I have a few coins of Faustina II with her children, including the ever-popular "babies high-living on a pulvinar" type: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here's my Kai Yuan, the reverse (not shown) is plain. I haven't attributed it to Hartill type, but the form of Yuan and slightly silvery color of...
@arashpour: Thanks for your kind words, I have collected Parthian coins for a while and learned a fair amount, though I think @Bob L. and...
In honor of Father's Day, I'll repost this coin, a denarius of Vespasian featuring his sons Titus and Domitian: [ATTACH]
Very nice coin, of the distinctive Sellwood type 81. You're lucky that the corrosion spot is in an area that's not immediately noticeable, so it...
China, Qianlong Emperor (1736-95), Board of Works mint. A very common coin, worth less than a dollar despite the age. Still a cool bit of history.
Your coin is from Hyderabad in India, the date is 1361 of the Muslim calendar (=1942 AD). The denomination is on the other side of the coin, this...
I've got a hippo on this Alexandrine diobol of Claudius: [ATTACH] I have to say, though, I was a bit underwhelmed when I actually saw hippos in...
Here's my latest treasure, from Vauctions/ Pegasi Sale 330: [ATTACH] Achaemenid Persian Empire, Sardis mint. AR siglos (5.30 g). c. 510- 480 BC...
As I posted last year in a thread called "How to respect a slabbed ancient coin": [ATTACH] "I'm Mister Crowbar. And this is my friend, who is...
Very nice! Ardashir I has a great portrait (several of them, in fact, at different points in his career). Here he is on an obol: [ATTACH]
The top trilobite is definitely Elrathia, and in Utah it is found in large numbers in the Wheeler Formation which dates to the Cambrian Period, c....
I won this a couple of months ago, but haven't gotten around to posting it until now: [ATTACH] Roman Empire. AR denarius (17 mm, 3.01 g). Emesa...
The smallest coin in the group looks like a fractional silver dirham of the Amirs of Sind, who ruled a territory in what is now Pakistan from...
Very cool! I don't have a Gong coin, but I do have one of the Yuan type I bought from Frank Robinson a few years ago: [ATTACH]
Looks like it's in honor of the Cyrus Cylinder, an important archaeological artifact/document from the Achaemenid Persian Empire:...
Republic of China (Taiwan), 1 yuan, dated Year 62 of the Republic (1973 AD). Y#36.
Here's a recent win from a John Anthony auction: [ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. AR drachm (3.9 g, 20 mm). Mithradates III (c.57-54 BC)....
Since this thread seems near its end, it seems appropriate to add my posthumous issue of Antoninus Pius, which shows his funeral pyre on the...
I don't recall seeing a patina that bright blue, though I've seen a few copper patinas that are definitely blue-green. Copper sulfate is blue, so...
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