@ewc Are you referring to the "Dravya Pariksha" by chance? I was sent some scans of the relevant chapter of Deyell, and I'm not sure enough coins...
Oooh these are fun threads! Ebay purchase for just a little under $200 Sassanian Empire, Ardashir I drachm - first coin I ever paid more than...
Nice coin and writeup! Quintillus is one of my favorite of the ephemeral emperors, oddly a bit reminiscent of Otho's tragic end. A couple odd...
Perhaps you were thinking of one like the upper left? https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3375191 They exist and I have seen them in...
Countermarks do exist on Sassanian drachms, especially those from the "30 mule loads" from either ransom of Peroz:...
Awesome examples, all! Sorry I'll have to chunk out my responses; busy day ahead. @Ed Snible the portrait side was indeed the anvil side, as far...
[ATTACH] But really, forget smartphones. Just imagine if Marcus Aurelius and Faustina had access to vaccines and hospitals!
I'll need to dig it back out, but one of those Moroccan fals was actually one of the first coins I ever identified. My grandfather bought it in a...
Lovely coins! I picked up a cheap-ish ($60) Valens siliqua a while ago; still need to image it. I have always wondered - why are late silvers so...
Then we get into 1.3, the "curved head" - Chin attaches to the cheek again - Nostril switches from dot to crescent - Attendants are squished down...
Nice examples! In my guide to the series, I have them arranged by track (linear evolution), series, type. Super quick & simple rundown: 1.1 -...
When I first read Doug's page on the Gadhaiya Paisa coinage, I thought he was surely exaggerating when he mentioned collecting 100 different types...
My rule of thumb (correct or not) is that any late Roman AE4 with an illegible legend and an ambiguous reverse type (especually victory dragging...
Very nice owl; a type I still have yet to spring for! (Although my middling bids at auction are slowly getting higher and higher!) My first...
@Alegandron, I think you may be right. Cilician coinage is fascinating, but we know all too little about them. How about some nice...
Finally found my picture. It's crazy to think about how late hammered coins were still being produced in India. The Bundi rupees are among my...
That's a sharp Vespasian! My original vision for my Roman set was to snag the best portrait I could afford of each emperor, even settling for...
Going back to the subject of LRB's, I don't think I have seen more than a handful of definite fakes, on ebay or elsewhere? One of the few...
Mysore's puppet king, Krishnaraja Wodeyar III AV Fanam Early 19th century, roughly contemporary with US Capped Bust coinage [ATTACH] Chinese...
Not an ancient coin,but a little while ago I attempted to snipe a Japanese coin I wanted for my type set (an XF Mameita Gin with a well-struck and...
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