Here's another coin I won this year: [ATTACH] Hephthalites in Northern Tokharistan, Kobadian. AR/billon drachm (30 mm, 2.78 g). Anonymous, c....
A story I heard from a fellow student at college in the early 90s: She is Jewish and grew up in Minnesota. When she was about 12, another girl...
I've been quiet lately due to being busy at work, but I'm still kicking and still collecting, so I'll take a few minutes to catch up on posting my...
I've posted this coin previously, but it's such a lovely little coin that I don't mind showing it off again: an obol of Eukratides I: [ATTACH]
To quote from Richard Plant's invaluable book "Arabic Coins and How to Read Them", p.8: "One other fact must be noted, that in the 800's and...
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I'm already in Baltimore, and I greatly enjoyed going to the Fall Whitman shows pre-pandemic, so (assuming the COVID resurgence isn't too bad by...
I don't know if there is a well-defined "set" that collectors of Crusader coins seek, there are several members here who specialize in Medieval...
I have a well-worn example of the RR denarius featuring Marsyas: [ATTACH] And a bronze of Elagabalus from Berytus (Beirut) featuring a statue of...
I have one of the Claudius Alexandria diobols: [ATTACH] And some real hippos that I saw on safari in Tanzania back in 2015: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I won two coins. Despite my general collecting focus on the Near East, both my wins were from North African cultures. Well, that's at least...
I tend to grade on the conservative side, I'd grade it a solid Fine+. (The difference between "Fine+" and "almost VF" is left as an exercise for...
That's a very nice OP coin (and the other examples shown), it's one of the types I have on my informal "want list" but haven't found the right...
It took me a long time to find my current avatar coin, a tetradrachm of the Parthian king Artabanos IV (c.10-38 AD). The heavily off-center...
On the reverse, it looks like the inscription starts out "Perga...", so maybe search through coins of Pergamon?
No worries, I was just making a joke. Here's a tetradrachm of Seleukos I Nikator (305-281 BC), in the name of Alexander and struck at Babylon:...
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Welcome @Kaveh Alaf Pour , it's always good to see more people here interested in the history and coins of Persia. I agree that you'll probably...
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