Phoenician Silver 1/32 Shekel (minted in Biblos sometime between 450 BCE and 400 BCE): [IMG]
Umayyad Silver Dirham of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (minted in Basra in 719): [ATTACH]
Parthian Silver Drachm of Mithradates II (minted in Ecbatana sometime between 109 BCE and 95 BCE): [IMG]
Abbasid Silver Dirham of Harun al-Rashid (minted at the Madinat al-Salam mint in either 806 or 807): [IMG]
Kushan Gold Dinar of Kanishka the Great from the 2nd century: [ATTACH]
Indo-Greek Silver Square Drachm of Apollodotus I from the 2nd century BCE: [ATTACH]
Roman Silver Antoninianus of Phillip I (minted in Rome in 248 to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Rome's founding): [IMG]
Thank you, my favourite Islamic Dinar is this Ayyubid Gold Dinar of Saladin from 1184 (minted in Cairo): [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Ghaznavid Gold Dinar of Sebuktekin (the founder of the Ghaznavid Dynasty) from 997: [ATTACH]
Nabataean Bronze Shekel of Rabbel II and his wife Hagru (minted sometime between 102 and 106): [ATTACH]
Almoravid Gold Dinar of Ali ibn Yusuf (minted in Almeria in either 1136 or 1137): [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This Kingdom of France Gold Franc a pied of Charles V the Wise was minted on the 20th of April 1365: [ATTACH]
Neither did I until I saw it at that auction:D, and now it is my favourite coin. :)
Not me.
It isn't my latest (I won it at the CoinsNB auction on March the 30th) ancient coin, but it is my favourite one, namely the Ancient Chinese State...
I like the coin. :)
This might be of interest to somebody here:...
https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/conatus_coins/273/product/augustus_27_bc_ad_14_av_aureus_786_gms_lugdunum_mint_15_bc_ngc_ef_strike_55_surface_25/2...
Khanate of Bukhara Gold 1/12 Mohur of Abdullah Khan II (minted in Badakhshan sometime between 1584 and 1598): [ATTACH]
After my recent purchases, my collection consists of: Ancient Chinese State of Chu Gold Ying Yuan (minted sometime between 400 BCE and 220 BCE)...
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