I take that it isn't 1058 AD
sorry - 2.03 grams - you people are amazing!
This is a breathtaking coin, stunning!
This is another silver coin which I think is Islamic but it also has Greek lettering, which is bizarre - perhaps early Ottoman, or one of the...
Yes this one is in better condition than some of the others - nice patina too. Unattributed coins are fun but frustrating and I have previously...
This is among the most beautiful early sestertius I have seen of Septimius- certainly among the top five. I thought I had seen most of the high...
Mine has the same obverse die.great coin
Thanks so much - I didn’t even think of seeing if Wildwinds had a Bulgarian section.
Thanks / Bulgarian would make sense since a medieval Bulgarian bronze from the same era was also sent to me as part of the group but since it was...
All are now up - any ideas? Sorry I didn't realize that I repeated these
OJ - all of them are now up -
fixed it -
One aspect of our hobby that I love is attributing unknown coins, especially Greek bronzes. Sometimes it goes fast - my starting point is the...
My dad's name was Peter - great name!
Somehow I never saw this post. This gives me the information I was looking for about the coin. Oddly enough there is a very worn/rough example...
I had thought about collecting sestertii from his reign but decided I could not afford it. His later sestertii seem to be smaller and lighter...
I recently read the ancient historian Herodian's section on Maximinus, in the Loeb eidition, with lengthy notes from the translator, which gave me...
One more comment on the issue of flans - I once had a Dive Faustina sestertius that had a flan that was identical in all respects to a Commmodus...
The flan has looks like similar to a couple of my Caracalla sestertii, good size but narrow in width - a very pleasing look. Both of these are...
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