It is the Hand of God, crowning Alexius.
I diverted from my usual interest in Byzantine copper to buy this gold piece because of its fantastic reverse design: [ATTACH] Look at the...
I don't even know what these are! But, in 2004 I bought three CDs with lots of pictures of them and I don't know what else. [ATTACH] One was...
Isn't CoinTalk a type of "social media"? I don't do Facebook but I do do CoinTalk!
The last one looks like the prototype was a coin of Valentinian III. Maybe one of these two types: [ATTACH] AE4. ROMA gateway, star above...
Here is mine: [ATTACH] 21 mm. 5.44 grams,. Lindgren and Kovacs, 1250, same obverse die. SNG Copenhagen 86, same obverse die. IMP CAE...
Heraclius (610-641) was the Byzantine emperor at the time. [ATTACH] Heraclius, year 1 (610/611) 27 mm. 11.05 grams. Sear 833 overstruck, with...
Right! Doug, I hope you understand that we are wanting to see them again!
There are many ancient imitations stuck in the time of Constantine. CoinTalk had a thread started by @Victor_Clark with some recently:...
That link doesn't work for me, but this one does:...
I stipulate that since covid the market has been hot and in many cases ridiculously hot. However, until 2020 the market was not "hot." The...
@Gam3rBlake , that coin is a real beauty. Are you going to crack it out? Augustus minted a wide variety of attractive coins. I assembled...
I have all of RIC and use it every day (I'm retired and do lots of coin research for fun). If you only want the ID number of a coin, you can...
That is a serious misrepresentation. An old and famous pedigree can make a big difference in the price. Some collectors won't even buy coins...
@kirispupis provided a link (to LeFigaro.fr) which lead to other links by clicking on its tag "treasure."...
We read about finds and compensation in England many times a year. How come we almost never hear about hoards found in France and "fair...
Ah! Apparently someone thinks/hopes laws can eliminate damage. Really? My previous post was arguing for a realistic approach. I like...
That is an argument, which archaeologists should acknowledge, for changing national laws to be more like those in England, where far more finds...
[SOLD] If a book or article is old enough, it is out of copyright and Google may have scanned it and put it on the web. It seems some people...
The bandwagon tells us this coin is nothing like it was originally. I disagree. (Okay, you can pile on now.) Look closely at the Elsen picture...
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