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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

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Carthaginian coin with a crayfish, Sicily, Italy, ~3rd century BCE? (upload.wikimedia.org)

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

And accordingly to the fashion of a civilisation that calls its own capital “new city”, Kapara means simply “village”.

Gotta love that timeless human imagination.