Tonight the CNG auction which offered parts of Simon Bendall's collection closed with some extraordinary prices for seven "Diokitirion trachaea"...
A better specimen, one where one can see the very non-Roman headgear of the two figures: [ATTACH] AE16mm 1.23g trachy/stamenon Virgin Mary orans,...
There is a good style at Nicomedia, obvious even if the metal is pitted: [ATTACH]
I often say that I'd like to delve into Jewish coinage but I never get around doing it.
It's at least better than the weird but very popular "Anglo-Gallic" designation and it serves the purpose of adding the possessions of the...
You could call the domains that Henry II and Richard owned as the "Angevin Empire." Here is Henry: [ATTACH] And here is Richard, with parts of...
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There are contexts that make certain issues from certain places of certain rulers rare. For instance Magnus Maximus is by no means a "rare" figure...
@AnYangMan was kind enough to offer his expertise on my thread about Margaret of Constantinople and he also launched an invitation for me to delve...
Extraordinarily hard to photograph. [ATTACH]
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