Xerxes I ruled from 486 to 465 BC, he was the son of 'Darius the Great' as Guy correctly pointed out, like his father, he ruled the empire at its territorial apex, meaning the empire was greatest at this point in history. He ruled until his assassination in 465 BC at the hands of Artabanus, the commander of the royal bodyguard, who saw weakness in Xerxes and wanted his own Son to rule the empire Xerxes I is notable in Western history for his invasion of Greece in 480 BC, and his struggles with the Heroic 300 Spartans. His forces temporarily overran mainland Greece north of the Isthmus of Corinth until losses at Salamis and Plataea a year later reversing these gains and ended the second invasion decisively. Xerxes successfully held off revolts in Egypt and Babylon but couldn't manage the same with the Greeks as their strength, bravery, freedom, intelligence and training were ultimately far superior than he ever imagined even though he outnumbered them greatly, the theory is because Xerxes enslaved most of his army they were less effective in battle as the free Spartan Men. Following Xerxes's death the Persian empire slowly declined and disbanded around 331BC.
I love this man… its a true blessing to hear his knowledge of coins and history… as a new collector I love to connect history with coins….Thanks coin guy!!!
Yess perfect dinner time watch . Lovley topic as always . Ive just purchased my fisrt Elizabeth 1st hammered shilling from 1582 yesterday from my dealer . Watching as alway 🇬🇧❤👍
I know this is a family channel,so I'll just say the birds on the 1700 countertoken are reproducing,lol.The Austrian energy coin had 6.5g of niobium and 9g of silver,only 65K minted.Marcus Aurelius was Commodus' father.Xerxes father was Darius the Great,and his mother was daughter of Cyrus the Great.He is known for the Battle of Thermopylae,but the battles of Salamis and Plataea were equally important.Aside from being an artist, sculptor and inventor,da Vinci was a draftsman, scientist,architect,engineer,and studied the human body extensively.Plus he was a lefty🤘.I love these interviews with Guy
3:15 is a bimetallic Silver and Niobium coin. I was looking to buy a Silver/Gold one (5 euro) today. I do not know the commodities value of Niobium - you see some of these with Titanium as well, and they are almost always exquisitely made.
I loved looking at the ancients, especially the Roman. I am very familiar with these coins. This series is vast and very interesting. They were artistic, sometimes semi religious items and also conveyed messages similar to our emails too!
@@coinguy8107 it would be my pleasure to see you two guys. I am 75, paralyzed legs from from service and unable to travel, but I travel in my mind when I watch your show. Thanks..
Di Vinci was a great weapon maker , creator and artist, master in all areas - amazing guy - wrote things backwards so it wouldn't be accused of treason or whatever and could keep secrets. In San Diego there was an awesome exhibit of him and his works - not sure if its still there but very cool :)
Great video, as always when you two get together. Along with everything else that Austrian coin was interesting. Canada issued a sterling and niobium 4 coin set for the full moon of each season in indigenous lore from 2011 to 2012.
The Royal Canadian mint start releases some nobium centered coins around 2013, the first were a set of 4 moon themed coins, wolf moon blue, hunters moon tan, strawberry moon pink, and i don't recall the 4th. The color is determined by exposing nobium to a gas for a different amount of time. Its a very rare and expensive metal. Then the mint released coins with a flower center in nobium, in a silver 7gr at $114 cad.
About the baby coin: It’s called a Kerzen (candle) dreier (three piece) It says: unser süssester Beruf (our sweetest job) ist das Glück der Liebe (is the luck of love) The text is from a poem written by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (1746-1797)
I live in Scotland near the Hadrian's wall Romans left coins all over 2000 year old there worth very little unless made of gold ,old doesn't mean value ,we can't get enough of USA eagle,s ,they sell between 50/70 dollars each ,those are tax 20% but no tax on gold 🤔
Great vid guys, 20 pence is still a current UK coin. The Platypus coin is a current Australian 20 cents coin, also current. The British pound coins are the old version. The one is bimetallic, gold coloured with a silver centre. Niobium (Ni o be um) is a metal used in a lot of stainless, aerospace industry materials.
another great fun video - I don't know any foreign coins so this is fun :) would like to see more by counrty maybe and time frame :) - keep it up guys you rock
At 19:19 you can see a "5 Deutsche Mark"- coin. 5 Deutsche Mark = 2.55 Euro . You can still change Deutsche Mark in Euro at the Central Bank in Germany.
