My bids, except for one, were wiped out in very healthy bidding. I am amazed at some of the hammer prices, notably for some Islamic coins: 1)...
This is my lone prutah. Judea, 103-76 BC Hasmonean dynasty AE prutah Alexander Jannaeus (Yehonatan) Jerusalem mint Obverse Hebrew inscription,...
No, aside from the information already provided. Also, this is not my coin. I didn't buy it.
Very nice examples!
Gorgeous coins, especially the first one.
A wonderful post, nice examples and an interesting thread. Triumphalism certainly was a favorite theme for Roman coinage through the centuries....
Nice! I have an old lockable three drawer file cabinet from the 1970's. It is build like a tank. It went through the flood of 1983, where I...
I'm pretty much limited to my landline phone and my PC. I'm retired, so this arrangement works for me. I do have lots of emails and I have a...
So, it could be a weight.
Actually I think you might be more on target with Tyre, or Sidon/Phoenicia.
I'm incline to think it is Ptolemaic - from one of those old boys - but I can't say for sure. The flan measures, according to the seller, between...
So it seems.
I tried to directly paste the images into my post. That used to work before, but apparently no longer. So, I put them in Photoshop and saved...
I got an email today from an eBay seller who just received this strange, very crude coin, which I think is actually a coin weight. Here are some...
I'm worse, I guess. I actually talk to them. When there's an argument, the odd thing is that the coin always wins.
I guess that, as we're well into the 21st century, I have remained something of a Luddite. I don't own a cell phone, smart phone or iphone, just...
You have some really nice examples, especially considering how tough it is to locate well struck coins from the mint. I just took some snaps of a...
Nice examples of Justin II and Sophia folles posted here. Here are two folles of Justinian I, Antioch. These examples feature Justinian I...
And then there is Aristophanes: “better not bring up a lion inside your city, But if you must, then humour all his moods.” ― Aristophanes, The...
That's a wonderful group of Roman provincial coins of Judaea, and a nice prutah of Agrippa I. According to Robert Graves (I, Claudius and...
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