I'm on a buying hiatus, except for maybe small, inexpensive pieces that capture my interest. I've realized that I now have a drawer-full of coins...
Not Syrian, Bulgaria. :)
Beautiful work on the Victory, Eduard! I've scratch-built some structures for model railroads, and I can only imagine how tricky it must be to...
I know what all the letter are, but I can't venture a translation. Someone fluent in Hebrew should be able to do it, since it's pretty clear....
The fifth line uses diacritical marks called Niqqud - these are largely omitted in written Hebrew, except in special cases like religious texts....
T it is then. It's a variant I haven't come across yet. All the other legends I've seen have NIKOΠOΛI.
My own image - not a huge difference from the seller's maybe. I'm very pleased to have this scarce coin in any condition. [img]
Hebrew script. The first image is upside-down.
It does have that look, but it also exhibits what appear to be serifs, so perhaps it is a T after all. I have various references I can check later.
So I was poking around in Syria, looking for some specific issues of S. Severus, but I wandered considerably northward and stumbled across this...
Lot of fakes floating around though. If you're going to buy one, do your homework first.
The travails of the Anabaptists... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster_Rebellion
Great post AN, but do you have a microscope I can borrow to see your coin? o_O
I have lots of coins worth 14 million dollars. (Zimbabwe dollars)
Castration Notgeld? Fun for the whole family. [img]
Where would you go to make change?
Bing, you've got a super gallery over at FORVM - I've had some fun looking through it.
Pegasi is a trusted source. They wouldn't knowingly sell a forgery, so that's an added confirmation. My impromptu assessment of the attribution...
As far as I know, all the coins of this type minted under Seleukos I exhibit an anchor in the field over the lion. The coins of Mazaios have an...
Pertinent quotes from the Dictionary of Roman Coins (Stevenson, Smith, Madden, 1889)... Concerning this type... Op. cit. Location of...
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