This emperor was lucky to have Belisarius commanding his armies![ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I think that both the 1000 and a 200 Mohur specimens are in collection of a Gulf Prince.....nice to have that kinda dough. Maybe same one who...
Nice Jovianus! I could kick myself now....Rauch had a stempelglanz Jovianus Solidus Nicomedia mint for 4500E starting bid, I won that Pulcheria...
Yeah! CNG was good about it. I told them to keep on acct. for Triton II. When that auction came up, I was successfull and got that FDC Elagalabus...
They will need a large page format to show life sized photos of the massive 1000 Mohur coins. These are 200mm in diameter/560 oz. gold! I think...
Nice Trajan Decius coins... Whenever I see that Emperors coins, I think back to Triton I auction. I had saved up a wad of $ cutting lawns all...
Nice cuties! I, also have no "cut" coins...sorry. I do have one that was "clipped" by someone, unaware of the horrible penalties they faced if...
Thanks, I was really lucky, Rauch had these two coins in their auction last year. Dehli coins are tough to get in mint state quality. John
Thats good to hear, I should have my book in about 7-10 days. By the way, are they doing a book on Mughal Empire coins as well? John
Thanks for corrections, I wish I could read arabic script.
Time will tell, I got my "eye" on a nice one with a LION on Roma auction. Wish me luck! John
Son of Mohammad III bin Tughluq. Story goes, his father was returning home from a successfull campaign vs the Sultan of Bengal. At this time the...
You know, I just looked at the photo....you are right!
Great point Doug... Esp. when you consider GOLD is a very soft metal. One reason, I think is that many gold coins were hoarded/some even collected...
Thanks! Sorry, the reverse photo is not great. A lot of these Byzantine coins were weakly struck, esp. the legends.
Byzantine Emperor Leontius II 695-98AD Constantinople Mint[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
My AV Tanka Mohammad III bin Tughlaq in name of Abbasid Caliph [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Love those crocodile coins! Some day I hope to have one too, really like ancients depicting wild animals! John
Will do! John
In a lot of cases its a bidding war between two collectors with deep pockets. Sometimes, however there is a once in a lifetime dream coin like...
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