The old guy at the Mccully Stamp & Coin shop in Honolulu used to give me little 10-pound jugs of foreign for $100. I miss him dearly. Once, I found a gold sovereign in there and it always had silver.
I need to order a bag of Foreign coins from Coin Guy maybe I'll get some Gold too 🤔 🤷♂️ Awesome pile of Foreign coins, I could dig through that for hours 😳
Yeah interesting Niobium bimetallic coin there - Austria 25 euros - renewable energy on the reverse. Niobium is worth about double the price of silver - sometimes a bit more and it's used in turbine engines, stainless steel and other alloys that need high heat resistance. I presume it's also used in wind turbines. Great looking blue - anodised it can be multiple colours - purple, green, blue but the elemental crystalline metal is silvery and forms square and pentagon shapes due to its electronic configuration. Not seen it in a coin before.
1:52 ...ist das Glueck der Liebe (...is the Happiness of Love). Nice donative token for new born babies, probably early until mid 18th century. Minted in Germany or in the New World ? Greets from GER, U.
Hello from Uk- really enjoy watching these videos. The pound coins Guy found were legal tender till about 5 years ago- we now have a twelve sided one pound coin. Apparently there were so many fake round pound coins the royal mint had to update with the new coin which has more security features on it .
The platypus has a little barb, hook on one of it's back flippers. Poisonous for about the first year of life. If I remember right. Also look out for the Blue Ring octopus.🇺🇸🇦🇺
That Austrian coin reminds me of my Kazakstan Astronaut coins. Silver on the outside and tantalum center. The colorization comes from soft of heat/electrolysis process.
I picked up a Moroccan Accaparadoxides genus trilobite about twice that size 20 years ago. It's one of my favorite fossils. Just a massive ancient bug!
Raid coin guy of all his silver....LOL... that would never happen. Guy would have ended up working at a museum if he did not own a coin shop. Amazing he still has a true passion for the hobby.
Strange that it would be given **during** Baptism to ward off evil. Someting iconographic is not entirely out of question for Luthernaism, but it is more rare and seen as superstitious, so I am guessing this is Catholic. What I would guess is that it was given at Baptism as a *lifelong icon/medal,* probably of St. Benedict, to ward off evil thereafter, as ancient Catholics and we Orthodox give exorcisms at the moment of Baptism, making such a gesture unnecessary.
Could you ask Coin Guy if Ancient Rome really flourished only with copper coins? I saw a film by Bill Still saying that Rome's money started losing power after the rich introduced gold& silver coins (common folk didnt have). Wondered what he thought
Contrary to the popular belief that got the movie gladiator brought on, there is no historical proof that emperor Commodus killed his father Marcus Aurelius. According to the historical accounts that we do have it is mostly unclear how he did meet his end but most historians do believe that he either died by natural means such as the plague or pneumonia, or the other popular theory is that while he was on campaign on the gallic front fighting against Germanic tribes in the marcomanic wars rumors went around the empire about him falling ill and a major usurper named Avidious Cassius tried to usurp the imperial throne, and Marcus Aurelius was forced to travel east to regain stability of the empire, but some historians believe that before Marcus Aurelius was able to put down the rebellion he was killed by his own troops in a mutiny. Neither of these theories have been completely proven but one thing is for sure, we do not have any proof for the rumors that have gone around ever since ancient times that his son Commodus or his wife Faustina had Marcus killed
Another cool video thanks, we don’t see your face very often but we always see your hands in my thought is you are very soft hands whatever you do for a living you don’t use your hands , As they say you don’t work with your hands
Omg older the better please take care of the fossil but could you please sale me the oldest coin you got i will call the shop as soon as i save enough money for it lol love the videos
Really happy to see more and more US collectors giving ancient coins the love they deserve :)
I knew I'd see u here! :))
@@stoicmf8540 Here we are! :)
Ancients are a direct link to the ancient world, nothing is cooler than that!
@@BopWalk nothing like having a piece of history in the palm of your hands
It's actually sad to hear that historical coins get melted down.
Xerxes I ruled from 486 to 465 BC, he was the son of 'Darius the Great' as Guy correctly pointed out, like his father, he ruled the empire at its territorial apex, meaning the empire was greatest at this point in history.
