And yet, you still have hammered coins being produced in Annam (Vietnam) well into the mid-twentieth century...
By this time, the Gallic Empire produced an estimate of 48 MILLION coins A WEEK (Bland, R.:From Gordian III to the Gallic Empire, AD 238-274) and...
Give number 2 some love, then keep it.
Look for Pontus, Amisos on Wildwinds. That´s it.
Thanks Doug, he´s following this thread and is very thankfull for anyone´s opinions and comments. He says he´ll take your suggestion into...
Yes, I believe you nailed it. But on your example Fortuna holds a cornucopia, not a torch. :bored: Could that be an "artistic license"?
A friend of mine is preparing his criminalistic thesis based on ancient (and modern) coin counterfeit and its technics. He bought this badly...
Awesome pics! Cool coin too...I think you might find it useful if you could see it under a microscope. There seems to be different layers on the core.
Beautiful examples! I like what you did to display the cylinder. ;)
This is more a pseudo byzantine rather than islamic. Not only in its type, but it even imitates scyphate trachys in its shape!
Well, this "anacronic" subject has also been discussed in some way by one of Julius Caesar greatest fan, Napoleon. He made a note in his own copy...
I think your coin is an official issue, one of the many coins belonging to the time just before the revolt of the moneyers. The emperor found out...
I guess we all have a box like that. Mine, I call it "Dumb Box" (as in: not wise buys/no knowledge to get from them). From time to time I tell...
Indeed. I remember that even Julian II "the apostate" spent a night awake in Paris, making his mind about accepting his soldier´s acclamation or...
I believe he just needed coins to pay his troops while under siege, expecting Postumus to come to rescue him. These coins are pretty debased, and...
Aureolus was an elite general, who was ordered to attack Postumus from his base in Mediolanum (Milan). Instead, he switched side and used...
Yeah, it happens. Whenever I "feel the urge to buy coins" but don´t have enough money, I go Asian. Chinese coins are really cheap, so I have a...
Lovely portrait, sweet coin! He even seems to be disgrunted! I know you are not. :)
Superb piece! Congrats!
Nice sycee! Great piece!
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