Here's my IDs, I welcome any corrections. All your coins are Qing, or Manchu, dynasty, the last dynasty to rule China before it became a Republic...
I'm not an expert, but I have done some collecting in Chinese and other cash coins, and I can recognize most of the more common types (or at least...
I have two coins relevant to this period. Both are junk box finds, coins for the proletarian masses :happy: First is a copper 5 centimes from...
Sorry, nothing from the Kadambas in my collection, but I do have a nice depiction of Hanuman on a ramatanka (Hindu temple token): [ATTACH]
@7Calbrey : Definitely Khusro II (590- 628 AD), his drachms are the most common Sasanian coins. Khusro is also spelled Khusrau, Khosrau,...
Here's a quick illustration of where I'm seeing the face. I rotated the coin 90 degrees to make it easier to see. The area I marked in orange is...
The obverse seems to be a stylized human head facing right. I don't think it looks like the standard realistic portrait of Tanit on most...
My guess is some sort of Celtic. As always, my guesses are worth exactly what you paid for them.
Looks like a modern cast copy of a Nero (54-68 AD) Antioch tetradrachm. Note the overall cast appearance, tiny raised areas (such as in Nero's...
Here's another write-up for one of my new acquisitions from the Baltimore Whitman show, hope you enjoy it. [ATTACH] Roman Empire, Egypt,...
Here's my facing bust drachm of the Parthian king Phraates III (70-57 BC), Sellwood type 35. One of the piercings destroys the mintmark, but...
I haven't sold many of my coins (other than my Parthian collection, which is sitting on consignment at the moment), but here's one that I kind of...
Guys, cool it with the free publicity for Frank Robinson! Soon, everyone will be bidding in his auctions, and I won't be able to compete anymore!...
I picked up one coin from Frank's list, this provincial AE of Herennia Etruscilla from Viminacium in Upper Moesia. Hardly a gem coin, but not bad...
Could it be medieval Armenian? Medieval Armenian coins seem to be reasonably common, and Armenian uses its own weird and wonderful alphabet,...
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I agree that the OP coin is Sellwood 63.6, from the Parthian king who reigned c. 10- 38 AD. But is it Artabanos II or III? Depends. Sellwood...
The text is definitely Japanese, but it doesn't resemble any official Japanese coins. I feel very sure that it is a token of some sort. Your...
Sorry, I thought I had already used and explained those abbreviations in an earlier post. GCV is Greek Coins and Their Values, GIC is Greek...
[ATTACH] The Italian 500 lire coins starting in 1982 had the denomination written in Braille:
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