Here's a mixture of artifacts and other objects of interest, including minerals and fossils (excluding myself). Roman bronze bull, crica 2nd...
That's a very attractive coin with excellent centering, sharp strike and on a broad flan, well above typical examples of this type. Congrats!
At that weight your coin is likely salvaged, but in very good condition nonetheless. I guess records of assayer names for Toledo during the...
That's a very nice coin with a nicely centered strike. The assayer is P with a small o above. This is a variety of the plain P assayer for this...
That's a very nice coin! I don't own an example and it is on my want list. I thought I saw one in a group lot a month or two ago, but that lot...
Northwestern Arabia, Lihyan Kingdom, imitation BI tetradrachm in the Athenian style, 2nd-1st centuries BC. From CNG eAuction 529, lot 348. 13.02...
I agree with the other posts - the coin is probably a fantasy. The weight is off for it to be a drachm (too high - closer to didrachm weight)....
Nice coin! This is about as detailed a cuirass that you'd see in a Byzantine coin, especially for a late Justinian I follis. Justinian I,...
Julia Mamaea, sestertius, Rome, 222-235 AD. VENVS GENETRIX S C. RIC IV.2# 704. 19.49 grams. [ATTACH]
Mexico, Morelos struck 8 reales."SUD", 1812. Purchased from Richard Long in the 1990s. KM 234.a 27.7 grams [ATTACH]
I think it is quite possible that Rouen had sellers of coins and artifacts. It's a good size city and an important port on the Seine between...
That's a very interesting OP coin. As far as condition, it is certainly encrusted, but the detail is quite nice on both sides.
That's a very cool coin!
For its limitations, I have found, over the decades, David Van Meter's "The Handbook of Roman Imperial Coins" very handy as a one volume book. It...
Here's one more mid 16th century thaler, again with St. George standing, with a banner. The dragon, resembling a small dog, seems to be gnawing...
Here's a somewhat unusual depiction of St. George, standing instead of on a horse. Germany, Mansfeld, thaler, 1547. De May 668 28.5 grams [ATTACH]
War for Independence Mexico, Insurgents, Morelos copper 8 reales "SUD", TC (Tierra Caliente), 1813. [ATTACH] War for Independence Mexico,...
Mexico, Royalists, 8 reales, Ferdinand VII, Guadalajara, 1814 MR. KM 111.3 26.68 grams [ATTACH]
I don't want to hold things up, so how about a Parthian coin instead?
Seleucid Kingdom, Antiochus VII Sidetes, Tyre, AR tetradrachm, dated SE year 183 (130/129 BC). [ATTACH] Next: Tigranes II, any coin.
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