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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The History of Computing: Intel
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3D-printable Persian Daric Coin
TLDR: Just posted this .stl for 3d printing to Thingiverse at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5897427. The first coin I posted was of the Lydian Stater, for that see https://krypted.com/the-history-of-computing/lydian-stater-coin-design-for-3d-printing-and-why/. To continue our journey of the history of coins and why these matter: The Lydian Lion coin was minted initially be the father of Croessius and then by Crosseus ihimself in the early years of the 500s BCE. Cyrus the Great introducd the concept of coinage in the Persian empire with the daric, after he defeated Coesus of Lydia some time after 546 BCE. By the end of the 500s and early 400s, two rulers later, Darius I defined that a gold coin would…
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Lydian Stater Coin Design For 3D Printing (and why)
tldr: Download it from thingiverse here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5886433 Lydia And The Stater Lydia was an empire that began in 1200 BC and was conquered by the Persians around 546 BC. It covered the modern Western Anatolia, Salihli, Manisa, and Turkey before the Persians took it. One of their most important contributions to the modern world was the first state sponsored coinage, in 700BC. Many of the coins were electrum, which is a mix of gold and silver. And here’s the most important part. The standard weight was guaranteed by an official stamp. The Lydian king Croesus then added the concept of bimetallic coinage. Or having one coin made of gold and…
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70 Years of AI Hype Cycles and AI Winters On The Way To ChatGPT
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Simulmatics: Simulating Advertising, Data, Democracy, and War in the 1960s
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Model of the Digital Equipment PDP-1
Easily downloaded at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5474754.
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3D Printable Bust of Ada Lovelace, Arguably the First Computer Programmer
And by arguably I mean I consider her thus but some like to argue and do not.
