped money began to be used in China in the centuries after 600 BCE. Spade money, or money that physically resembles a spade, began use some time after 640 BCE, which actually makes it far older than the stater, but it’s theorized they were used…
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3D-Printable Byzantine Coins (and why they matter)
Just posted a .stl file for a Byzantine Coin at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5902779. The Roman empire had been unified in 27 BCE and the western empire fell in the 400s CE. By then, the Byzantine empire had been established by Diocletian in 285 CE. Constantine I moved the capital to Byzantium, which would then be called Constantinople. The Thracians had settled the area around 1,500 to 1,700 years before – possibly by Byzas, supposedly a son of Poseidon and grandson of Io. Having been settled by the Greeks and then occupied by the Greeks. The colony began as a trading site and then traded hands between city states and the Persian Empire…
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3D-printable Francish Coin From Charlemagne (and why)
Just posted another coin, this time a post Roman empire coin from the next to claim the title: Charlemagne: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5902572 After the fall of the Western Roman empire, Rome retreated from lands as her generals were defeated. The Merovingian dynasty rose in the 5th century with the defeat of Syagrius, the last Roman general of Gaul and lasted until a family of advisors slowly took control of running the country, transitioning to the Carolingian Empire, of which Charlemagne, the Holy Roman Emperor, as he was crowned, was the most famous. He conquered and grew the empire. Medieval Christians still held the last vestiges of the Roman empire, the Eastern Byzantine…
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3D-Printable Greek Stater Coin of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE in Babylon in 323 BC. Coins had been in circulation for a little less than three hundred years by then, with the innovation beginning in Lydia, then Persia, and flowing to the empires around the Mediterranean from there. This coin was struck within a year of Alexander the Great’s death and follows in the tradition begun by his father in Macedonia. The coins and then the idea (and ideas) behind them, just as Hellenism did, would then flow to Greek colonies around the coasts to far away lands in most modern European, Northern Africa, and Indian countries from there.
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3d-printable Ancient Mauryan Coin from India
Posted another coin to Thingiverse at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5900668. This one is of a coin from the Mauryan empire. Chandragupta Maurya established the Mauryan Empire in the Magadha region of India shortly after the death of Alexander the Great in the 320s BCE. By then, coins from Persia and the Greek city states had been traded with peoples in the Indian subcontinent for centuries. India hadn’t been united by previous empires in the way Chandragupta did so, and the empire he established lasted until 185 BCE.
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3d Printable Model of the IBM 1401 and
Just posted 3d printable stl models for two of the more iconic IBM mainframe models. The first is the 701 ( https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5487484 ). And the second is the 1401 ( https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5482403 ).
