In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, you can tame animals to be your companion during fights. Why take a crappy animal, when you can tame the Nemean Lion!
and to show a coin that is somewhat related, how about this one:
Macedonian Kingdom: Alexander III ' the Great' (336-323 BCE) AR Tetradrachm, Arados (Price 3332; SNG Alpha Bank 675; SNG Saroglos 579-81)
Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress
Rev: Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; AΛEΞANΔPOY to right, BAΣIΛEΩΣ in exergue, kerykeion in left field, AP monogram
Dim: 25 mm, 17.13 g, 3 h
any other gamers? Anyone else care to post a pic and a coin?
In Uncharted - The Lost Legacy, one of the treasures to find is a Raja Raja Chola Gold Kahavanu:
So, the coin is as follows:
Ceylon: Raja Raja Chola (ca. 985-1014) AV Kahavanu (MNI-825)
Obv: King seated right, with arm on right raised and holding sankh shell; Devanagari legend on right, below raised arm - श्री रज रज (Sri Raja Raja)
Rev: Standing king with ancillary symbols, to left and right
No photos right now, but I would love to see a list pairing some Age of Empires civilizations and their respective coins.
(I have the remastered version of the first 3 games, the new 4th game is too much for my note)
Edit: now that you posted an Uncharted screenshot, I remembered of the Byzantine coins you could find in Rise of the Tomb Raider. I don't remember much more now.
That is absolutely correct! There are several coins in that game. For instance:
And the coin:
Japan, Ryukyu Islands: 100 Mon, ND (JNDA2008-134.1, KM-C100)
Obv: 琉球通寶 (Ryu Ku Tsu Ho)
Rev: 當百 (To Hyaku; value 100)
Edge stamped with サ (sa), the first syllable of Satsuma
Quote: "Quant-Geek"That is absolutely correct! There are several coins in that game.
Thanks, but the japanese coin is from "Tomb Raider" (the 2013 reboot). In the 2016 game there was a merchant that offered equipment using gold Byzantine coins as parallel currency.
Quote: "Quant-Geek"That is absolutely correct! There are several coins in that game.
Thanks, but the japanese coin is from "Tomb Raider" (the 2013 reboot). In the 2016 game there was a merchant that offered equipment using gold Byzantine coins as parallel currency.
Played all of the Tomb Raider games from the very beginning during the 90s, so excuse me if I get my games crossed as there were tons of them. I suspect you mean the following:
And that particular gold coin I do not have in my collection. It is the following coin:
Byzantine Empire: Constantine IX Monomachus (1042-1055), AV Histamenon nomisma
After that, I remembered of DuckTales Remastered.
Not only you collect coins in Mario style, but after the phases you can see Uncle Scrooge diving in his money bin full of coins.
I guess you could say I was a gamer since its inception.
First family in the neighbourhood to have PONG.
My older brother purchased an Apple Computer in 1976 (mother board serial # was less than 1000) which had an outstanding 4K of memory. Star Trek anyone?
As home computing "caught on", I still fondly remember DOOM.
Age of Empires (and Mythology) were favourites.
Played through the first three Assassins Creed games on my sons PS. Quite liked it.
Was the reigning house champion in MarioKart.
And of course, World of Warcraft. For a time I was considered "Leet", as in elite. My healing Priest was in high demand because 90% of the players wanted to brag about their kills. I kept them alive.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so. Mark Twain
Quote: "Peter M. Graham"I guess you could say I was a gamer since its inception.
First family in the neighbourhood to have PONG.
My older brother purchased an Apple Computer in 1976 (mother board serial # was less than 1000) which had an outstanding 4K of memory. Star Trek anyone?
As home computing "caught on", I still fondly remember DOOM.
Age of Empires (and Mythology) were favourites.
Played through the first three Assassins Creed games on my sons PS. Quite liked it.
Was the reigning house champion in MarioKart.
And of course, World of Warcraft. For a time I was considered "Leet", as in elite. My healing Priest was in high demand because 90% of the players wanted to brag about their kills. I kept them alive.
I saw this topic in the Forum and clicked on it, not expecting to be drawn into it like I am. Pong,Space invaders,Asteroids,Pacman. Doom was the best though. My kids got me into Tony Hawk and those skateboard games.Not so much nowadays.
When Pong 1st came out , it was the game to have. My brother and I were laid off our construction jobs, and we would drink beer and play pong all day. Yup, those sure were fun times! Thank you everybody for the topic.
Quote: "Peter M. Graham"I guess you could say I was a gamer since its inception.
First family in the neighbourhood to have PONG.
My older brother purchased an Apple Computer in 1976 (mother board serial # was less than 1000) which had an outstanding 4K of memory. Star Trek anyone?
As home computing "caught on", I still fondly remember DOOM.
Age of Empires (and Mythology) were favourites.
Played through the first three Assassins Creed games on my sons PS. Quite liked it.
Was the reigning house champion in MarioKart.
And of course, World of Warcraft. For a time I was considered "Leet", as in elite. My healing Priest was in high demand because 90% of the players wanted to brag about their kills. I kept them alive.
