Great photo, and a very attractively toned coin! Your coin is catalogued as Album 68 in Steve Album's "Checklist of Islamic Coins (3rd Edition)"....
Thank you @Alwin for your input. Your point about lower-than-expected style diversity is very true. I certainly would not claim that most mints...
I'm late to the party as usual, but welcome @EireWeish ! Please forward your membership dues to me, I'll make sure the Treasurer gets them...
@dougsmit : You are correct, if we accept the reassignment of S. 81 coinage to Sanatrukes (the nephew of Osroes I), there are no coins struck...
Thank you for the kind words and suggestions, everyone. @Mat : Your suggestion about style isn't stupid at all. On some earlier issues, there is...
For what it's worth, I also immediately saw the same pattern as @shanxi . Unfortunately, that head is not distinctive enough for ID by itself,...
This post is a little longer (and more speculative) than usual, but I hope you enjoy it and I welcome any feedback on my (possibly hare-brained)...
I guess I might mention that I am proud of my Sicilian heritage, and I recently posted about a coin of the Normans of Sicily:...
Nice! Here's an obol of Eukratides I: [ATTACH]
That's a very cool token. So, they offered taxidermy and fancy glasswork in the same store? That seems like an odd mix of businesses to offer.
This is what I use as well. Of course, it leaves the coins of non-Islamic states in India unaccounted for, but I try not to worry too much over...
Well, an extreme rarity, if genuine. I don't see anything that immediately screams "fake" to me, but such an expensive rarity would normally be...
Looks like an imitation of Sellwood type 19 or 20 (reverse legend is too blundered to guess which type was meant) of Artabanos I (old attribution)...
I had fun as a volunteer in 2019, and I'd be happy to do it again, if you still need participants.
I've always been fond of this "Constantine I" (or as the coin calls him, VVVVBVVVVDNVVBTTVVBB: [ATTACH]
Neat! I have one of the 5 lire coins issued pursuant to this decree: [ATTACH]
I've always thought the design used on Italy's 100 lire coins for most of the second half of the 20th century was excellent. It doesn't exactly...
I have one of the same type, an obol of Eukratides I: [ATTACH]
Nice pick-up @Mat . Tetradrachms of Vologases VI tend to be especially low-silver billon, it's not hard to guess that the Arsakid dynasty was...
Indeed, a very cool type, I still have no ancient Persian gold of any period (though I think that's understandable for the Parthian era ;)). But...
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