High on my want list for a long time has been a coin featuring Ganymede on the reverse. I've yet to achieve this goal, but in my research I came...
I like that though all the numbers look quite odd it's a) still quite recognizable as a date and b) you can understand just by looking at it how...
Nice! I got one of the 1477's in the after auction from the same sale for my collection of ancient and medieval women! I wasn't going to post it...
With a little time on your hands you can almost always crosscheck the acsearch results against the auctions they came from... Of course today...
To add into this equation there's also Sixbid's new-ish archive service which is free, and very good (although definitely somewhat smaller than...
Interesting... I too won my lot exactly at my max
Oh that's a nightmare!!
Of course, when Michelanelo gets involved there's even Jesus Christ himself: [ATTACH]
I'll put forward Perseus. Canova or Cellini, take your pick: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I just won my first coin from Noble in Australia. I'll reveal it in due course, but I've gotten so superstitious lately with all the covid related...
[ATTACH] Here's my Irene. Maybe someday I'll get one from her sole rule.
Lovely coin. I still need a coin of Ludovico/Gian Galeazzo, but, naturally, I'm after the double portrait Testone.
Jetons are cool, but they tend to be pretty cheap! You definitely didn't overpay, but I wouldn't say they're worth a whole lot more than that, either.
Some of the Krauwinkel jetons have amazing biblical and mythological scenes on them. I have a few: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
@John Conduitt beat me to it
They're Krauwinkel Jetons from Nuremberg
at 12 o'clock on the reverse, above the cross. They're slightly off-flan on your coin. These coins were clearly struck at the mint around the same...
To be completely honest, I've always been a little skeptical of this attribution. Berman mentions it and I've seen it in occasional auction...
My other major recent purchase also features a mythological creature being consumed by flames. Bona di Savoia with her phoenix: [ATTACH]...
and another one: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/question-for-seasoned-slab-crackers.315436/
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