Most Islamic coin types consist of Arabic legends without images, but in the 12th and 13th centuries Turkoman rulers in eastern Turkey and Syria...
The flans of the first two have very similar manufacture which seems to be the way official flans were made. (The OP coin has that type of flan,...
That is always a question with these. I think mine, the OP coin, is official. The lettering is too good for an Arabic imitation. I think your...
The island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean Sea hosted a Byzantine mint (probably at the city of Constantina) for three years under emperor...
Sticker paper and paste have chemicals. I wonder if they have potentially negative affects? If you use clear plastic flips, you could have the...
I got this humorous take on history in an email today. I am repeating it virtually unchanged, except for including a Roman Republican coin (and...
Here is a coin of the emperor we call Licinius with an early long version of his name. [ATTACH] 25 mm, which is large for a coin of Licinius...
I recently got the first coin which helps tell a good story. Coins of Maximian, co-Augustus (286-305) with Diocletian, often have the simple...
I agree that prices have gone up since covid. I will stipulate that and write about the history of prices before 2020. I have a large library of...
Here is my take on ancient coins as a monetary investment: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/investment.html They are an investment which pays...
They are both genuine ancient coins. On the left is a coin of Roman emperor Aurelian, 270-275. It is a tetradrachm from Alexandria, Egypt. On...
I have an ancient imitation of a London follis of Diocletian. [ATTACH] 26 mm. 4.87 grams. (Notice how light it is.) IMP C DIOCLETIANVS PF AG...
I thought the poll was about the first OP coin which I regard as a man-faced bull. When you corrected the other member, I noticed I, too, had...
A genuine Jotapian is a $5000 or more coin. There is strong incentive to make fakes, hoping someone will pay well on the hope the coin is...
Yes. Whenever you buy a coin from a photo you should, when it arrives, critically compare it to the photo in order to learn to "read" the photos...
Doug is right, as usual. Error coins can be of interest in US coins where almost all are struck correctly and double strikes are very unusual....
It is a modern cast fantasy (fake) with only a slight resemblance to the original ancient Greek coin of Philip II. It is not Celtic. It is not...
I just added a table illustrating the three portrait styles of Maximinus Thrax to my website on his coins:...
Here are my top ten coins of the year 2020 that each cost, including shipping, $100 or less. I did buy some coins over $100, but this list is...
There are quite a few nice, nearly full flan, official issues of that Claudius II CONSECRATIO type. That makes me think yours is unofficial.
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