It sure sounds like CNG and Yale both believe that the collector, whose collection was being sold in the Keystone auction, acquired some of the...
Great historical interest with Diocletian, the leader of the Tetrarchy, on the front, and all four Tetrarchs together on the back.
[ATTACH] There is a very fun children's book about Charlemagne's elephant!
Me again with another dirham of Harun al-Rashid. This is from the year he became caliph. It calls him "Harun the Commander of the Faithful" and...
One of my favorites as you can tell from my avatar. [ATTACH] Maxentius used his coins to emphasize his political message. He was saying that he...
Athens tetradrachm: [ATTACH] Licinius from Alexandria: [ATTACH]
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Guido Bruck, the Austrian numismatist. Here is the book on Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Late-Roman-Bronze-Coinage-attribution/dp/1502926016
The nice thing about both books is that they have line drawings, almost cartoons really, that guide you though what is on the coin.
[ATTACH] Bruck and Plant have both been recently reprinted. New copies are inexpensive. I find them both useful and entertaining.
Here is my example of the popular type with Medusa's severed head, though I promise I wasn't just being bloodthirsty. I also like the portrait of...
Man, the Chola dynasty was around FOREVER. Just a random thought prompted by the map.
More Harun al-Rashid! [ATTACH] Abbasid Caliphate. Time of Harun al-Rashid. Dated 171 AH (787-788 CE). Silver dirham. Al-Muhammadiya mint. Cites...
Looks like guide on the Beast Coins site will help with the dates. https://www.beastcoins.com/Sasanian/Sasanian.htm
How exactly do you convert the date on the coin to a common era date? Were their years the same length as ours? The mint was pretty easy due to...
I have not looked into the scholarship on this, but I would find use of naphtha fuel in the lighthouse to be very plausible; the ancients had some...
[ATTACH] Khosrau II. I don't quite understand the regnal dates but I think around 623 at the height of the Byzantine / Sasanian war.
I don't have the Pharos, just an Isis Pharia like @zumbly [ATTACH]
I've come very close to buying a few of these but like @Jersey magic man I am worried about the dust.
I go chronologically by date of minting (although obviously this is uncertain in many cases so I have to take my best guess) and I don't mind...
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