@David Atherton : Make sure you check those coins carefully for errors. Errors are very common in circulating US coins, and are always worth big...
Quite a few Parthian kings took the throne by murdering their predecessors (often their own father or brother), so Phraatakes was not really...
Well, I could be completely wrong in my ID. Greek is really not my strongest area of numismatic knowledge. And it sounds like the reverse is...
My "gut" reaction is Hieron II of Syracuse (270- 215 BC), his most common coin resembles this.
All right, time to share again my Julius Caesar lifetime portrait denarius (from January-February 44 BC): [ATTACH] My original write-up on the...
[ATTACH] India, Saurashtra-Malwa-Gujarat region (?). AR drachm. Anonymous "Gadhaiya Paisa" type derived from Sasanian precursors, early period...
[ATTACH] Elymais. AE drachm. "Prince B" (3rd century AD). Obverse: Diademed bust of king left, anchor and crescent behind. Reverse: Athena...
Reverse reads "Pautalio..." so I'd assume Pautalia in Thrace. I also think I can make out "Geta" on the obverse, in front of the bust (unless I'm...
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I have about 300 Chinese cash that I collected a while ago (90s- early 00s) that I IDed by Schjoth number, but haven't done anything with them...
There was a major countermarking of all Brazilian circulating copper in 1835, including this coin that started out in 1825 as 80 reis but was...
It's not Japanese, it's Chinese, Qianlong emperor (1736-1795), Board of Revenue mint. No date on the coin, sometimes these can be narrowed down a...
[ATTACH] Abbasid Caliphate. Armenia mint. AR dirham. 145 AH (762/3 AD), time of Caliph al-Mansur (136-158 AH/ 754-775 AD). Anonymous type,...
I went to the Baltimore Whitman Expo in November and agree that it's a good show for ancients. Regarding "medications", there was no requirement...
@+VGO.DVCKS : Glad you enjoyed my coin and thread. Sadly, I can't take credit for alerting you to those authors- I'm afraid I've read very...
Just to keep things numismatic, here's my most related coin, a very rare issue of the Khazars: [ATTACH] And my original write-up:...
Actually, Nero did issue some semisses that were marked with an S as a denomination. The SC that is so common on Roman Imperial bronzes stands...
Maybe it's a gaur? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaur (link is informational only, not commercial)
[ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. Traxiane mint. AR drachm (3.36 g). Orodes II (57-38 BC). Obverse: King's bust diademed left, crescent behind....
My first ancients purchase was a group of several LRBs from a local coin store in the winter of 1992/3. The first one of these that I was able to...
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