Nice! I like those types because the owl/crook/flail devices hail back to really ancient Egypt - the coins look more Egyptian to me than Phoenician.
Valens, GLORIA ROMANORVM, Siscia mint.
Those are beautiful thalers! I happen to be a big fan of guns and shooting and the 2nd Amendment, but don't get political on me. I can't seem to...
Worse than the T shirts are tattoos. [ATTACH] I posted the characters on my cash coin, which Google translate spits out as Chongning treasures,...
I just copied them from another site and pasted.
崇宁重宝 (Just testing if I can post Chinese characters.)
Wasn't she pretty much the only woman to ever rule an Islamic kingdom, anywhere?
VIRTVS with spear and shield is one design that comes to mind, here on two ants of Gallienus. These are not mine - just pics grabbed off vcoins......
Modern scholarship says coins were developed independently in Anatolia, Greece, India and China around the 7th and 6th centuries BC. It was an...
Great coin! It should be noted that the F is obviously not the 6th letter of the Roman alphabet, but the archaic Greek letter digamma (Ϝ),...
Sorry, it's all Greek to me.
I thought Greek was challenging when I first started collecting ancients. I stand corrected. But like all things, you learn one or two little...
According to Tye I had the second coin's sides switched as well. Here is the corrected pic with full attribution... [ATTACH] Delhi Sultanates,...
You're good Doug! Thank you, lol. So it IS 4-gani, Tye 437. I confused the denominations in my head. Also, the style of the lettering on Tye's...
Great stuff Doug. Yes, I did visit page 155. It would seem my date is on the fuzzy side so I'm rather taking THCoin's conjecture at AH 719. Going...
I have to stop buying books and start reading them. I completely forgot I had a copy of Tye's Jitals. I actually have a reference for these coins....
That silly BS actually made me laugh. :woot:
Glad it arrived safely!
Yeah, those are very interesting. Harlan Berk had a handful the last time he was at the Baltimore show, newly found. But none of them were...
I haven't seen that monogram paired with the pentagram before, but that doesn't mean anything - there are probably a lot of varieties I haven't...
Separate names with a comma.