I guess you are showing your age, just like I will be . My weekends was spent oogling the local Radio Shack and eventually I got a Colecovision and a TI 99/4A home computer. Like you, Pong was one of the first games I played and than it was downhill from there. I played just about every PC game that came out by the time I graduated from College. I kept at it to this day, albeit, only when the wife lets me. I am currently playing Elden Ring...
Quote: "Peter M. Graham"My older brother purchased an Apple Computer in 1976 (mother board serial # was less than 1000) which had an outstanding 4K of memory. Star Trek anyone?
A Apple computer from 1976! that would be the “holy grail” Apple I which nowadays sell in the tens or on rare occasions hundreds of thousands of pounds, dollars.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
Quote: "Peter M. Graham"And of course, World of Warcraft...
Did you like the film as a fan ?
Never saw the film. I'll have to see if I can find a free version online (or maybe not, don't want to go down that time consuming rabbit hole again) .
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so. Mark Twain
Quote A Apple computer from 1976! that would be the “holy grail” Apple I which nowadays sell in the tens or on rare occasions hundreds of thousands of pounds, dollars.
Yes, but only working models. Ours was very well used and lived a long life. My father removed the mother board and framed it for my brother. Dad did a similar one for me on a later IBM with 640K of memory!! I still remember our 1st external floppy drive (5 1/4") for this unit, costing $2,200 Cdn.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so. Mark Twain
Quote: "rsirian1"Anyone have one of these? Six games, standalone (TV not included).
During the mid-70s to mid-80s, to get the NYC kids off the streets after school was done, grade schools had after-school sessions that lasted til 4:00PM where they brought out ping pong tables, foosball tables, arts & crafts, and video games including the above! I played some of those B&W video games on that box as well as the Vortex below. I loved these sessions and it was great! By the time summer came, they also had summer camps free-of-charge for all the kids with lunch provided! I *still* have some of those trophies I won at those camps. We also had older people come in to buy subsidized lunches from the city...
Quote A Apple computer from 1976! that would be the “holy grail” Apple I which nowadays sell in the tens or on rare occasions hundreds of thousands of pounds, dollars.
Yes, but only working models. Ours was very well used and lived a long life. My father removed the mother board and framed it for my brother. Dad did a similar one for me on a later IBM with 640K of memory!! I still remember our 1st external floppy drive (5 1/4") for this unit, costing $2,200 Cdn.
Too rich for my blood! I used cassette tapes to store my programs...
Quote... I still remember our 1st external floppy drive (5 1/4") for this unit, costing $2,200 Cdn.
What a budget
One floppy disc for the DOS and once loaded, another disc for Decathlon
For the really budget friendly computer user, you can buy double-sided floppy disks which where cheaper than two single sided floppy disks and pop that into your single-sided 5-1/4 inch drive. BUT, you must make sure you added a second notch to the floppy disk and literally FLIP IT OVER when you insert it. A handy-dandy hole puncher usually does the trick:
And YES, I still have a 5-1/4 inch floppy drive as well as a 3-1/2 inch floppy drive and a bunch of disks to go along with it...
To still make it somewhat relevant, here is a coin that has a nice hole on it. Its a very scarce follis of Nicephorus which you don't run into that frequently...
Quote: "Quant-Geek"
And YES, I still have a 5-1/4 inch floppy drive as well as a 3-1/2 inch floppy drive and a bunch of disks to go along with it...
I wish I had saved some of those floppies. I was a night-time computer operator and we used 8 inch floppies!
I did managed to save some parts from a 1st generation computer.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so. Mark Twain
Now that is cool! I never used the 8-inch floppies, but the mainframe at my alma mater still had mag tapes and a few of those floppies lying around when I was in school. Never had the opportunity to use any of the punch cards or the 8-inch drives as they were phased out a semester before I started (late 80s)...
Quote: "Quant-Geek"...Never had the opportunity to use any of the punch cards ...
I used punched cards on 1985 for the control computer of an oil refinery. We were programming temperature controls in Fortran and the next step was punching cards, then introduce cards in the compiler which in turn create new cards that we finaly introduce into the main computer !
And once apon a time my boss requested to remove the step of the cards by patching the computer in octal, not in machine language, but a little below: in octal and it lasted some weeks to succed.
Quote A Apple computer from 1976! that would be the “holy grail” Apple I which nowadays sell in the tens or on rare occasions hundreds of thousands of pounds, dollars.
Yes, but only working models. Ours was very well used and lived a long life. My father removed the mother board and framed it for my brother. Dad did a similar one for me on a later IBM with 640K of memory!! I still remember our 1st external floppy drive (5 1/4") for this unit, costing $2,200 Cdn.
Interesting to know.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
Quote: "Quant-Geek"...Never had the opportunity to use any of the punch cards ...
I used punched cards on 1985 for the control computer of an oil refinery. We were programming temperature controls in Fortran and the next step was punching cards, then introduce cards in the compiler which in turn create new cards that we finaly introduce into the main computer !
And once apon a time my boss requested to remove the step of the cards by patching the computer in octal, not in machine language, but a little below: in octal and it lasted some weeks to succed.
The closest I ever got to punch cards was seeing my dad's bank statements. They were all punch cards back in the 70s and 80s.