He ruled until his assassination in 465 BC at the hands of Artabanus, the commander of the royal bodyguard, who saw weakness in Xerxes and wanted his own Son to rule the empire Xerxes I is notable in Western history for his invasion of Greece in 480 BC, and his struggles with the Heroic 300 Spartans.
His forces temporarily overran mainland Greece north of the Isthmus of Corinth until losses at Salamis and Plataea a year later reversing these gains and ended the second invasion decisively.
Xerxes successfully held off revolts in Egypt and Babylon but couldn't manage the same with the Greeks as their strength, bravery, freedom, intelligence and training were ultimately far superior than he ever imagined even though he outnumbered them greatly, the theory is because Xerxes enslaved most of his army they were less effective in battle as the free Spartan Men.
Following Xerxes's death the Persian empire slowly declined and disbanded around 331BC.
Thanks for clarifying, interesting read
I love this man… its a true blessing to hear his knowledge of coins and history… as a new collector I love to connect history with coins….Thanks coin guy!!!
Those bins look like fun to dive right in! Thanks for sharing!
Ancient coin collecting is addictive. Once you start, you cant stop. Great way to teach and learn history.
Coin Guy is truly an American treasure. Love this series so much. You guys are very entertaining to listen in on your chats
When I was six years old I got my first trilobite fossil...loved dinosaurs. Definitely started me off on the collector kick..
My coin shop here in Des Moines, btw, is both a Rock/Fossil shop and coin shop, half and half. They even have Damascene steel knives for sale!
There are some really interesting ancients. This was another fun video with Coin Guy and you. Thanks, Speg!
Thanks coin guy and spectacular. I Truly Appreciate these videos. I could listen to you gentlemen talk all day👍👊✌️
Yess perfect dinner time watch . Lovley topic as always . Ive just purchased my fisrt Elizabeth 1st hammered shilling from 1582 yesterday from my dealer . Watching as alway 🇬🇧❤👍
I know this is a family channel,so I'll just say the birds on the 1700 countertoken are reproducing,lol.The Austrian energy coin had 6.5g of niobium and 9g of silver,only 65K minted.Marcus Aurelius was Commodus' father.Xerxes father was Darius the Great,and his mother was daughter of Cyrus the Great.He is known for the Battle of Thermopylae,but the battles of Salamis and Plataea were equally important.Aside from being an artist, sculptor and inventor,da Vinci was a draftsman, scientist,architect,engineer,and studied the human body extensively.Plus he was a lefty🤘.I love these interviews with Guy
3:15 is a bimetallic Silver and Niobium coin. I was looking to buy a Silver/Gold one (5 euro) today. I do not know the commodities value of Niobium - you see some of these with Titanium as well, and they are almost always exquisitely made.
I loved looking at the ancients, especially the Roman. I am very familiar with these coins. This series is vast and very interesting. They were artistic, sometimes semi religious items and also conveyed messages similar to our emails too!
I just want to spend hours there going through the foreign!! So fun!!
that Trilobite fossil is cool, I have sharks teeth and arrow heads that's about the only other collection I have outside of coins.
Awesome show and education !. Coin Guy is the best !!. Wish I was in 2154 Mariner Blvd. Spring Hill, Florida !.
thanks guys
Awesome gentlemen. I had to purchase some Phillips and Alexander graded coins to complete my ancients. Thanks brothers. ❤😊
The £1 in the foreign coin lots are not circulated anymore due to extensive counterfeiting
Coin Guy would make a kick ass history teacher! I'm going to be 60 in fall and Guy has a superior memory to me
"Yeah, I think more than that!" 😍😍😍😍
I would like to be able to visit this guy's shop....
We love to have you John.
@@coinguy8107 it would be my pleasure to see you two guys. I am 75, paralyzed legs from from service and unable to travel, but I travel in my mind when I watch your show. Thanks..
@@johnbethea4505 Thank you for your service.
I love the fact that this LCS owner collects rocks and fossils. I have an extensive mineral collection myself 🙂 rocks go up in value to
Di Vinci was a great weapon maker , creator and artist, master in all areas - amazing guy - wrote things backwards so it wouldn't be accused of treason or whatever and could keep secrets. In San Diego there was an awesome exhibit of him and his works - not sure if its still there but very cool :)
I really enjoy your videos. I learned a lot still at my age of 67. Been collecting since 8 years old
Thanks!
