Coins. The development of civilization through the eyes of a techie

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Once it brought me to a distant Siberian city to a large factory. Well, I decided what was required, noted a business trip, and went to say goodbye to the director, Ilya Nikolayevich Autlukov. They summed up the results, talked about the plans and then my eyes fell on the wall of the office.

A whole collection of old coins was hung on the wall in beautiful wooden cases. - Collecting? - Yes, there is a sin. - Well, God himself ordered the director of a large enterprise to collect money! - Well no. You know, they are interesting to me from a technological point of view. - What could be interesting there? - Yes, a coin can tell a lot about its time. Here, look, for example: Russian post-Petrine medyakhs. Don't you notice anything special? - Well, copper is like copper … Old, rusty. A little crooked … - Crooked? Take a closer look. For example: this coin was clearly not very well rounded.

- Well, maybe. So what? - Like what? And you think, why? - Yes, the devil only knows. Well, probably, when stamping, the metal deforms, climbs over the edges and needs to be slightly trimmed around the circumference. - Compare the same coins … - Hmm, they were leveled the same … So what? - And the fact that if you take chopped pieces of metal and flatten them, the metal climbs in different directions in different ways. Well, if, of course, you do not stamp from perfectly flat blanks, but bluntly chopped a copper rod with an ax. - AND? - And, it turns out, if it was processed in the same places, then the surplus of metal was in the same places. And what does this mean? - About what? - Sprue, cudgel. These coins had a sprue. They were cast in the same mold, and in order for air to escape during the manufacturing process, special grooves were made in the mold. In the finished product, these sprues were chopped off and cleaned, which we see on Peter's and post-Peter's Russian coins. Look here. - Autlukov pulled out a heavy copper plate from the cabinet. - Petrovsky dime. Explicit casting. When good steel appeared, these plates were stamped. And those that were not stamped were poured into coins.

- And what about the European ones? - Basically the same bullshit. Of course, gold and some silver ones do not have such traces. But, they are processed much more carefully. - And, again, what? - Well, like that. We see that even in the 18th - 19th centuries, coins were cast. This means that they still did not know how to massively stamp even in the 18th - 19th centuries. And, here, you know, look here - antique from Turkey, Greece and North Africa. Look: there are no sprues, the coins look like stamped ones. - I don't see a problem. In Turkey, they knew how to stamp, but we do not … - Yes, how can you not see! - shouted Autlukov. - What are you, a humanitarian? The issue of coin production is the most important issue in history. To stamp coins you need a punch - a matrix made of a harder metal than the metal of the coin. Antiquity, it is quite officially the Bronze Age. Iron, ostensibly, or was not, or it was extremely rare (personally, I do not believe in this version, but it is official). What were the punches for minting coins made of? - Bronze? - Bronze is fragile. Iron, here, perhaps, is a suitable material for a punch, but in this case, how were the images cut on these iron punches? Steel was officially invented in modern times. - That is, they could not stamp coins in antiquity? I see you, Ilya Nikolaevich, are a new chronologist. I, too, once had this hobby. - New chronologist? No. I think the "new chronology" was thrown in specifically in order to avert one's eyes from the obvious things: ancient stamped coins do exist, but, according to traditional history, they really could not have been made. I think the truth is aside. Schizo historians and catastrophists explain more convincingly for me, a techie: in ancient times there was a highly developed civilization, a civilization of "gods", which died as a result of either war, or because of a global natural disaster, but leaving behind reserves of metals, which were used by our much less developed ancestors. And now humanity is only approaching the heights. on which it was once already. Unfortunately, I was in a great hurry to get to the train, so I said goodbye in a hurry, but I took the floor from Autlukov the next time I was sure to return to this topic.