Very nice sub-collection and write-up @John Conduitt . I have one of the "Malik of Kurzuwan" coins (which Album notes is one of the very few...
Great coin @DonnaML , and an informative write-up as usual. I don't have any gold for Arcadius, but do have a decent silver siliqua: [ATTACH]
"AE" in ancient numismatics is just a general term used to indicate a coin is of a copper or bronze alloy. When the AE is followed by a number, it...
Yes, this, a thousand times. To be fair, the dates for Persia are good for the Achaemenids, though it's not like no other great Persian empire...
@The Eidolon : I think your first coin is 16.360, based on the shape of the character Yuan. The difference in color is probably due to conditions...
Yeah, I'm throwing in one more vote for fantasy piece. The date is Year 1 of Qianlong, but the dragon design and overall layout are from a...
On further review, I think this is what is known as "Tianxia Taiping" coins. The reverse inscription is read as "tian xia tai ping" (Heaven below...
Does it have the Type I reverse?
I have a related coin, also of Domitian from Caesarea Maritima, which may or may not be intended as a Judaea Capta type: [ATTACH] I summarized the...
Looks to be a charm (like the piece in your other thread), this is also copying a Value 1,000 coin of Xianfeng (1851-1861) but from the Board of...
The basic design copies a Value 1,000 cash coin of the Xianfeng emperor (1851-1861) from Board of Revenue mint, though the oddities in the script...
Cool! I posted my example a couple of years ago, including some speculation on the identities of the three kings:...
If I may use my favorite quote from the TV show Firefly: "You paid money for this, sir? On purpose?" This coin is fake. Fake fake fake fake fake...
The seated woman holding a palm branch is Tyche, a goddess of fortune and prosperity. The other figure is male, and represents the River Orontes....
I'm still far behind in posting my coins, and depending on some upcoming auctions may be even farther behind soon, but meanwhile here's a quick...
I am far behind in posting my coins, the only full threads for new coins I've started for 2021 were for this early Parthian bronze:...
Very cool! I have a couple of postage stamps from Nagorno-Karabakh, that were actually postally-used to send me some antique postcards from an...
@James R : Where did you get the information in your first post? Because, to quote Luke Skywalker: "Every word of that sentence is wrong." 1. As...
A token or unofficial piece, but an interesting one... Obverse is the normal "Xian feng tong bao" or "Xianfeng current coin" of the Xianfeng...
I got my second shot (Pfizer) a week ago. Had some pain in the arm after the first shot, barely any pain after the second. I'm very glad to have...
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