I could actually see your coin going for around 500EUR at a high profile auction. It's a wonderful rarity.
The reason why Constans is missing from the picture in 326 might have something to do with the way Constantine I envisioned his vicennalia and...
New image for the first series: [ATTACH]
The hypothesis of Khazars being/becoming Ashkenazi Jews was (is) also intensely used as an "intellectual" argument of several antisemitic...
A good rule of thumb to follow as long as you're just starting on ebay is to keep to the things you know and buy nonexpensive coins. Your two...
Poitou had some of the best coins in French feudal history. Here is a denier tournois of Philippe V before becoming King of France, as Count of...
Thank you for the detailed notes, they are very useful and appreciated. I would like to get more in depth with the Netherlands coinages, but they...
As I had remembered, Flandre is covered by Boudeau, both civil and comital coinages. Your coin is listed at p. 283 #2203. Another image of the...
I think Boudeau also covers Flanders. Will return with more details when I get to the book later.
Last year I started a new chapter in my numismatic foray, a venture into an older interest that I had but didn't quite pursue: the coinage of the...
Incredibly hard to get good images of this. [ATTACH]
I've posted this before in my entry on Raymond III of Tripoli, but here is a possible tessera mercantile of Italian origin, probably used in the...
A tessera is a jeton issued either as notgeld (tessera mercantile) or as a ticket of access to a certain area/place -- like a market or a theater....
I always watch for those, excellent feudal and royal french material. Not bad roman either.
They ship inside the EU with DHL regularly, it takes 24hrs for the envelope to reach you. Top notch.
I have written an entry here about some deniers tournois from Puylaurens (Tarn):...
I thought about this myself, but haven't thought of naming it "British patina" -- it does make sense to do so as a dealer/auctioneer though....
Sister issue to the one I posted.
There's been a lot of Maximinus II being offered lately. [ATTACH]
No, no, minted in Rome, but that particular spec comes from del550 off ebay and was found in East Anglia.
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