You're welcome. There were so many of these minted during the period that exceptional examples are bound to exist.
It's a groat (or asper) of Bulgarian tsars Ivan Alexander and Michael (1331-1355).
Last summer a similar specimen appeared and was sold by Artemide Aste. It is in a far superior condition which attracted enough interest from...
The follii look like they might have come from the same hoard and also the Pilate prutot. Most of the coins offered are probably middle-eastern...
I can't wait to see the finished body of works and thank you for accepting my submission on Italian Renaissance, even though the main focus of the...
For Molise I recommend Ruotolo's works.
I'm pretty much interested in feudal Europe in general.
That is a great helm, this time with full jousting/parade attire. Notice the nice cross-shaped breething space on the left cheek. [ATTACH]
The helmet used on this design seems to be a crowned frog-mouthed great bascinet. In Eastern Europe they seem to have had a longer usage in actual...
See my post regarding the Jacques II sizains here:...
It was fun, but by far my favorite show this year was Twin Peaks: The Return.
From stranger things to the strangest. This is one of Lanz's offers: [ATTACH] These small "barbarous radiates" are considered to have...
In 2015 I studied the coin in the original post and considered that it might be one of the obscure AE2s minted during Maximus's reign in Barcino,...
These are the known denarii of Claudius Gothicus:...
I know nothing about Islamic coins, my interest is mainly Late Empire, Medieval Europe, mainly France, the Crusades and some 15th century Italian....
I'd be very weary whenever someone calls a coin "unique," especially when this description comes from a dealer. Take the Vcoins denarius of...
One of my main goals in numismatics is trying to date things as much as possible, and while you have very exact dates for Roman and early...
After the fall of Armenia in 1375, descendents of the Lusignan family used the title of "King of Armenia" for another 100 years.
Considering that these are usually very common today, together with the chronicler's remarcs and the fact that the smallest denomination, the...
By 1460, the island of Cyprus was already tributary to the sultans of Egypt, so their support was important, especially for someone who did not...
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