Nice find, and it's in a pretty good grade too for these thin coins. It doesn't look like you've done the coin any particular harm, although I...
From what I can see, it's looking like the practice is peculiar to the French and British. I haven't personally seen any other examples although...
About five years ago I missed my chance sitting at my computer about 3 am my time doing a manual `snipe'. Ebay experienced congestion about five...
I think your one is the only one i've seen of that type. I guess there's either not many of these about or they tend to stay in collections....
A good example of politically inspired art work. :-) Geo IV had a close circle of hangers on (usually people he was heavily indebted to),...
Yes, coins and politics can be `on topic'. Tokens have been used in the past for getting political messages across, but what about *actual*...
I agree. There is a fine line between being informative and spoon feeding. On one side of the line one provides the dangling carrot in the form of...
It seems brevity pays dividends when it comes to crossing the finishing line first. ;-) Ian
They are both greek sure enough. The first is Boeotian in origin, a region of greece bordering Attica with Thebes as the dominant city state....
A challenging set of objectives you have there. My problem (well, one of the many...) is that my interests are splattered across the entire...
....and the rest too...like `Silver Gulden 1559-1763' as well as the various (and numerous) soft cover extracts from his books. Of course, you...
A book you might find very useful to you (especially if French is not one of your greatest linguistic talents) is Jim Robert's `The Silver Coins...
Hey ! Watch who you are calling ancient! I'll have you know that in some circles i'm considered to be quite young actually! OK...granted, not that...
Æ by gum lad! (as they might have said once upon a time in ye olde Yorkshire) Brilliant! Thanks for that :-)
:-) OK...so would I if I knew how to get the conjoined a and e on my keyboard. What's the alt+ (?) code then....? Ian The Resolute
Maybe your teachers knew something that my teachers didn't. I've been using it that way (swimming against the tide of modernism and US...
Krause is as good a starting placeas any for the general subject of `world coins'. Just don't take their pricing to be gospel ;-) Bear in mind...
Mediaeval coinage is an immense subject area. There isn't even a definite cut off line separating ancients from mediaval from `modern'....
I like your example of a ducaton. Nice coin in a nice grade. Ian
Well lets see. If that upsets Andy, this one will probably get his glasses really steamed up. Although not a coin, it's a silver jeton of the old...
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