I have 3 El Cazador Shipwreck 8 reals. One is a nice high grade 1779 MO , the other two I have are upper midgrade ish 1783. All slabbed genuine by...
Came out " knee-term" ...interesting.
Interesting...I'm gonna punch that into the google translator.
For years I looked for an Early Persian Siglos, from the time of the Battle of Thermopylae, and the Greek War with Persia. Many of the coins...
There has been some recent interest in the little know civilizations of Antiquity and the middle ages, this has caused me to resume the hunt for...
I think I see and eagle, maybe holding a snake in its mouth.
:3three:..... Most of the sources, I looked out show the Serpent on the Gold Staters, and rarely on the silver pieces.
Nice, strong and well centered strike.The coin is "Roman" but "Still Greek." I like snakes. I owned one then the wife made me exchanged it for a...
I have only a few snakes, but there is one that is special to me. Mysia, Pergamum (Pergamon) 85-76 BC Cista Mystica or Cistophoric Tetradrachm...
I was also going to blow this open for you. If the coin is cup-shaped, then it is not Gold! Its electrum. A "flat" coin would indicate a pure...
I notice a similarity between this coin and much later provincial issues of the 3 century. The reverse eagle design looks like the brainchild of...
FYI, I went back to look at the tread, "my first ancient gold" and there is some kind of database error and the thread won't load. MODS: Please...
I also wanted to add- I had read somewhere that some of these Persian "Drachms" of this period were overstruck on slightly earlier Roman...
Now we are cooking with Crisco!!! I still can't believe you made that "other" coin your avatar....just rubbing it in, right....That has got to...
I believe the spelling is MITHRIDATES. As far as the coin type....Oh no you didn't?
When you get a great ancient coin, is nice. When you get a gold ancient coin, its really nice, but when you get an ancient gold coin at a bottom...
Eng now I am mad! How could you just go get an ancient gold coin before me?! The busts are sooo nice! That is just ridiculous, puts my Byzantine...
OK I found some obv / rev pictures of just a mish mash of coins. This does not seem easy. Do you just pick a number you want to spend and send it...
Does this guy provide pictures, All I see is text. Do you guess what you get? How does this work? Please list alternates? I know there is a...
Shekels? Top to Bottom Melkart Series Tyre Shekel Tyche Series Sidon Shekel Seleucid Kingdom Tyre shekel Demetrios II Nikator. one of them has...
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