I'm fairly sure that it is meant to be a rhinoceros. From a couple of centuries BC, well into medieval times, Arab Persian, Egyptian and Jewish...
It is probably worth pointing out that many of those who work in London, from top professionals to junior clerks, live a long way out outside...
[ATTACH] I would say that your ha'penny is clearly Spinks 1540A, is similar to the one above. All the ha'pennies of Edward III's second coinage,...
The 1805 Carolus IIII coin is an 8 maravedis from the Segovia mint
I am not a collectors of ancient coins, though I have a few from finds, but those London prices seem VERY reasonable to me!
It is a pleasant enough piece, but as a coin collector I don't really consider items such as these as coins. They are never meant for use, they...
A gold tremissis of Sisebutus, king of Hispania and Septimania (the area in the bottom right-hand corner of south-east France, around Nimes). He...
According to Mary Beard (SPQR, p.280): "The standards [lost by Crassus] remained a proud piece of Parthian booty until the emperor Augustus, by...
Google il ducato di Milano moneta and you will get some very good pictures of trillina quattrino etc
A biscione, a big snake, was the coat of arms of the Visconti family who held the duchy of Milan for several centuries, and it continued to be...
The first part of my reply went missing! My opening sentence was to the effect that the 1939 farthing is the second most common date for...
n the whole of the 20th Century, the 1939 farthing had the second biggest mintage figures, 31.4 million, after 1943 with 33.3 million. The lowest...
It is very clearly an imitation, I wouldn't even call it a reproduction
The story is that Lady Godiva's husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia, introduced new taxes that the poorer people were unable to pay. She begged him...
Matthew, look at your own coin. On the obverse after the letter X there is a stop, or dot, or period, call it what you will. And on the reverse,...
Just a little more info for you on your coin. There are three varieties of the 1773 farthing. The first (and rarest) has no stop after REX; the...
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