Post your coins with rulers who had been given nicknames

Mithradates the Great (Mithradates II):

 

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France/ Valois Kings
Jean II "le Bon" aka John the Good 1350-64
AV Mouton d'or ND
Unknown Mint
Coin was struck during the Black Death Plague

I brought that coin to Coin Club meeting for "show & tell" during COVID
Covid was childs play compared to that one.

 

Seleucus the Conqueror:

 

Muhammad bin Dawud Chaghri was called Alp Arslan (Heroic Lion):

 

Sicily/ Messina
AV 3 Tari ND
Messina Mint Friedrich II von Hohenstaufen 1198-1250
aka "Barbarosa" = red beard
After the death of Holy Roman Emperor Henrich VI von Hohenstaufen/ Friedrich inherited the throne as King of Sicily. However Constanza (Henry VI spouse) became Imperiatrix and Regent for the young King.

 

Khosrow the Victorious (Khosrow II):

 

Joao the Magnanimous (Joao V):

 

Kayqubad the Great (Kayqubad I)

 

A true "Great" captain of history....
Brandenburg-Pruessen
AV Friedrich's d'or 1777-A
Berlin Mint
Friedrich II "Der Grosse"

 

Leopold I 1665-1705 "the Hogmouth"
AV 1/12 Dukat 1690 SHS
Breslau Mint
Silesia/ Breslau

 

Caliph Harun al-Rashid (AD 786-809) was the Caliph of the "Arabian Nights" or "One Thousand and One Nights".


Abbasid Dinar Harun al-Rashid Baghdad AD 802 (AH 186)
Gold, 18.5 mm, 4.02 gm
Mint: Not named but Madinat Al Salam "City of Peace" (Baghdad)

Obverse:
Ring outer: Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. He sent him with the Guidance and a religion of the truth in order that he might cause it to be bright over the existing religion, although the polytheists disliked it
Field: Three lines, There is no god but Allah, He is One and has no partner, and Muhammad is His Messenger

Reverse:
Ring outer: In the name of God, this dinar was minted in the year 186
Ring inner: Ordered by Amir al-Amin Muhammad son of the Commander of the Faithful
Field: Three lines, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah

 

Aethelred the Unready. Transitional CRVX penny of Oxford.


Henry VIII - 'Old coppernose' from the wear resulting in exposed copper of the later debased issues. This one however is a second coinage piece in good metal. An episcopal halfgroat of Canterbury under Archbishop William Warham.