Good call, William. Sellwood 36.10 (legend #3, mint: Rhagae - close up of the reverse, below). Sellwood had these as "Darius?" (with the question...
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Thanks, all, for the nice comments.
Thanks, all. Regarding the composition of the weapons, TIF, I was going for the Star-Destroyers-attacked-by-rebel-ships motif...
Thanks, all.
Some of my favs of 2018, starting with Elymaeans (including a van't Haaff plate coin, third one down), then some Parthian tets and, finally, a...
I've unloaded most of my Parthian drachms over the past couple of years, but I've held on to some that are special to me, like the front-facing...
Artuqids of Mardin, Husam al-din Yuluq Arslan. Edit: Valentinian beat me to it.
Great, informative post, Parthicus. I'll add a drachm with facing bust, Sunrise 326, Sellwood 35.1 variant (legend ii): [ATTACH]
I feel compelled to add to this thread based on a coin just spotted. The obverse picture at left, below, is from a major, well respected auction...
Reverse may be clasped hands.
I'll add to the growing gallery. My copy, delivered a couple weeks back, with my latest Luristani blade, which just arrived about four hours ago....
I recall a Roman coin sure did wonders for Professor Wutheridge in "The Bishop's Wife"...got him past a twenty year writer's block and out of his...
The break in this case was welcome since it brought a $100+ coin down to $15. Probably the one and only time I'll ever be able to get Elymais...
See: https://classicalnumismaticgallery.com/searchauctionitem.aspx?auctioncode=37&pricerange=&keyword=&category=11&material=0&lotno=
See: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2240073 Rotate your first pic 90 degrees clockwise...
Congrats on the wins, Brittania40 - good looking coins. I hope you're feeling better! I snagged three from the auction today: [ATTACH] Parthian...
Congrats on the pickup, Parthicus. I'll kick in two of my Mithradates I coins - a drachm (Sellwood 13.6 or 13.10) that is from the David Sellwood...
For those of you who don't know Steve/Finn, and those of you who do, prepare yourselves for some extremely informative and fun posts, including...
Did a quick search. There seems to be a decent number of reverse double strikes (of varying degrees) on Herakles/Zeus type tets. Here's a small...
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