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Entwined thistles and roses and an image of Britannia with a sailing ship in the background

British Colonial Issue rupee of George V, King of the United Kingdom, 1918

A British broadside celebrating William Pitt, and London merchants and traders who declared to continue to accept paper money at a time of financial crisis caused by the Jacobite Rising and other events in 1745


The Jacobite Rising of 1745, the…

This set of four bronze horses that originally included a quadriga (chariot for racing), after the sack of Constantinople in 1204, the horses were placed on the exterior of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, where they remained until Napoleon took them in…

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Lamp in the form of a lion, striding forward and holding a shell-shaped spout in his open mouth. A hole at the top of the mane, covered by a separately made hinged lid, allowed the lamp to be filled. A ring and loop just in front of the…

The so-called Byzantine Church in Petra is one of three Byzantine Churches in the city, the other two are the Ridge Church (also called the Red Church) and the Blue Chapel. It is generally The Byzantine Church is thought to have been built in the…