Looks like a cast tourist copy of a gold 8 escudos ("piece of eight") from the Spanish colonies in the New World. These are often sold in gift...
I already posted a full thread on this coin over in the Ancients section ( https://www.cointalk.com/threads/come-on-baby-light-my-pyre.306781/ )...
Well, I'm back home and enjoying my dinner, so time to try and read some ancient script... I am prepared to ID three of the dates. I still can't...
Very nice coin! Good quality Parthian bronzes are tough to find, and early bronzes (with the portrait of the king wearing a bashlyk) especially so.
Not really an error collector, but I do have this double-struck Parthian drachm of Orodes II (57-38 BC). The first strike was badly off-center...
You can narrow it down to a specific mint city and range of years: there is one character on the reverse side (not very clear on your specimen,...
My gift showed up a couple of days ago, I am doing my best to hold out on opening it but I make no promises :nailbiting:
All four are Khusro II (unsurprisingly, his drachms are by far the most common Sasanian coins). Here's my reading of the mint marks: 1. BBA=...
I could tell you now, but it's night, so I will wait until the Rising Sun. Maybe I will root for the Buffaloes against the Tigers.
I agree with @Severus Alexander, the coin looks good to me. There is some slight roughness on the surface, but it doesn't look like casting...
[ATTACH] Constantius II, bought unidentified (with several other LRB) at $3/coin, c. 1993.
I won this coin in Frank Robinson's latest auction: [ATTACH] Roman Empire, Antoninus Pius, posthumous, under Marcus Aurelius (c. 161 AD). AR...
Thanks for the comments everyone, I enjoy hearing all your different perspectives. Yes, please feel free to start referring to the renumbered...
Here's Septimius Severus celebrating his victory over those dastardly Parthians: [ATTACH]
It's that time again for year-end Top 10 lists, so here are my top 10 favorite coins that I acquired this year. I had a good year collecting, and...
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Ah, thanks for the language lesson @Severus Alexander, I did not know that. Related: I've also heard the term "jumble sale", is this also a flea...
At the risk of piling on, these all look very much like modern copies and not like genuine ancient Roman coins. Also, the fact that they were...
The "gold" coin on the right of the bottom picture is supposed to be from Sasanian Persia. I think it might be copying Peroz (459-484 AD) but the...
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