I am actively seeking pigasus coins. Dang, they're all so expensive. If any of you have one to sell or trade, let me know. Most of them are...
Doug, I wish I had the Sear Byz book to better understand what you wrote. I looked for examples in wildwinds but didn't find an 1865. Saw this...
Yeah, I figured the bidding would go higher than I wanted to pay. I'm shocked at the hammer price. Happy for you. Well, sorta.
I bid very late so you are unlikely to see my name and react to it, but thanks...
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I am very much lacking in numismatic reference material and need to start buying some books. I'll give it a try. It wasn't hard with the coin...
I did some photoshopping of the coin to crudely reconstruct what it should have looked like, then made a gif just so there'd be no missing it....
OK, now I'm confused about what you're confused about. o_O It's an overstruck coin, Christ is on the reverse too.
o_O Yeah, it's a pretty subtle overstrike. :D
Had an itchy bidding finger... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Romanus IV Diogenes, 1068-1071 AE Follis 10.57 g Constantinople Obv: IC-XC over NI-KA to...
And also because I don't like feeling left out of this thread I'm posting this utterly awful and common Gallienus, from a large batch of uncleaned...
Since I have so few Roman coins or Greek coins which have associated ruler names, I'm posting this Germanicus & Drusus again. (any opportunity to...
My granddad collected US coins which he pulled from his cash register (a drugstore in TX), ~1930s-1960's. An incredible hoard of coins, although...
Here are four 1932D quarters which my grandparents pulled from their cash register sometime in the 1930's-1960's. Given the circulated condition,...
Maybe this? From Dynasty Coins on vcoins [IMG] ABBASID, AL-MUSTA'SIM GOLD DINAR, MADINAT AL-SALAM 645H, VERY RARE OF THIS WEIGHT 15.74G...
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Well bummer. No wins for me today. In CNG the other coin I was going to try for rapidly became higher than I wanted to pay so I didn't even bid....
Whoa, congrats on that win, Steve! Wow. Jealous. Good price!
Welcome! Might be something from around ~1000 AD, Ghaznavid. Try searching on www.coinindia.com (I don't know much about Islamic coins though)
Noob... very wise. You have been well trained :D
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