I have been told that, for older books that may be fragile, you should store them flat on the shelf instead of upright. Keeping books upright in...
Well, my own numismatic library is threadbare by comparison, but here's a view of the single shelf it occupies: [ATTACH] And we can look at each...
Two coins won at Frank Robinson's latest auction, both Italian states issues: Emilia (Tuscany) 1860 1 lira, and Sardinia 1794 20 soldi. The 1860...
I found this in the laundry room of my apartment building in 2018; presumably, it fell out of someone's pants pocket in the washing machine. It's...
I just wanted to let everyone know that I definitely do not have an addiction to copper coins. Nope, not me. The beautiful brown toning, or the...
[ATTACH] Arab-Byzantine. No date, struck c.73-78 AH (693-697 CE). Amman mint. Obverse: Standing Caliph, sheathed sword slung over left side,...
[ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. AR drachm (20 mm, 3.51 g). Laodicea mint. Orodes II (57-38 BCE) . Obverse: Diademed bust of king left, crescent...
Looks OK to me. Your coin is Hartill 16.407 or 16.408 (depending on whether it's large or thin lines on the characters- I think yours is thin and...
Would be interested to see these, but definitely a modern concoction targeting tourists. Most Indigenous American societies did not have...
Assar's argument against Parthamaspates as the issuer of S. 81 coins is as follows: Parthamaspates had influence only in and around Ctesiphon...
Thanks for the link to your very thorough webpage. I also collect coins showing Rome's conflicts with Persia, though I'm primarily an "Eastern"...
The inscription on the obverse of the second coin looks more like [DN] HONORIVS PF AVG, which would make it Honorius, not Theodosius II. Not sure...
The first coins with this inscription Wu Zhu (Five Zhu) were issued in 118 BCE, but this type continued, sporadically and in many varieties, for...
[ATTACH] Indo-Greek Kingdoms. AR square drachm. Apollodotos I (c. 160-150 BCE according to Mitchiner, or maybe a bit earlier according to...
[ATTACH] Most long-term coin collectors eventually build up a "black cabinet" of fake or altered coins they have purchased along the way, either...
All four coins appear to be Judean issues, probably the prutah denomination. #1 and #4 are from the Hasmonean dynasty (c.140-37 BCE), these are...
[ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. AR drachm. Aria mint. Phraates IV (38-2 BCE). Obverse: Diademed bust of king left, eagle behind head holding...
Thanks for your guesses everyone. As @Alwin has already guessed in the other forum, the reason I decided to bid was because of the Parthian...
I won this group lot of 2 Parthian drachms and 3 Bactrian silvers (2 square drachms, 1 obol) in the latest Stephen Album auction. Just for fun, I...
(photo borrowed from seller because I have trouble photographing tiny coins) [ATTACH] Sasanian Kingdom. AR obol (0.38 g, 12 mm). Peroz (457-...
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