Very nice coin! I think the test cut looks like Philetairos was in a knife fight, and came very near to getting his throat slit...
@seth77 is correct, the coin is from the Kingdom of Axum, which was located in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea. The inscription on both sides is...
On the coin boxed in red: [ATTACH] I can make out "la razon". Chile used the slogan "Por la razon o la fuerza" on their coins in the late 19th...
My earliest is a 100 centimes from Year 26 (1829): [ATTACH]
Very nice sub-collection and write-up @John Conduitt . I have one of the "Malik of Kurzuwan" coins (which Album notes is one of the very few...
Great coin @DonnaML , and an informative write-up as usual. I don't have any gold for Arcadius, but do have a decent silver siliqua: [ATTACH]
"AE" in ancient numismatics is just a general term used to indicate a coin is of a copper or bronze alloy. When the AE is followed by a number, it...
Yes, this, a thousand times. To be fair, the dates for Persia are good for the Achaemenids, though it's not like no other great Persian empire...
@The Eidolon : I think your first coin is 16.360, based on the shape of the character Yuan. The difference in color is probably due to conditions...
Yeah, I'm throwing in one more vote for fantasy piece. The date is Year 1 of Qianlong, but the dragon design and overall layout are from a...
On further review, I think this is what is known as "Tianxia Taiping" coins. The reverse inscription is read as "tian xia tai ping" (Heaven below...
Does it have the Type I reverse?
I have a related coin, also of Domitian from Caesarea Maritima, which may or may not be intended as a Judaea Capta type: [ATTACH] I summarized the...
Looks to be a charm (like the piece in your other thread), this is also copying a Value 1,000 coin of Xianfeng (1851-1861) but from the Board of...
The basic design copies a Value 1,000 cash coin of the Xianfeng emperor (1851-1861) from Board of Revenue mint, though the oddities in the script...
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