Any idiot can see those are two different coins, but in my defense, I have a nasty cold and I'm high on Nyquil.
Pardon me while I wipe the egg off my face.
Yes, but I think Bland is referring to coins of Vabalathus and Zenobia separately, not together on the same coin. I don't think there are any such...
Eh...probably some dealer's attribution. Here is the coin... Vabalathus and Zenobia, Billon tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. 271–272 AD. Obv.:...
I'll take those unwanted coins from the Prospero collection.
Join academia.edu, then peruse all the numismatic articles, follow the authors you like, etc. You'll get emails when authors you follow upload...
Btw, Roger Bland has uploaded his excellent article on the subject to academia.edu. A must-read for anyone interested in the coinage of Vabalathus...
I'm not sure I follow your question. There is only one coin that I know of that has Vabalathus and Zenobia on it - an Alexandrian tet, Emmett...
You've got a magnificent collection, Zohar. Discussions of value and investment rather bore me, so I tend to stay out of them. There is no...
I can't pardon Canada for the unforgivable crime of Justin Beiber.
What seems obvious to me with all these archaics is that the incuse punch was the moveable die, the obverse die being on the anvil. The highest...
Antiochus VI is the one with all the bottle-cap elephants. I can't make out the inscription from the pic, but it should be ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ...
Marcus! Pick up your toys and put them away! They don't belong in the middle of the living room where I keep tripping over them!
Here's the poor man's version... [ATTACH]
"Exceptionally well detailed and of wonderfully delicate style" is the perfect description indeed. Well-done!
Nice coins, Mat and Bing! I had not seen those from your collections.
That page represents an enormous amount of work on your part, well-done! I've recently become more interested in the coinage of the Valentinian...
The smaller of these coins arrived today, and it's a thousand times nicer than the seller's pic. I wasn't going to post it until the Hadrian came,...
No. We got sidetracked, as frequently happens.
Welcome to Coin Talk, JFT. Very nice article - thank you for posting it. I noticed that someone in the comments questioned the reading of the coin...
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