I find myself being drawn more towards gold lately. I got a group of kidarite gold recently. They weigh almost a quarter ounce each. Something about that much ancient gold in your hand is just cool. I could really see myself buying more central asian gold, and maybe some more byzantines as well here in the near future. Otoh, i still cannot resist quantiity. Frank Robinson has a large group of elamite bronzes, singly, in small groups and in groups of 20 or 50. One guess as to what i ordered.
Those are some good looking Byzantine coins. And some good history and background. The more and more I look at them the more I want one, now I gotta go search for one.
Here are my two ol' Byzantine buddies!! Byzantine Empire, Sassanian occupation of Egypt AE12 Nummi / Khusro II circa 618-628 A.D. Diameter: 19.66 mm Weight: 8.26 grams Obverse: Cuirassed bust of Khusro facing, wearing crown with simple cross, star to left, C to right Reverse: Cross on globe between I-B, AAEE in exergue Other: A very nice example of this scarcer type Justinian I AE Follis (558-559 A.D. (Year 32) Diameter: 30.7 mm Weight: 17.3 grams Obverse: Helmeted and cuirassed bust of Justinian I, holding globus cruciger and shield Reverse: Large M
I fail to understand this issue. Sear Byzantine page 163 covers it as #855 attributing it to "Khusru II, King of Persia?" including the question mark. There is also #856 which is noted as heavier and including a crescent with the cross on top of the portrait. Before it is #853 showing Heraclius bearded with Heraclius Constantine with two step cross potent between them and a bungled obverse legend. Following is #857 with short beard (italics are Sear's) and three steps on the cross and no obverse legend. My coin lacks the cross between but has short beard and a pretty good legend naming Heraclius. I have no idea where it fits in the scheme of things. The boy's portrait is something of a stick figure opening the possibility that the coin is unofficial but all this requires an understanding of the coins I do not have.
First- did anyone notice medoraman posted a pic!! Second- I want that coin, really bad! Third- you guys have great taste.
Seller's pic. I wanted one of these for a while, and found this one from a seller I bought from. He listed it as a byzantine coin. I paid I think around $30-40. He is the same seller I got groups of nabatean bronzes from, maybe 200 or so. I would pick Steve's example over mine, but I am happy enough with mine.
I enjoy collecting Byzantine coins. This is an excellent example of a Follis usually they aren't as well struck and the forward facing image is as clear and definded as this one. As soon as I figure how to post images here I add some of mine.
Thank you SKI, Welcome nice to see you made it over here...i know you have some awesome Byzantine coins as well..:hail:
:welcome: Welcome to CoinTalk. Here is an old thread describing how to post images at CT: http://www.cointalk.com/t8565/
Hey Ski, it's pretty easy. It must be if an old fool like me can figure it out. I'm looking forward to seeing your Byzantine coins, even the one's I've already seen.
I'm not an old fool, but a fool none-the-less, Glad you made it. Can't wait to see ALL the coins you got.
Sadly my only Byzantine (an anonymous Romanus III) has been slowly but relentlessly eating itself due to BD over the last year. No matter how much soaking I give it it looks like it has survived 1000 years just to disintegrate 'on my watch'. Your monster Justinian l is fantastic Eng, I wouldn't want to guess what it cost you but suspect your coin club friend just wanted it to go to a good home so I'm guessing you got a very good deal indeed :thumb:
SKI .... helloooooooo => awesome to have you back in the mix!! ... I've missed hearing from you!! :b8nce:
Get aggressive then. Get a dental pick and scrape it out of there. If it will not stop, as its custodian you owe it to the coin to stop it. Mechanically removing it, then soak again in VC, will stop it.
dougsmit wrote => dougsmit => sorry, I tried to find your Heraclius Bust in ERIC II (pages 1300-1301) and although there were several that were "almost" the same as your coin's bust, sadly I could not find an identical bust ... ... however, I do think that your coin rocks!!
Unfortunately I have already medoraman, I scrape it back aggressively until I'm just metal on metal but within a couple of weeks it starts again, its like its shedding layers. Most of the obverse is now gone, reverse is still ok, I've 'cured' coins before but this one just wont take the treatment sadly.
