There is a very attractive coin exhibition of Islamic coins at the art museum of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. For the duration of the...
On this page: https://www.icollector.com/Antique-Rare-Coin-Free-Shipping_as73255 the coins are replicas. That is a very bad recommendation for...
In agreement with you, I think it is a regular issue of Antioch. Those of us who spend years paying attention to coins of a particular sort, say,...
Justinian issued reformed (facing bust) folles in years 12 through 39 (538/9 - 565). Constantinople only minted folles until year 37, Nicomedia...
@Terence Cheesman showed an Antoninus Pius AE with a thunderbolt design. Here is a denarius: [ATTACH] Denarius. 18 mm. 3.08 grams. PROVIDENTIAE...
In the 1970's I had a similar bottle, a bit shorter. One day I accidentally knocked it off its foot-high stand and when it hit the table it...
Oliver Hoover's blog about this: http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/yemen/
Wow! What a difference the new pictures make. The odd rim at 7:00-10:00 in the original obverse picture is gone. The "pit" in the nose is seems...
Are you going to enlighten us about the difference?
I agree there are signs it is a modern fake. The obverse shows casting pits and a casting seam on the left edge. If those are actually on the coin...
Here is a remarkable facing quadriga: [ATTACH] Maximinus II, 305-313 24 mm. 8.42 grams. MAXIMINVS NOB CAES/SOLI INVICTAE Struck as Caesar, May...
Thank you, @svessien ! That is an excellent site. It has some good links that I didn't notice at first. For example, click on "Coins" and then on...
Here is a Claudius II VIRTVS AVG. It is like the one of @Shea19 above. [ATTACH] 20 mm. 3.05 grams. I got it because of the silvering, which is...
Yes, the OP coin is a beauty of great interest and rarity--well worth a bidding war.
The book "Byzantine Coins" by Grierson is a gold mine of information. Not only does it have good B&W photographs of 1527 types on 95 plates, it...
I got this for its mintmark: [ATTACH] Justinian, 527-565. Sear 222 40 nummia 35 mm. 19.1 grams. mm THUP Year XXXI = 31 = 557/8, at Antioch,...
Here is an AE type set for Gratian: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/Gratian.html Not the rarest, but the most interesting AE type for Gratian...
Give it to someone who can use it to remove fingernail polish. Fingernail polish remover is usually just acetone.
Grades, and in particular NGC grades, strike numbers, and surface numbers are a way to communicate something about coins that I call "condition,"...
Until 970 Byzantine emperors struck copper coins in their own names. Then, in AD 970 the pious emperor John I Tzimisces make a remarkable change...
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