Wonderful! Lovely example. Also a really nice sharp, centered and non-double struck obverse and reverse. I often see that either the obverse or...
I have answered you already regarding this, yes gold is worth more than silver, just like in 2021. There was a particular gold-to-silver ratio....
Beautiful coin and countermarked by the Seleukid authority! This particular issue was imitated by the Roman empire later on ca. 40-20 BC. The...
That's not true, take a cistophoric tetradrachm out of the Pergamene sphere and you got yourself a tridrachm.
Isn't it called an AV octodrachm just because that is what would weight an octodrachm in the Phoenician standard. I do agree that the particular...
I was hoping for your response since you started to collect coinage of Asia Minor. Nice coin and indeed Σ - Κ must be from Skepsis, that atleast...
I wonder what the expert will say, keep us updated! I honestly think it is genuine so most likely no bad news ;) I picked up that shield coin back...
Lovely coins @Ryro! Your Knossos coin ofcourse stays my favorite. My labyrs coins: [IMG] Islands off Troas, Tenedos. AR Obol, circa 450-387 B.C....
Skepsis was a town in Troas, Asia Minor. It was found on the upper waters of the Aisepos River or north-east of Kebren, on the Scamander river. It...
I explained it here just now as well: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-is-the-cause-of-this-texture.355448/#post-7461229 Crystallization...
It looks genuine to me, I suppose due to corrosion and cleaning of the coin the weight dropped a bit.
I do not fully agree with your definition, it is exactly what @Ed Snible mentions, it is intergranular corrosion, which doesn't necessarily only...
Thanks @BenSi for the nice additional write up, I learned something more as well. It is interesting with the metro of Thessaloniki, I really...
Billon trachea certainly had silver wash. Tetartera not minted in the capital, so from Thessalonica mint, had no silver wash. [IMG] Manuel I...
If you have cistophoric coins please also share them! There is a wide variety of them and they were far more widespread and important in the...
[ATTACH] Marble bust of Philetaerus. Roman copy from 1st century AD of the Greek original When I think of the Hellenic period, compared to the...
@BenSi also made me aware of these very interesting Metropolitan issues, and because of him I now know I got a couple of these issues in my...
Wonderful coins @BenSi! And a nice write up. I wonder why the denominations were separated in the empire. My Byzantine gold: [IMG] Andronicus II...
Very interesting, thanks for the write up. These Athenian imitations are obscure. The engraver seems to have copied the original Athenian...
It looks legit to me. It is a civic tetradrachm in the name of Alexander, struck in Asia Minor ca. early 2nd century BC. Looking at the style of...
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