I agree with @The Meat man , portrait looks like Julia Domna and inscription looks like Greek, hence Roman Provincial from the Greek-speaking...
It's a Festivus miracle! In today's mail, I received a package from @lordmarcovan : [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Not only were there the 7 silver US...
Hi @lordmarcovan , I would like to enter to win this lot. And something cheerful: Here's a Northern Shoveler duck I photographed last year....
The reverse of this coin shows the god Shiva with his mount Nandi, a humped bull (zebu). Zebu are still common in the Indian subcontinent:...
This year started off slowly for me, but by the end I managed to purchase some very nice coins. No "bucket list" pieces, but I ended up with some...
Tetradrachms of Tigranes II of Armenia. A major hoard was found recently, but the average price hasn't come down as the hoard is being slowly...
[ATTACH] Arab-Sasanian. AR drachm (33 mm, 3.43 g). Herat mint. Governor Salm ibn Ziyad (c. 61-65 AH/680-684 CE), dated 67 AH. Obverse: Bust...
@paschka : I don't think your coin is Kushan (no Kushan bronzes have a female bust obverse as far as I am aware). The humped bull (zebu) on the...
My quick-and-dirty, gut-level IDs (take with a grain of salt): 1. Either Valentinian I (364-375) or his son Valentinian II (375-392), I think...
[ATTACH] Kushan Kingdom. Taxila mint. AE drachm. Wima Kadphises (c. 113-127). Obverse: King standing, right hand sacrificing over small...
[ATTACH] Turco-Hephthalites. AR drachm (with AV plug). Vasu Deva (c. 600-719). Design based on Sasanian prototype of Khusro II. Obverse: Bust...
In the second row, the leftmost coin portrait resembles Antoninus Pius, and the reverse of large SC was often used on coins from Antioch....
[ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. Seleukia on the Tigris mint. AR/billon tetradrachm. Vologases IV (147-191 CE), dated Apellaios 464 Seleukid Era (=...
@paschka : Your coin is of Ardashir I (c.224- 241), the first Sasanian king and the only one shown on his own coins wearing a Parthian-style...
Here, as usual, is my brief, highly personal and biased, recap of my day at the Whitman Baltimore Coin Expo. This year I attended on the first...
Rotate the second photo 90 degrees to the left, it's a ship's prow with Phoenician inscription below. Coins from Arados in Phoenicia have a very...
[ATTACH] Samanids. Bukhara mint. AE fals (26 mm, 4.06 g). Nasr II b. Ahmad (914-943 CE), dated 305 AH (917 CE). Album 1452. This coin:...
Ah, okay. I misunderstood your question. I have no idea where that mysterious two-digit true date is supposed to be on the coin, I don't see...
[ATTACH] Sasanian Kingdom. Lead unit (3.02 g, 14 mm). Shahpur II (309- 379). Obverse: Bust right, symbol before of double arrowhead(?)....
[ATTACH] Sasanian Kingdom. AE pashiz (12 mm, 0.35 g). Kavad I, second reign (499- 531). Obverse: Bust of king right, star behind and crescent...
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