Can you arrange the obverse/reverse photos alongside each other with what you think to be 12' pointing up? I can't even tell how many coins I'm...
This is one coin that I would be quick to condemn. The style is not in 5th-3rd century BC Syracusan, but in c. AD 2004 Bulgarian.
The IILX carved into that is modern. Note the lack of patina in the letters. Also, the originals were engraved much deeper, and generally on coins...
I'll add that its a cast fake. Most likely sold at the Fort Ross gift shop.
What you likely have is a silver sycee, denominated in taels. These are almost always fake and without the picture there is no way to tell.
The Chinese have been collecting their own coins for centuries. Although none survive, there are references to coin books written at least as far...
Just a coincidence. The M is the mark for the Manila mint under the US, it just happens to be right below the dot! Howabout a proof? [IMG]
http://www-cm.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/emc/emc_search.php The Early Medieval Coinage Database. Not terribly helpful if you don't already have a good...
Its far from complete, but this is the best offering online: http://www.romancoins.info/Countermarks.html.The main reference for ancient...
Good idea. I think I'll join the ONS too.
Rome mint early on: [IMG] Colonia Agrippinensis during the third century: [IMG] And one particular engraver at the Siscia mint in around 319: [IMG]
Who knows? Most of the people on this forum. Just because the dies were hand made does NOT mean that they could ever be this far from the...
http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/coinindia/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=610
Juiced, but probably better in hand. Hopefully the surfaces are smooth when you get it. Otherwise, that's some rather attractive emerald-green...
Of course, that's assuming that an Emperor on campaign would even have a stationary mint. Its not unreasonable to assume that the mint traveled...
The eyes on some of those bear a remarkable resemblance to the eyes on coins of Gallienus from what Gobl calls the Samosata mint.
I agree with Doug. The Clodius Albinus is by far the best in your group. The first, the Trajan, is actually a provincial drachm of Caesaria in...
While I have been extremely interested in non-European coinages of this time period, my true passion still is the Western European ones. I...
If I may... (highlight to read answers) Ioel, Axumite Kingdom. c. AD 550-570. Munro 134 Vandals, Municipal coinage of Carthage. AE 4 nummi. AD...
Gorgeous Aethelred! So far, the only Anglo-Saxon coins I have are stycas of Northumbria. doug - I knew I could count on you to take it out of...
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