Wow, those are the best examples I've seen!
Welcome to CoinTalk Ancients, Richard! I'll let someone else handle the ID details (edited: JA posted the IDs while I was editing the pictures),...
St. George, hmm. Looks like I have one with him on a smaller Byzantine. [IMG] Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus, CE 1197-1203 AE half tetarteron, 14...
References duly noted and added. Thanks, @THCoins!
Oh dear. You're right.
Wow, such destructive techniques! Didn't you just cringe when they whipped out the Dremel? Not to mention the ultrasound and electrolysis...
[IMG] (For those who don't know Ethiopian cuisine, teff flour is used to make injera :D)
I picked this up at the ANA show last year. No attribution. The strike and condition aren't very good but it is a Kushano-Sasanian bronze....
Mmmm, injera sestertius :D [ATTACH]
Hmm, I'm not sure what the T means. Maybe Tetrarchos (ruler)? Just a guess, although that probably doesn't make sense because "AMK" is an...
Thanks for the help, dltsrq! I'll look for that British Museum citation. ET[OYC]... I should have realized that since I also collect Roman...
Not long ago I made a decent copy stand from some scrap wood, a couple of dowels, a purchased camera clamp, and a can of matte black spray paint....
Wow, that is a beautiful coin ;)
I'm revisiting some previously neglected mixed lot coins and this one is more interesting than most of them. I haven't been able to nail down the...
Sometimes I have to put them away and try another day, and then another day, and then another day...
Very nice tiny coins!! Here are a few of my favorite smallest coins :). [IMG] CARIA, Mylasa 450-400 BCE AR hemiobol, 7 x 9 mm, 0.5 gm Obv:...
What an interesting portrait!
:(, but if you didn't pay much for them, it's not a tragedy. It is illegal to buy, sell, or export ancient coins in Turkey. They must have a...
From the many similar counterstamped Akragas coins in various archives and per the auction catalogers the countermark is Herakles wearing a lion...
Here's a somewhat better view of the OP coin, edited from NGC's cert lookup. [ATTACH] As usual, the prongs annoyingly obscure certain details....
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