Me like this ¡Muy mucho! Never seen this one before! Got a new decanummium to look out for....
dah...:rolleyes:, didn't even read that paragraph from topcat7. Explained very nicely, indeed...
What, exactly, is hacksilber? Heard that term several times without having a good understanding of its use...
Here are a couple of things I picked up recently. They all come from Donick Cary's personal collection. You can find more about him on Wiki...
That is one, outstanding set! May I ask how long it took you to assemble it?
That is indeed a nice one. For some corrupted reason, I like the back-stabbing ones :). I also picked up two FEL TEMPs this week, but they are...
He is on most of the auction sites including NN and VAuctions. Lost several coins on both of those auction sites to Clio... :(
Picked up another tet during the current CNG auction (and lost several too and my wife called me away for two hours so that really didnt help :()....
High on my want list to complement my Byzantine collection! Those crosses are gorgeous indeed...
Welcome to the world of tets! I, no doubt, believe that this isn't going to be your last as you have now been sucked into this beautiful and...
Aside from the ones that have already been posted, here are several that you don't normally encounter: Arya Chakravartis of Jaffna: Anonymous...
There have been plenty of times when I have lost a bid on CNG and wished I had upped my bid accordingly or couldn't believe the final hammer price...
I suspected that the pentanummium was overstruck, but I couldn't put my finger on the host coin. The votive was exactly what I was looking for....
I usually try my best to research unknown coins myself as I get some joy in going through catalogs, research papers, journals, and history books,...
Here are some of mine including a lead seal that mimics an anonymous follis. I am hoping to get the remaining ones, which are more difficult to...
Obverse, by convention, is always the side with the "highest authority" on the coin in relation to the other side. As such, in the case of these...
Yep. Khotan was the last enclave to use Kharosthi before it died out. It had been extinguished in Ghandara by that time and was replaced with...
Oh man! That is a coin that I wanted for a loooong time. Nearly impossible to find. :(
Some overstrikes are simply beautiful whereas others are just a numismatic mess. Here are a few from my collection: Byzantine Empire: Michael...
Dups, you betcha! It is sometimes difficult to get the quality you are looking for, so in the meantime, you pick up a lesser one until you find...
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