Woah! I think that's my FIRST super thanks! Appreciate it Scotty
Many beautiful things about collecting ancients, but one is fact, they are all UNIQUE no two coins are alike, unlike modern coins.
Great video, as always when you two get together. Along with everything else that Austrian coin was interesting. Canada issued a sterling and niobium 4 coin set for the full moon of each season in indigenous lore from 2011 to 2012.
The Royal Canadian mint start releases some nobium centered coins around 2013, the first were a set of 4 moon themed coins, wolf moon blue, hunters moon tan, strawberry moon pink, and i don't recall the 4th. The color is determined by exposing nobium to a gas for a different amount of time. Its a very rare and expensive metal. Then the mint released coins with a flower center in nobium, in a silver 7gr at $114 cad.
I love the old coins! That’s what I want to get into next.
Coin Guy is so fun to listen to, I gotta get a bag of those foreign coins lol
About the baby coin:
It’s called a Kerzen (candle) dreier (three piece)
It says: unser süssester Beruf (our sweetest job) ist das Glück der Liebe (is the luck of love)
The text is from a poem written by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (1746-1797)
Love your knowledge.love watching this channel I'm also a history buff of the old days. Love Alexander the great history.
Love speg and coinguy videos. Love coins and the history lessons as well. If it was a 4 hr video I'd watch it. Lol
I live in Scotland near the Hadrian's wall Romans left coins all over 2000 year old there worth very little unless made of gold ,old doesn't mean value ,we can't get enough of USA eagle,s ,they sell between 50/70 dollars each ,those are tax 20% but no tax on gold 🤔
Great vid guys, 20 pence is still a current UK coin. The Platypus coin is a current Australian 20 cents coin, also current. The British pound coins are the old version. The one is bimetallic, gold coloured with a silver centre.
Niobium (Ni o be um) is a metal used in a lot of stainless, aerospace industry materials.
another great fun video - I don't know any foreign coins so this is fun :) would like to see more by counrty maybe and time frame :) - keep it up guys you rock
At 19:19 you can see a "5 Deutsche Mark"- coin. 5 Deutsche Mark = 2.55 Euro . You can still change Deutsche Mark in Euro at the Central Bank in Germany.
I could be there all day going through the coins with y'all.......awesome
that Pegasus coin really is a beauty
The old guy at the Mccully Stamp & Coin shop in Honolulu used to give me little 10-pound jugs of foreign for $100. I miss him dearly. Once, I found a gold sovereign in there and it always had silver.
Those british pound coins are our old ones we now have two tone pounds hexagon/octogon shaped not sure if the banks still redeem though
I'd love to get my hands of those coins and pick out the ones I like the look of.
I need to order a bag of Foreign coins from Coin Guy maybe I'll get some Gold too 🤔 🤷♂️
Awesome pile of Foreign coins, I could dig through that for hours 😳
Yeah interesting Niobium bimetallic coin there - Austria 25 euros - renewable energy on the reverse. Niobium is worth about double the price of silver - sometimes a bit more and it's used in turbine engines, stainless steel and other alloys that need high heat resistance. I presume it's also used in wind turbines. Great looking blue - anodised it can be multiple colours - purple, green, blue but the elemental crystalline metal is silvery and forms square and pentagon shapes due to its electronic configuration. Not seen it in a coin before.
I would love to be able to go into his shop into Roman coins
Rick if you see something you like we can always ship.
The German 5 Mark in the years 1951, 1956 - 1961, 1963 - 1974 were made of silver (7g fine silver)
Thats why they are called the german silver eagle
1:52 ...ist das Glueck der Liebe (...is the Happiness of Love). Nice donative token for new born babies, probably early until mid 18th century. Minted in Germany or in the New World ? Greets from GER, U.
Hello from Uk- really enjoy watching these videos. The pound coins Guy found were legal tender till about 5 years ago- we now have a twelve sided one pound coin. Apparently there were so many fake round pound coins the royal mint had to update with the new coin which has more security features on it .
Thank you for the information.
Haha, I have actually sold him some of those owls you see on the shelves.
The platypus has a little barb, hook on one of it's back flippers. Poisonous for about the first year of life. If I remember right. Also look out for the Blue Ring octopus.🇺🇸🇦🇺
Fun video, thanx
That Austrian coin reminds me of my Kazakstan Astronaut coins. Silver on the outside and tantalum center. The colorization comes from soft of heat/electrolysis process.
