World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

It would cost 1.6M euros/ or more. I know that if I owned it/ I would look at it, every nite before bedtime/ and sleep well

 

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The Afghani Gold Mohur of Ahmad Shah Durrani that I ordered from Oxus Numismatics arrived today and it is even more beautiful in person than in the pictures!

 

Its amazing how photos are taken. Heritage are experts/ their auction photos make coin look better then in hand. However some auctions/ dealers do bad job, so coin looks much better then foto. Of course a bad foto can mean less interest for higher bids.

 

Apart from having a coin shop, they also hold auctions, so hopefully I will manage to win a nice gold coin at their next auction: https://www.oxusauctions.com/auction

 

Question does the Friedberg 10th ed. book have listing of Sasanian gold coins?

 

No, it doesn't.

 

Gee! I wonder why? Any Merovingian coins?

 

No, I don't see any under "France".

 

I think Friedberg should look into adding these. I do not think they have good sources for coinage from
visigoths/ merovingians/ sasanians.

 

Yes, and another thing I would like to see added is a section which lists in which museums the really rare gold coins are located.

 

Empire of the Romans Gold Solidus of Maurice Tiberius:

 

Nice one!

Maurice Tiberius was my second ever Byzantine coin/ my first was Justinian I. I have the AV Tremissis/ AV Semessis from him too.
i still need 1/6
solidus very RRRRR
There is also solidus from his son/ Theodosius III 608-9AD.
Last one sold Heritage Auction for big money. I just got two more solidi from him/ Carthage Mint and Antioch Mint.

 

Thanks! My only issue with it is that I don't know whether it was minted in the 6th or 7th century, so I don't know under which century to file it.

 

Maurice wa emperor from 602-10AD
He suceeded Tiberius II Constantine 578-82 in 582AD In 602AD a nasty guy named Phocas usurped power/ and made himself emperor. So, he had Maurice Tiberius and his son Theodosius III thrown into a dungeon. He then had them executed. He forced the Father to watch his son get his head chopped off/ then the guy with the axe/ removed Maurice's head Correction from other post/ his son had coins struck in his name (Theodosius III) in 601AD)
So your coin is 5th century.

 

You mean 6th century? And yes, Phocas vas very nasty, and he was also vastly incompetent, thus weakening the Empire of the Romans considerably (if his rebellion and (mis)rule didn't happen, maybe the Empire of the Romans would still be around).

 

Well, we had first the Seljuks Turks decimate Romanus IV at Manzikert/ then my hero Mehmet II finished them/ later went on to destroy the worst monster, Vlad Tepes "the Impaler" of the nasty Wallachian Voivode in 1462. Of course one Josef Stalin took over the title by killing 50M+ (14M) Ukrainians in 1928-34.

 

I would like to buy his Gold Sultani.

 

Recently graded and I think the wear of the host coin affected their opinion of the counterstamp.

 

I have about 90 AV coins from Ottoman Empire/ Turkish Republic. Still need Mehmet II Bayazid I/ Ahmad II.

 

These three picked up today, all upgrades.
GB 1708 E Half Crown (Edinburgh)
GB 1743 Halfpenny
GB 1918 Penny