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I have about 300 Chinese cash that I collected a while ago (90s- early 00s) that I IDed by Schjoth number, but haven't done anything with them...
There was a major countermarking of all Brazilian circulating copper in 1835, including this coin that started out in 1825 as 80 reis but was...
It's not Japanese, it's Chinese, Qianlong emperor (1736-1795), Board of Revenue mint. No date on the coin, sometimes these can be narrowed down a...
[ATTACH] Abbasid Caliphate. Armenia mint. AR dirham. 145 AH (762/3 AD), time of Caliph al-Mansur (136-158 AH/ 754-775 AD). Anonymous type,...
I went to the Baltimore Whitman Expo in November and agree that it's a good show for ancients. Regarding "medications", there was no requirement...
@+VGO.DVCKS : Glad you enjoyed my coin and thread. Sadly, I can't take credit for alerting you to those authors- I'm afraid I've read very...
Just to keep things numismatic, here's my most related coin, a very rare issue of the Khazars: [ATTACH] And my original write-up:...
Actually, Nero did issue some semisses that were marked with an S as a denomination. The SC that is so common on Roman Imperial bronzes stands...
Maybe it's a gaur? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaur (link is informational only, not commercial)
[ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. Traxiane mint. AR drachm (3.36 g). Orodes II (57-38 BC). Obverse: King's bust diademed left, crescent behind....
My first ancients purchase was a group of several LRBs from a local coin store in the winter of 1992/3. The first one of these that I was able to...
The only ancient nickel coins I'm aware of were minted in Bactria (which was certainly Hellenistic, though I wouldn't call it "Greece" as it's...
Here's two coins I picked up at the Baltimore show last November: [ATTACH] Coin 1: Sasanian Kingdom. AR drachm. Hormazd IV (579- 590 AD),...
This is a great post, and now I feel a need to get a nice 1.2 or 1.3 for myself...
Congrats @furryfrog02 on the newest tadpole! I guess my most related coin would be this denarius of Faustina II with reverse of...
I have a very well-worn but (I think) still decently attractive As of Antonia, with the usual reverse of her son Claudius: [ATTACH]
Here's a sestertius reverse type that hasn't appeared in this thread yet, Victory inscribing a shield VIC PAR to honor Roman victory against the...
A lot of my collection was minted in Iran (and surrounding areas of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan). I would like to visit Iran someday, as...
I have a few imitative, my favorite is this imitation of a Constantine I with reverse of two Victories inscribing shield. The artistic style is...
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