I picked up a Moroccan Accaparadoxides genus trilobite about twice that size 20 years ago. It's one of my favorite fossils. Just a massive ancient bug!
Niobium coin call new gold!♥️
Hi SPEG on the first coin is written das gluck der liebe wich means the luck of love ;-)
Those are some really nice coins
Raid coin guy of all his silver....LOL... that would never happen. Guy would have ended up working at a museum if he did not own a coin shop. Amazing he still has a true passion for the hobby.
VERY COOL VIDEO MY FRIEND!
It's a member of the crustaceans it's like the second stage of multi cell evolution
Strange that it would be given **during** Baptism to ward off evil. Someting iconographic is not entirely out of question for Luthernaism, but it is more rare and seen as superstitious, so I am guessing this is Catholic. What I would guess is that it was given at Baptism as a *lifelong icon/medal,* probably of St. Benedict, to ward off evil thereafter, as ancient Catholics and we Orthodox give exorcisms at the moment of Baptism, making such a gesture unnecessary.
2:19 It says something like our sweetest … something is the luck of love ❤️ in German. Where Glueck is spelled incorrectly.
I've been accumulating foreign coins from the Coinstar machine at my job. I found an "ancient widow's mite" recently but it's a replica.
Trilobites look like a cymatic pattern.
Hey Guy And Speg I think the platypus has spurs that have glands or something I’m not an expert but they sure are unusual much love from Australia and all good things to you 🌈😇🙏©️💦✅🍎
great-video
That trilobite looks like an aunt of mine.
Constantine coin hoarders were either practicing gresham's law or they were trying to cause a recession hahaha
I love coin guy
Could you ask Coin Guy if Ancient Rome really flourished only with copper coins?
I saw a film by Bill Still saying that Rome's money started losing power after the rich introduced gold& silver coins (common folk didnt have). Wondered what he thought
How do you feel about Atocha coins?
The fossil is a trilobite 👍🏻
I ❤️ coins!
Contrary to the popular belief that got the movie gladiator brought on, there is no historical proof that emperor Commodus killed his father Marcus Aurelius. According to the historical accounts that we do have it is mostly unclear how he did meet his end but most historians do believe that he either died by natural means such as the plague or pneumonia, or the other popular theory is that while he was on campaign on the gallic front fighting against Germanic tribes in the marcomanic wars rumors went around the empire about him falling ill and a major usurper named Avidious Cassius tried to usurp the imperial throne, and Marcus Aurelius was forced to travel east to regain stability of the empire, but some historians believe that before Marcus Aurelius was able to put down the rebellion he was killed by his own troops in a mutiny. Neither of these theories have been completely proven but one thing is for sure, we do not have any proof for the rumors that have gone around ever since ancient times that his son Commodus or his wife Faustina had Marcus killed
Hello Speg , yay it’s guy.
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Another cool video thanks, we don’t see your face very often but we always see your hands in my thought is you are very soft hands whatever you do for a living you don’t use your hands , As they say you don’t work with your hands
I found a few coins from Israel the other day.
End came to fast,I wanted the dig my fingers into those coins.
I wouldn't laugh the kids that got the grab bags could of got 1/10oz gold coins! lol😅
Giant Potato Bug or rolly pollie
Omg older the better please take care of the fossil but could you please sale me the oldest coin you got i will call the shop as soon as i save enough money for it lol love the videos
Ancients are the best
EURO TOILET PAPER, ESPECIALLY COMPARED TO OUNCE OF GOLD!🙄
Darius!
How often does he restock the eBay store it's pretty empty right now
@@susanventre3526 I like to look at what I'm purchasing I think we all pretty much do thanks for responding
Any Tartarian coins?
That looks like a fossilized prehistoric pie.
watched
those pound coins arent legal tender any more there were alot of fakes around but that looks real
And yes King Xerxes father was King Darius the Great,
But not "king denarius the great" lol😂
Those animals are still alive today
Coin Guy 👋
thumbs up algorithm food
Nices so many coins of all the world
Seems like this show ended somewhat abruptly. . .
I have a couple of banks that give me foren coins
found two .50 silver dimes canda this way
Hey i got 2 trilobites!
oh nice!
Every world power lasts about 100 years. America is overdue. We were blessed, we have strayed away and our demise will follow.