A gold tremissis of Sisebutus, king of Hispania and Septimania (the area in the bottom right-hand corner of south-east France, around Nimes). He...
According to Mary Beard (SPQR, p.280): "The standards [lost by Crassus] remained a proud piece of Parthian booty until the emperor Augustus, by...
Google il ducato di Milano moneta and you will get some very good pictures of trillina quattrino etc
A biscione, a big snake, was the coat of arms of the Visconti family who held the duchy of Milan for several centuries, and it continued to be...
The first part of my reply went missing! My opening sentence was to the effect that the 1939 farthing is the second most common date for...
n the whole of the 20th Century, the 1939 farthing had the second biggest mintage figures, 31.4 million, after 1943 with 33.3 million. The lowest...
It is very clearly an imitation, I wouldn't even call it a reproduction
The story is that Lady Godiva's husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia, introduced new taxes that the poorer people were unable to pay. She begged him...
Matthew, look at your own coin. On the obverse after the letter X there is a stop, or dot, or period, call it what you will. And on the reverse,...
Just a little more info for you on your coin. There are three varieties of the 1773 farthing. The first (and rarest) has no stop after REX; the...
Very nice coin, but I think you need to adjust the lighting on your photos. These are copper coins but you wouldn't know from the colour in your pix
I hit the Post button before I had finished writing. I was trying to say that the O or C can't be the assayer's mark because there was no assayer...
As my Scottish grandfather used to say, "I hae me doots" (I have my doubts) about this 8 reales. I have no personal experience of coins from...
******ing spelling checker! I wrote 'fineness' and forgot to check the checker before I posted
The weight is wierd. 8 reales come in at 27.4 grams, 4 reales half that at 13.73 and the fondness should be .93055
Jlass
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