I don't know if this kind of countermark is actually meaning Xth Legion. All 10th Legion "X" countermarks I can find in literature are in a square...
I don't see a galley on these countermarks. Could the 1st one be a club?
[ATTACH] Not very nice, but this is the only standing caliph (Abd al-Malik) in my box... I think the mint could be Qinnasrin, but I'm far from sure.
Thanks ! Do you have any references for the hoards? I'd like very much to read about hoards containing arab-byzantine undated fulus.
Very difficult !!! [ATTACH] Maurice Tiberius, 8 pentanummia, AE26, 7,18 g, 6 h. Cherson (today Sebastopol), 584-602. Obv.: d n m[…]PPAV,...
[ATTACH] Justin I (518-527) - Pentanummion, Antioch Obv.: d N IVƧTINVƧ P P AVC, diad. dr. aand cuir. bust r. Rev.: the Tyche of Antioch veiled,...
It's written on the reverse exergue : دمشق : dimashq = Damascus. The standing figure on the obverse can be described as the Byzantine emperor...
nice denarius!
The first one is a pseudo-autonomous coin of Myrina, a city in Asia, under the Antonines. It was minted under the local strategos Polyda. RPC...
Byzantine coin Alexius III Angelus Comnenus, billon "aspron trachy". Constantinople, 1195-1203. Obv. Bust of Christ facing (it is an icon called...
Too good... Collecting ancient coins is a secret and somehow shameful perversion. Imagine that, ladies : your nice husband you've been married...
Diocletian? that's a difficult one... There is his daughter Valeria, who married his Caesar Galerius I'm sorry to post such a ruined coin, but...
You really should post better pics. How do you think we can ID a coin if there is not a minimal vision comfort?
I have in a junkbox two more sigloi (that's the plural of siglos). I just took the pictures with my smartphone, so please excuse the mess 1) a...
It's a Byzantine coin. Not Kidding : Byzantium, 3rd c. BC Obv.: Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath. Rev.: ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ / ΕΠΙ /...
Persian Empire, yes, but not minted in Persia (now Iran). These silver coins are called "siglos" by numismatists and were minted at Sardis, in...
why posting the same pic several times? and if you need ID, why posting a blurred pic of the obverse? https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2736
Number 3 too
This iron arrowhead is not Roman, it is rather early medieval. Look at this plate : [ATTACH] Arrowheads from the Reihengräberfeld of Bülach in...
I already said on this forum that when I was a rogue youngster, I visited Greece and was hiking on the hill overlooking Eretria. And on the path,...
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