That is odd. Longstanding traditions die hard.
I'll try to take some snaps of the 50 taels sycee over the weekend. My understanding is that the sycee, at least in the 19th-20th centuries, and...
In 2015 I purchased a group lot of Southeast Asia ingots at the Sedwick Auction of October 28-30 2015. Here's part of that lot, three tiger...
You have what is commonly referred to as a saddleback sycee. They're one of the most common forms, issued in Yunnan and they're very cool, with...
Sestertius, Annona reverse, 181 AD BMC 442 note, citing Naville II, 1922, 1027 (same dies as this coin); bust variety of C 4-5 and BM 442-445....
That's a very nice Otho denarius, @Gam3rBlake! My only coin for this emperor is a tetradrachm of Antioch, 69 AD, in pretty much "as found"...
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