A nice Albanian or Bulgarian variation of the denier tournois of Giovanni Orsini as Despot in Epirus (1323-1335).
Likely a denaro of Giovanni di Trastamara as King of Sicily (1458-1479) minted at Messina by mint master Giovanni del Giudice (I - I privy marks).
The trial strike is extraordinary and the Deventer pfennig is one of the better ones.
At 22mm flan/die, I think it's safe to say that your coin is an AE2 with an overweight flan. A larger denomination is on two axes: die diameter...
You may hope to find good deals if you are versed in late roman bronzes and could spot rare variations (unlisted officinae, rare mints, rare...
Thank you so much for adding your own. I'd like for this thread to be an ongoing exploration on the earliest large AE1s of 351. I am also fully...
Moisture might destroy the "desert patina" and there is little if anything to be gained as far as details go, as it can be seen on the areas where...
Please don't!
Around this time and later there were a few different types tried. The plain "ribbon" is just one of the variations.
It seems that between the later part of the 320s and the 340s there were different types of experiments with head gears, a period that marks the...
Would be excellent if you could PM the new images, hopefully the privy marks on the obverse will get clearer. As for the coin shop, was it perhaps...
It's a Philippe de Taranto as Despot of Epirus, minted at Nepanti/Naupaktas cca. 1295-1307 cf. Malloy 111b, de Saulcy XV, 12. It's a very...
I am a student of the denier tournois but I pretty much like interesting puzzles from the late roman period onwards -- like could the large AE1 of...
Yes, they are particularly aesthetic, even when broken and chipped, as this Louis de Male Botdrager of 1369: [ATTACH]
Long time no ancient posting so with this thread I'd like to return to one of my earlier interests: the coinage of the Late Empire in general and...
You open the year with your brabantine and 11 months later this is probably the best specimen to complement your post: [ATTACH] A demi-gros a...
Is that an oliphant from the Battle of Minas Tirith?
I bet the cats were delighted and will help in the identification process.
There is a certain style to the trachea of this time in Thessalonica-Epirus that is particularly pleasant and artistic regardless of the faults of...
I think that 2233 being a variation of 2182 seems plausible, especially in the light of the BnF specimen provided by Ross. Here is the Despot...
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