Nice coin!
Well, Merry Christmas, Caligula defeated Neptune which is why he collected the shells.... he also made a horse a Senator... Incatartus!
This is the process from the old catalogs, incl British Museum - make a tin foil impression of the coin by pressing thin foil over the coin, then...
BTW the figure on the front is "Caliph holding sword."
I think it's Arab-Byzantine, the mint name is at the bottom, the right says "durrib 'a" whic means "made at." See Walker's book.
Nice! I collect Korean cast coinage (among other things) and can appreciate how hard it is to complete any set of Korean coins. They are harder to...
Definitely need more info.
Cool! That would make me smile too!
Samanid is actually affordable,it's just if you can read them!
my grandfather told me this story from the depression, he said a guy came and offered to flip him, heads you lose tails you lose, he agreed and...
never actually sent a coin to be graded
looks like a piece of crud on a planchet got struck with the coin.
worth the silver in teh coin
it's worth the silver in the coin
what's the problem?
Here's some more Qarakhanid: AR Dirhem, Uzjend Mint, 427 AH. Kochnev 820.
Is that a Seleukid anchor on that counterstamp?
The Qarakhanids switched to a broad flan billon dirhem (something like 5% silver) during the "worldwide silver crisis." Yours was issued after the...
No problem, glad to help. K&F are my go to numismatic book dealers.
Bars and convenience stores are my major source of star notes. Nice finds!
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