Guys, what can you say about the game "(Дневник Купца - Тайна Последней страницы) Diary of a Merchant - Secret of the Last Page"?"?
The game is quite old, 2012, respectively, and the graphics there are terrible.
In the game, you can not only just look for various finds, but also complete quest tasks, solving the mystery of the merchant's treasure, reading an old diary. And all finds at any time are allowed to evaluate and sell.
But if you get involved deeper, the atmosphere is addictive and even a certain excitement appears.
This winter, having missed the shovel and the squeak of a metal detector, I accidentally found this game in the public domain (albeit a pretty tormented one). I can say that she pretty much dispelled my boredom. I have been looking for other games of this type - metal detector simulator, but they are almost non-existent on PC. This game is unique in its kind.
beautiful nature of Russia (based on real locations in the Kursk region)
Interesting finds.
but do not expect to find only coins, there is also a whole bunch of rubbish
All finds are archived even after the sale
But the most valuable rarities cannot be sold. They remain in the collection - to amuse the vanity of the treasure hunter.
most importantly, look under your feet, beware of rusty nails, snakes and hedgehogs
And most importantly - watch out for the bear....!
Here the bear is not lucky ... ((((
Interesting. I never played it, but then again, I rarely played any game that wasn't targeted for English players. Might have to look this one up as it seems worthwhile. Thanks for sharing...
Some_NerdI've never played it myself, but I believe that "Red Dead Redemption 2" has coins that you can collect.
I've played that extensively and you can not. However if you look closely enough at the money in cash registers or when buying things it matches the designs at that era.
When I first started playing, I stumbled upon this majestic Nemean Lion. I couldn't resist the challenge of taming it as my companion. I mean, why settle for a regular animal when you can have a powerful and fierce lion by your side? It was totally worth it! And the AR Tetradrachm from the Macedonian Kingdom with Alexander the Great's image on it is simply awe-inspiring. The level of artistry and history on this coin is mind-boggling. I'd also like to ask experienced players a question I'm concerned about.
Quant-GeekIn Assassin's Creed Odyssey, you can tame animals to be your companion during fights. Why take a crappy animal, when you can tame the Nemean Lion!
Exciting to see someone else love this game. Your original post was Mar. 2022 and a year and a half later I've been enjoying this game with my wife; we both have ~180hrs each. That being said drachmae value tends to be a bit inflated. If 1 drachma should value a historical daily wage for example, how can Kassandra obtain 2 million drachmae in one gameplay?
Kenny
- Verifying your Asian and British-territorial coins everyday with the best quality photos and the best information.
Enjoy the game, Kenny and don't get to caught up on the fictitious part of the game 😁. I haven't played the follow-up to this game, even though I have it. I am just too busy at the moment…
Interesting, my wife and I have been playing Assassin's Creed Valhalla (@Quant-Geek, the critically divisive follow-up) and the in-game currency is “silver”, probably avoiding the use of “penny” that would confuse many players accustomed to today's very low valued denomination. Likely the coin is based on this one here, as visualized in the orlag matches throughout the game
Kenny
- Verifying your Asian and British-territorial coins everyday with the best quality photos and the best information.
Quote: "Some_Nerd"I've never played it myself, but I believe that "Red Dead Redemption 2" has coins that you can collect.
Stop what you are doing and go and play it now. See you in 3 to 6 months!! (there is no coin collecting but there is Cigarette Cards)
There is coin collecting in RDR2 Online (not the original single player game); here's the list.
1800 Gold Quarter 1798 Draped Bust Silver Dollar N#23359 (not sure of the eagle type in game) 1787 One Cent Token 1794 Silver Dollar N#30317 1700 New Yorke Token 1800 Five Dollar Bechtier 1792 Quarter N#102975 ? 1890 Gold Dollar 1792 Nickel N#25428 ? 1796 Halfpenny 1795 Half Eagle N#25381 1797 Gold Eagle N#25382 1792 Liberty Quarter 1800 Half Dime N#30341 1789 Penny
Anyone please feel free to update/add any link to the list. There's more detail on the coins in-game but I don't have the game (sure is making me curious though). At any rate, the entire collection sells in-game for $540 (in 1898 dollars). I daresay there'd be a few more zeroes if you had this collection today.
The discussion on Numista about the evolution of coin collecting as a hobby is genuinely fascinating. It's incredible to see how passionate individuals come together to share their knowledge, insights, and experiences with numismatics. This exchange not only enriches our understanding but also connects us across different cultures and histories through the art of collecting. For those who appreciate the intersection of history, art, and gaming, exploring similar passions on platforms like https://www.vpesports.com/ can offer a modern twist to traditional hobbies. It's heartwarming to see communities thrive by embracing diverse interests and hobbies. Keep sharing and learning!
. My weekends was spent oogling the local Radio Shack and eventually I got a Colecovision and a TI 99/4A home computer. Like you, Pong was one of the first games I played and than it was downhill from there. I played just about every PC game that came out by the time I graduated from College. I kept at it to this day, albeit, only when the wife lets me. I am currently playing Elden Ring... 
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and it lasted some weeks to succed. 
