Today (November 15, 2024) I attended the Baltimore Whitman Coin Expo, so here is my brief recap of my experiences together with some (very hasty...
[ATTACH] Kushano-Sasanians. AE 15 (2.33 g, 15 mm). Peroz II Kushanshah (c. 325- 330). Obverse: Bust of Kushanshah right, wearing crown with...
[ATTACH] Arabia Felix, Himyarite Kingdom. AR Unit or quinarius (1.7 g, 15 mm, scyphate). Raydan mint. Th'aran Ya'ub (mid-late 1st century CE)....
On this silver drachm of the Sasanian Persian king Khusro II (590- 628), he looks like a zombie, with sunken eye sockets and half-rotted jaws:...
[ATTACH] Coin 1: Parthian Kingdom. AE chalkos (13 mm). Mithradates III (c.87- 80 BCE). Obverse: Bearded bust left, wearing diadem and tiara...
[ATTACH] Ayyubids. Damascus mint. AR dirham. Al-'Adil Abu Bakr I (emir of Damascus 1196-1218, sultan of Egypt 1200-1218), dated 60x AH (date...
[ATTACH] Tabaristan, Abbasid governors. AR hemidrachm (24 mm). Anonymous, dated 134 PYE (AH 169/ 785 CE). Obverse: Sassanian-Style bust right,...
I just posted it last week, but here it is again, an AR dirham of Hulagu (1256-1265), founder of the Ilkhans and the father of Abaqa: [ATTACH]
I think most of the primary sources dealing with the Mongol invasion were written a bit afterwards, as during the invasion the historians were...
[ATTACH] Ilkhans (Mongols of Persia). Mint unclear. AR dirham (2.61 g, 28 mm). Hulagu (1256-1265 CE/654-663 AH), date possibly 657 AH....
[ATTACH] Sasanian Kingdom. AR obol (9 mm, 0.45 g). Kavad I, second reign (499- 531). Obverse: Bust of king right. Reverse: Fire-altar with two...
[ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. Seleukia-on-the-Tigris mint. Billon tetradrachm. Vologases III (c.111-146 CE), dated Panemos 434 Seleucid Era (June...
I agree with @Mr. Numismatist , obverse is of Shunzhi (1644-1661), but the only two mints that used reverses with two Manchu characters in this...
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[ATTACH] Ilkhans, Jurjan mint. AE fals (22 mm, 2.43 g). Abu Sa'id (1316-1335 CE/716-736 AH). Obverse: Standard religious formula, with names...
The coin is indeed Orodes II, Sellwood 45.10, "Court at Ekbatana" mint according to Sellwood. The Sunrise number is wrong- #365 in Sunrise has a...
[ATTACH] Chinghizids (Great Mongols). AE jital (20 mm). Shafurqan mint. Time of Chinghiz Khan (1206-1227). Obverse: Kalima in 3 lines "la ilah...
I have a couple from China (I'm fortuitously working on cataloguing my Chinese collection right now). First, another spade coin, but different...
Nice! There's just something about a lifetime Julius Caesar coin... [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Samanids. AR multiple dirham (7.74 g, 42 mm). No mint. Nuh III (976-997 CE), no date. Obverse: Standard legend with kalima in...
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