Can anyone help please with C14 Arabic script? All I know about the coin below is it's supposed to be a Golden Horde dirham, C14-15, 1.23g. I...
My Charles II is at the other end of the scale to the crown: [ATTACH] Silver Halfgroat, 12mm, 1.01g, undated 'machine made' issue, 1662. CAROLVS...
Yes I have Britannia. I believe Hadrian was the first to depict her, and those are very expensive. This is Antoninus Pius: [ATTACH] Bronze As,...
The VIII on the obverse might be like the CEYHPOC on the right of the bust here (Septimus Severus):...
Yes you can go from William I to Edward VI and not be certain which king it is just by the portrait. (You probably have to go back to the Romans...
I can see why you thought Durotriges. Especially with the cup shape. This kind of thing (but not quite)...
This is interesting. How is it that we don’t get lots of these? It’s not as if clay soil is scarce. It’s a pity the original NAC listing from 2013...
It doesn’t help that CNG often seem to underestimate prices by quite a lot. Or even a big lot. Their estimates remind me of when the Texan asks...
I might be wrong but I believe when they say ‘from’ a collection it means directly from that collection, while ‘ex’ means it was previously sold...
The general population didn't have to. The authorities did. They wanted to stop counterfeiters. And they must've been able to tell, otherwise they...
Why wouldn't it stop counterfeiting? Or stop the currency being debased? If you insist your moneyers identify their coins, you know who is...
Isn't the legend [D]G PH[ILIP], possibly Philip III or IV of Spain? It also has IIII next to the castle for '4 Maravedis'. (And for it to be true...
Britain’s history is long and illustrious. Shakespeare, Newton and Darwin have reached every corner of the world. Yet while Alexander the Great...
Burying them in an urn in the ground for 2000 years seems to do the trick. It might fail your accessibility test though. Perhaps you could set up...
There's air already in the 2x2, and air can get into it via the cardboard (or even through the plastic). Air contains enough water to condense....
Condensation? Could be a change of temperature
The Russian one I remember from when I was there in 1997, just before they took 000s off the currency
Definitely. They're very different to the British ones, and the Romans. There are only about 10 emperors with portrait coins (excluding patterns...
Yes. This is absolutely true. Just don't ask for rumours about the Welsh.
I too collect British, Roman and Russian rulers. The problem I've found with Russian rulers, though, is the portrait coins are expensive. Lower...
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