the nail story is just that... a story
it was qi that was last to be conquered. placemarkers implies something temporary... scarabs wouldn't be
600-300 bc is often the range for punchmark coins
there are online date conversion sites as well as a formula that I don't recall. note: is is not as simple as adding 622 to the AH date as the...
perhaps the janapadas were ruled by an assembly who advised the king, hence republic? also, buddha was never a king. nor was he depicted on coins...
how can excavators differentiate these from common rocks?
how can one be certain coins dated to the shang were made then, or were actually made later?
scyphate and they were quite thin
I can verify that they are indeed less common than copper or gold
confucius never minted any coins.am unsure whether lu, the state he spent most of his time in, made any during his lifetime
october 1990
which issues? atabegs, zangids, and seljuks, among others when they entered asia minor. more recently, various persian civic coinage as well as...
post-reform portraiture on coins is more common than one might think, esp. among turkic peoples after they converted to islam. I published an...
not easy to collect? no more or less than any other region
he did not reach much beyond the banks of the indus before being forced by his troops to withdraw.
Alexander did NOT conquer india...
minor nit: yuan
cent and penny are technically different. the former based on decimal system, whie the latter being based on what became the pound/shilling/pence...
the kushan did not form their kingdom until around the time of christ. if you mean c. 130 bc, this would have been a different kingdom
why keep old attribution? they either don't know. or want the money from a rarer item...
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