I've been quiet lately due to being busy at work, but I'm still kicking and still collecting, so I'll take a few minutes to catch up on posting my...
I've posted this coin previously, but it's such a lovely little coin that I don't mind showing it off again: an obol of Eukratides I: [ATTACH]
To quote from Richard Plant's invaluable book "Arabic Coins and How to Read Them", p.8: "One other fact must be noted, that in the 800's and...
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I'm already in Baltimore, and I greatly enjoyed going to the Fall Whitman shows pre-pandemic, so (assuming the COVID resurgence isn't too bad by...
I don't know if there is a well-defined "set" that collectors of Crusader coins seek, there are several members here who specialize in Medieval...
I have a well-worn example of the RR denarius featuring Marsyas: [ATTACH] And a bronze of Elagabalus from Berytus (Beirut) featuring a statue of...
I have one of the Claudius Alexandria diobols: [ATTACH] And some real hippos that I saw on safari in Tanzania back in 2015: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I won two coins. Despite my general collecting focus on the Near East, both my wins were from North African cultures. Well, that's at least...
I tend to grade on the conservative side, I'd grade it a solid Fine+. (The difference between "Fine+" and "almost VF" is left as an exercise for...
That's a very nice OP coin (and the other examples shown), it's one of the types I have on my informal "want list" but haven't found the right...
It took me a long time to find my current avatar coin, a tetradrachm of the Parthian king Artabanos IV (c.10-38 AD). The heavily off-center...
On the reverse, it looks like the inscription starts out "Perga...", so maybe search through coins of Pergamon?
No worries, I was just making a joke. Here's a tetradrachm of Seleukos I Nikator (305-281 BC), in the name of Alexander and struck at Babylon:...
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Welcome @Kaveh Alaf Pour , it's always good to see more people here interested in the history and coins of Persia. I agree that you'll probably...
Bankers' marks are fairly common on Achaemenid Persian silver. Here's one with three separate bankers' marks on the obverse, c.375-340 BC:...
Here's a Constantine I that I acquired in an uncleaned lot with just a modest 7 rows:[ATTACH]
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