The reverse of this well-known commemorative coin of Constantine inspires to me that the perspective related to horses was intentionally designed...
Great and very generous write-up. I needed to know if the name of the mountain Kasius is still the same nowadays. This sacred stone within the...
Greetings on this sunny Sunday here. I just chose this palm tree of Tyre as a civic issue. The reverse alone would be reminiscent of Palm Sunday....
Counterfeiters aim valuable coins to make their "Business".
Interesting and very personal thread. Well I think that the most intriguing and pleasing thing that I found in an uncleaned lot, or call it what...
Weighing 15.31 g., the following bronze coin was struck at Antioch mint under Roman Emperor Philip. Reverse shows a tetrastyle temple which...
Decanummium (I)- Year 16. Justinian- Constantinople. I could get him at this fair condition, even few years after the plague. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Just found this interesting coin in my folders. It was struck in Cyrrhus -Syria under Roman Emperor Philip II. Reverse reads "Dioc Katebatou"....
Both Victoria under Maximinus II, and the walking lion under James II of Lusignan are wearing shoes and boots. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
After Attica-Athens, other Greek cities tried to follow up with the new "Monetary Civilization"if I dare say. They minted similar coins and began...
Classical- 430 BC. Weight: 16.85 g. Test cut on reverse. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thanks a lot C71. The link led me to a blog at "Pera Museum". So it's a glass weight which was used to weigh gold coins. Byzantine, 6th -7th century.
[ATTACH] Weighing 2.12 g., the following Byzantine "coin" seems to be made of glass. Anything but not a metal. Thus I conceived that it might be...
Necessity is the mother of invention. Congrats..
I've seen a coin yesterday which shows Gordian III and Tranquillina on obverse. As for the reverse, it reads : CAMOCATEON. I didn't buy it yet....
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