Wow... That's interesting indeed. You say they are all from Syria and almost all are Buttrey (or Buttrey-Flament) types? It's obviously a hoard,...
Very gnice !
Israel is the only place in the Near-East where the antiquities market is officially legal, even if there have been more restrictive regulations...
[ATTACH] Etruscilla (249-251), AR tetradrachm, Antioch. Not my coin, but a fantastic cleaning operation by a good friend of mine ! :-) Next :...
Very good specimens of this 12th c. bronze coin ! The legend MΛNɤHΛ is clearly visible.
This is another fourrée. Its weight is 17.27 g : precisely the Attic standard. It cannot be an emergency coin of the 400s BC. Athena's eye is seen...
Very nice. 1st time I see Antoninus Pius smiling.
I don't know if this kind of countermark is actually meaning Xth Legion. All 10th Legion "X" countermarks I can find in literature are in a square...
I don't see a galley on these countermarks. Could the 1st one be a club?
[ATTACH] Not very nice, but this is the only standing caliph (Abd al-Malik) in my box... I think the mint could be Qinnasrin, but I'm far from sure.
Thanks ! Do you have any references for the hoards? I'd like very much to read about hoards containing arab-byzantine undated fulus.
Very difficult !!! [ATTACH] Maurice Tiberius, 8 pentanummia, AE26, 7,18 g, 6 h. Cherson (today Sebastopol), 584-602. Obv.: d n m[…]PPAV,...
[ATTACH] Justin I (518-527) - Pentanummion, Antioch Obv.: d N IVƧTINVƧ P P AVC, diad. dr. aand cuir. bust r. Rev.: the Tyche of Antioch veiled,...
It's written on the reverse exergue : دمشق : dimashq = Damascus. The standing figure on the obverse can be described as the Byzantine emperor...
nice denarius!
The first one is a pseudo-autonomous coin of Myrina, a city in Asia, under the Antonines. It was minted under the local strategos Polyda. RPC...
Byzantine coin Alexius III Angelus Comnenus, billon "aspron trachy". Constantinople, 1195-1203. Obv. Bust of Christ facing (it is an icon called...
Too good... Collecting ancient coins is a secret and somehow shameful perversion. Imagine that, ladies : your nice husband you've been married...
Diocletian? that's a difficult one... There is his daughter Valeria, who married his Caesar Galerius I'm sorry to post such a ruined coin, but...
You really should post better pics. How do you think we can ID a coin if there is not a minimal vision comfort?
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