Excellent coins, both!
Trajan, tetradrachm, Phoenicia, Tyre, 103-11 AD. Prieur 1498 14.3 grams [ATTACH] Next: Tyre
Chile, AR 50 centavos, 1891, Iquique, municipal issue. 10.53 grams [ATTACH] Germany, New Guinea, 1894 A (Berlin), 5 marks, "Bird of Paradise"....
I agree that a photo the coin should be sent to Sedwick for his opinion. As for the garbled legend, the coins from this period (roughly 1610s to...
Yes, the OP coin was struck over an earlier Louis XIV Écu, called reformation by collectors. This was a wide spread practice by the mints in the...
United States, twenty dollars, 1884, Carson City. [ATTACH]
Postumus Æ Double Sestertius. Treveri, AD 261. IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VIRTVS AVG,...
Haiti, Republic, 1 Gourde, 1881. KM 46 25.01 grams [ATTACH]
Peru, Ayacucho, 5 pesetas, 1882LM. Provisional issue. KM 201.3 [ATTACH] United States, Morgan dollar, 1884CC, in a GSA holder. [ATTACH]
France, The Commune of Paris (18 March to 28 May 1871), 5 francs, 1871 A, Trident privy mark. KM823 25.00 grams [ATTACH] France, Paris, silver...
I agree with much that has been posted. Coin prices have skyrocketed in recent years, across areas of collecting: ancients, world and US,...
Here are a couple: Mexico, 20 pesos, Guanajuato, 1872 S. KM 414.4 [ATTACH] Mexico, 8 reales, 1875 MP, Culiacan. Ink "chopmark". KM 377.3...
Though shown several times before, this is one of the more nicely toned ancients that I have. Syracuse, tetradrachm, Agathokles, 317-310 BC....
Here's one more Mexican Republic 8 reales from the Maximillian period, just photographed today. This is fairly common for this mint and period,...
Here some coins from that fateful year for the United States and México, 1863. Mexico Republic, 8 reales, 1863 ML, Ce (Real de Catorche). KM...
Mexico, Republic, Culiacan, 8 escudos, 1861CE. KM 383.2 [ATTACH]
I was going to say Celtic based on the style of the reverse horse (I assume that is what it is). It could be Greek.
Honduras, 1852T G, 4 reales. From Sedwick Treasure Auction 19, lot 1450. KM 20b 8.57 grams [ATTACH] India, Portuguese, Pedro V, Goa, rupia...
That's a very choice coin! Wonderful style.
Virtually all of the late Alexandrian Roman provincial tetradrachms from the mid to late 3rd century and early 4th century AD that I have seen are...
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