That's a good question that I wondered myself. I read nothing about it when doing my research. My only guess is that it is a reference to the fire...
[ATTACH] Here is a very significant Renaissance coin I recently acquired. I just posted an exceedingly long write-up in the ancient coin...
Write-up written: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-classicizing-renaissance-rarities.363713/
I would like to share with you two recent acquisitions. They are both beautiful, rare, anepigraphic, enigmatic, classicizing, and quintessentially...
It's a monetary weight (Peso monetale) for Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of Milan. https://deamoneta.com/auctions/view/487/543
@TypeCoin971793 beat me to it, but I agree with him. My speciality is Italian Renaissance coins and the Italian dealers I buy from are truly...
As a world and ancient coin collector--with a distaste for slabs (I broke out the only one I've ever bought)--I've read this post with interest....
[ATTACH] Bona of Savoy as regent for her son Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza. He isn't pictured, but he's named in the legend IO (Giovanni) GZ...
The last coin that I was waiting on arrived. I'll post a write-up soon: [ATTACH] Ferrara. Ercole I d'Este (1471-1505). Testone or Idra
One of mine that I didn't dare post just arrived: [ATTACH] read all about it here
a few new and not-so-new acquisitions: [ATTACH] Julius II (1503-1513) Julius sd, Bologna. D / Bust of the Pope R / San Petronio seated supports...
I have just received in the mail one of the great rarities of Milanese coinage, the testone of Bona di Savoia: [ATTACH] Duchy of Milan. Bona di...
Great write up!
I agree--and I also hang out on the ancients board a lot--but at the same time my hope would be that having a dedicated space would help attract a...
I find myself wishing more and more for a dedicated forum for medieval and early modern coins... I feel like they tend to get lost in both the...
That's exactly how I feel!
This is correct except it is actually dated in the exergue "III" which refers to year three of his reign, or 1553/4. I included it as an example...
I see some bias there... a little german heavy, no? For me (in the broadest of strokes): 1) Classical coinage of the fourth century BC,...
I've always found the Florence Baptistry (and other Italian romanesque structures) fascinating as it can be both seen as ""proto-renaissance",...
The conventional answer is anything after the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (476), or anything after the fall the Roman Empire in the West,...
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