Another summer auction win: [ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. AR drachm (3.42 g, 20 mm). Orodes II (57-38 BC). Susa mint. Obverse: Diademed bust...
Very nice! I have just one coin of Islamic Spain, struck by And al-Rahman II and dated 232 AH (846 AD): [ATTACH]
I have bought from Sphinx and never had any problems.
I think this is actually a token for Nowruz (the Persian New Year celebration), there are a lot of varieties of these.
Thanks Chris for confirming the David Sellwood provenance. I never buy coins just for the provenance- there has to be some merit in the coin...
Very nice coin, from the land of my ancestors! Although my ancestors at that time probably didn't see a lot of gold coins, they were more likely...
I don't know of anything that's precisely an online copy of Sellwood or Shore (and that would probably be a massive copyright violation if it...
We've all been fooled at some point. This coin fooled me early in my Parthian-collecting phase. There are multiple signs of casting, but even...
Hello @Alegandron , Your coin is indeed of a King Mithradates, who ruled c. 58-55 BC. He was called "Mithradates III" by the old attribution...
It's time for another dive into the confusing world of Parthian coin attributions! [ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. AR drachm. Either "Orodes I...
I've occasionally found small round batteries (i.e. watch battery-type) in my local Coinstar bin. I guess some people just toss any round...
Yes, it's indeed Hormazd IV (579-590), mintmark YZ (Yazd), year is a bit weak but might be Year 6. The Yazd mint is less common in my experience,...
@Sulla80 : After squinting at my copy of Sellwood for a while, I _think_ your OP coin is 78.3 rather than 78.4. The reverse legends for the two...
I've got an elephant on this serrate AE of Antiochus VI: [ATTACH] And on this Indian bronze of the Satavahanas: [ATTACH] But I think I prefer the...
My first instinct is that it's from the later Umayyads of Spain, but that's just off the top of my head. Some experts in Islamic coinage should...
Nisibis is not listed in any list of Sasanian mint cities that I can find (in my admittedly incomplete search). Of course, given how the various...
Nice, I also have an example of this type: [ATTACH]
This is a 5 baht coin from Thailand, dated 2554 of the Buddhist Era (2011 AD). A very common coin, still spendable "pocket change" in Thailand,...
@Sulla80: Cool set, but Im afraid you skipped a Mithradates: Mithradates the Whateverth (III by the old reckoning, IV by Assar), brother of Orodes...
Searching through RIC reveals a listing for an aureus of Hadrian (RIC 144) struck at Rome in AD 121 (AUC 874) with the reverse type "ANN...
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