Here's a coin I posted a couple of years ago, with my description from then: [ATTACH] apan, Nagasaki trade coinage. c.1668-1685. Gen Ho Tsu Ho....
[ATTACH] Sasanian Kingdom. Court mint. AR drachm. Yazdegard I (399-420 AD). Obverse: Bust of Yazdegard I right, legend in Pahlavi script...
I see @Spaniard has already correctly identified the mint and date for this coin (I usually do that for Sasanian coins around here, but I was out...
Very nice coin! I have a coin of Otacilia Severa (wife of Philip I) from Nisibis with the same reverse type: [ATTACH]
When I saw the title, I thought "Did @svessien lose part of his collection?" :woot: I know that quite a few early Islamic coins (Abbasids,...
[ATTACH] Kushan Kingdom. Kanishka I (c.127-147 AD). AE didrachm (or double unit, or half unit) (8.07 g). Obverse: King standing with trident...
I agree that the letters behind the bust on late Parthian tetradrachms are almost certainly mint officina markers. But that still doesn't...
I have several coins relevant to this topic. First, a drachm and an AE chalkos of Vologases VI: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] A drachm of his brother,...
I sold the majority of my Parthian collection through CNG a few years ago. I found them helpful and easy to work with, and was overall quite...
I have a halved (actually, closer to 1/3) Parthian drachm of Mithradates I (c.171-138 BC): [ATTACH] It's a fairly rare coin type, struck in...
I have quite a few worn but still attractive coins in my collection. I especially like this as of Antonia Minor, issued during the reign of...
I posted this not long after I joined, but most who were around then have probably forgotten it, and we have many new members since then, so...
@David Atherton : Make sure you check those coins carefully for errors. Errors are very common in circulating US coins, and are always worth big...
Quite a few Parthian kings took the throne by murdering their predecessors (often their own father or brother), so Phraatakes was not really...
Well, I could be completely wrong in my ID. Greek is really not my strongest area of numismatic knowledge. And it sounds like the reverse is...
My "gut" reaction is Hieron II of Syracuse (270- 215 BC), his most common coin resembles this.
All right, time to share again my Julius Caesar lifetime portrait denarius (from January-February 44 BC): [ATTACH] My original write-up on the...
[ATTACH] India, Saurashtra-Malwa-Gujarat region (?). AR drachm. Anonymous "Gadhaiya Paisa" type derived from Sasanian precursors, early period...
[ATTACH] Elymais. AE drachm. "Prince B" (3rd century AD). Obverse: Diademed bust of king left, anchor and crescent behind. Reverse: Athena...
Reverse reads "Pautalio..." so I'd assume Pautalia in Thrace. I also think I can make out "Geta" on the obverse, in front of the bust (unless I'm...
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