The Forgotten Gear That Came Before Antikythera A few years ago I was in the history museum in Olbia, Sardinia, when I came across this little fragment. I almost walked past it. I never see it discussed, but it feels important.Everyone knows the Antikythera Mechanism — the 2,000-year-old Greek “computer” recovered from a shipwreck. A common line is that nothing else like it has ever been found.This gear says otherwise. It was excavated in Olbia in 2006. Brass. Originally about 43 mm across with an estimated 55 teeth. Dated to the late 3rd or mid-2nd century BCE — older than the Antikythera device.Same precision gearing. Same Hellenistic world. It is not a missing piece of the Antikythera Mechanism. Those fragments are all in Athens. This is a separate find. What it suggests is that the famous machine was not a one-off miracle. There was almost certainly a line of advanced geared technology that led to it.Ancient engineering was more sophisticated — and more widespread — than we used to think.#AncientHistory #Archaeology #Antikythera #Hellenistic #AncientTechnology

This beautiful toned nickel was brought by our booth earlier this year in Raleigh. Captured using the Halumin-C and a iPhone

This beautiful toned nickel was brought by our booth earlier this year in Raleigh. Captured using the Halumin-C and a iPhone

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They say nothing else like the Antikythera Mechanism was ever found.

Assembly of a Halumin-C prototype for coin photography and small collectibles in about 1 minute.

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This beautiful coin came right out of it’s owners pocket and into the Halumin-C at our booth in Cincinnati. We captured this using only the Axial Light (slider 1) on the Halumin-C . Sometimes the best results are simple.

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Halumin-C is on the move. From Las Vegas to Cincinnati we are visiting shows and talking to coin collectors. Remember, we have 1 week left on our Kickstarter. Tell your friends and back us for the best deals!

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Ancient Coin photos can mean many things. If you are selling, you want a realistic depiction of what the coin really looks like but if you are educating or examining you want to see what is depicted even if it’s quite worn down. The Halumin-C allows you to both with ease.