Cool! I think notgeld is under appreciated by most world coin collectors. Here's a piece I found in a $2 junk box at the Baltimore show a couple...
I just showed it in a thread yesterday, but it fits this thread perfectly, so: This denarius of Vespasian features his sons Titus and Domitian:...
Arab-Sasanian coins are really interesting, there's some interesting types that were issued before all of the Islamic mints settled on the...
Three Flavians on one coin? You got it: [ATTACH]
Lovely coin and nice write-up @Jochen1 ! I posted my own bargain-basement coin of Sidon with Europa a couple of weeks ago, but mine was issued by...
I remember RCC well...started lurking there around '93 or '94, eventually started posting too (not under the Parthicus tag, but under my real...
Yes, you are correct. I had a momentary brain failure. I forgot the old mnemonic "Seven is open to heaven".
Awesome coin @Valentinian, I still need that type for my collection. I do have two other Trajan sestertii commemorating his Parthian campaign: a...
Here's my space-filler example of Trajan's "Rex Parthia Datis" sestertius, commemorating his appointment of Parthamaspates as puppet-king of...
I've posted it before, but here's a barbarous copy of a Constantine I coin. The designs aren't too bad, but try to read that inscription: [ATTACH]
Your friend was almost right- Schjoth 1121 is a value 3 coin, if yours is a value 2 it is Schjoth 1120. (Schjoth refers to an older but still...
First coin (small grey) looks like a jital of some variety (a type of coin used in Afghanistan/Pakistan/India for several centuries.) There are a...
That coin is not a great strike, but I agree with @Mat , I don't see anything that makes me doubt authenticity. Areas of weak strike are very...
Here's a cheap but interesting coin that I recently acquired: [ATTACH] Roman Empire, Phoenicia, Sidon. AE 21. Trajan (98-117 AD). Obverse:...
Thanks for the compliment on my knowledge, I'll try not to let it go to my head :cigar:. Yes, I suppose my numismatic library does look small...
This shelf is solely for my numismatic books: [ATTACH] The rest of my book collection did not want to be photographed, but I can tell you that it...
@dougsmit : Those are two nice coins, and I agree with your reading for both mintmarks as WYH and BYSh, respectively.
Another recent auction win from Frank Robinson: [ATTACH] Sasanian Empire, Rayy mint. AR drachm. Hormazd IV (579-590 AD), Royal Year 3....
@Gerald Gosselin : Your son is correct, it is Chinese and from the Qing dynasty. More specifically, it is from the reign of emperor Ren Zong, who...
As @Finn235 showed above, some of the later Indian imitations of Sasanian portraiture got pretty crazy. But to be fair, some of the original...
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