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Coins in the World and the World (= Cosmos) in Coins: A Cosmographic Approach

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The world of coins is a very interesting virtual universe. Coins have been used in the past three Millennia for purposes related to financial transactions. However, many of them are small works of art that imply a different—more cultural and sometimes also cultic—sig­ni­fi­cance. By their representations and motifs they were used for political, religious and fi­nan­cial reasons. Still, the motifs, and pictures on some of them have a mere cosmovisional ap­proach and present us with the ancient imago mundi of their creators. We examine a few coins belonging to the Collection of the Numismatic Muse­um in A­thens, that bear certain cos­mographic motifs and symbols (stars, constellations, zo­dia­cal asterisms, planets, and the li­ke). We are examining and discussing the semantics of these very cos­movisional represen­ta­tions, that make of the related coins small virtual worlds in­side our Universe, the Cosmos …

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10.21608/abgad.2010.60368

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عملات, المنهج الکوني

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Amanda–Alice

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Maravelia

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5

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5

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8482

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2010-12-01

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2019-11-20

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2010-12-01

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33

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49

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1687-8280

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2213-8609

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Coins in the World and the World (= Cosmos) in Coins: A Cosmographic Approach

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22 Jan 2023