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Pisonet: Internet Vending Machine That Sells You Five Minutes of Internet Access in the Backstreet of ManilaIn first world countries like the United States, we don't often think of our broadband Internet access unless the wi-fi is down. But in many parts of the world, getting on the Internet turns out to be quite a challenge in and of itself.Take, for example, how poor people who live in the slums of central Manila, the  capital of the Philippines, get on the web. There, Internet connection is still required for daily life - paying bills, communicating via emails and getting school assignments, for example, not to mention for entertainment like playing an online game. But paying a monthly fee for Internet access is out of reach for many of the residents of the backstreets of city.The solution is a pay-as-you-go system called the Pisonet. Filipinos from poor or underprivileged households access the Internet through a vending machine-style PC: put one Philippine peso (about two cents) into a pisonet stall and a timer starts counting down from 5 minutes.After the five minute is up, the computer doesn't disconnect from the Internet. Instead, the monitor goes blank until the customer puts in another peso. In this sense, coin is truly the currency of the pisonet Internet.Photo by: Kimberly dela Cruz for Rest of World#Internet #Manila #Pisonet #Peso #coin

Hungry Badger Led to the Discovery of Roman Coins in a Spanish CaveWhen archeologists received a phone call about what turned out to be the largest Roman hoard to have been discovered in a Spanish cave, the caller was a local man, but the culprit was no other than a badger.Archeologist Alfonso Fanjul Peraza and colleagues uncovered 209 coins from the Late Roman period (200-400 AD) which could have possibly been hidden by Romans fleeing from barbarians. Of these coins, the badger had dug out nearly half. The coins were found lying around the hole leading to the badger's nest in the La Cuesta cave in the Asturias region of northwest Spain.For the badger, it might have been a mundane week of nest-building and food-hunting, but for humanity, it may help expand our knowledge on the eventual fall of the Roman Empire.#archaeology #coin #RomanCoin #RomanEmpire #badger

A Heist Movie (or a Heist) Waiting to HappenWhat makes a coin more valuable than its face value? Rarity. And you can't get much rarer than the 1933 British penny, of which there are only seven. The mint wasn't going to make any at all, but they were needed for a royal tradition. Five of those coins are accounted for, and one is missing. The seventh is ...somewhere in that area over there, but good luck getting to it.

Over 6,000 Silver Coins From the Middle Ages Discovered During a Renovation Project in AustriaA museum in Upper Austria has obtained a set of silver coins from the late Middle Ages. More than 6,000 coins were discovered during a renovation in Rainbach, Upper Austria. The old currency was wrapped in fabric and hidden inside a clay pot, according to the OÖ Lande-Kultur GmbH museum.The hidden stash contained different kinds of coinage, which are the following: -‘halves,’ which pfennigs and their half-pieces, -‘Prague groschen,’ larger coins from Bohemia -‘snake groschen,’ also known as Milanese pegioni-Tiroler Kreuzer, a type of coin of high qualityBoth the owner and the total value of the coins remain unknown and will be the subject of scientific study.Image credit: Michael Maritsch/Zenger#Coin #Currency #AncientCurrency #MiddleAges #Artifacts #UpperAustria 

Cut Coin Collages by Micah AdamsIndie artist Micah Adams created some fantastic mashups out of cut coin. Here are some of my faves.