www.sixbid.com site for all (well most) auction houses. You will see Kunker/Baldwins/St. James/Cayon/Rauch/Heritage/Stacks/Ars Classica/Hess...
The author Emmanuel Azzopardi. This book has great photos/ writeup on the history during the period of the Crusades 1000-1453. You get good maps/...
I do not mind going full bore for 8 months, I take the Winter off. My work (landscaping) is seasonal, as the saying goes, "You gotta make hay...
Thanks! You are correct, most of the time these old Florins are so worn, hard to read the legend, see details. Same for my home City of Koln...
Here a my AV Zecchino ND circa 1376-96AD Mytilene issued by Giacomo Gattilusio Lord of Mytilene. The AV issues from Mytilene are all extremely...
I agree, Indian coins have some of the most interesting designs, certainly not boring.
Yeah, the Mughal Empire controlled most of india/ like the Dehli Sultanate they conquered, when their armies destroyed the Dehli army at Panipat...
AV Mohur AH 1130 year 3 (1722AD) Khujista-Bunyad Mint struck for Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah 1719-48 John[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
MS-63 example from the "Sun King" Perfect FDC Louis d'ors from Louis XIV are very hard to get.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thanks. Hard to believe, that coin remained, "unsold" at a Raineri Auction. I bought it aftermarket for starting price....good deal. Its the ONLY...
A Mohur! These were used by most Indian Princely States, replaced the AV Tanka used in by the Dehli Sultanate. Weight was 11.66 grams. The Mughal...
AV Mohur 1787/8 Muhammad Benares Mint Bengal Presidency struck in the "name" of Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thanks for correcting me on that, I had always thought that with precious metals, inflation would be non existant Always glad to learn... John...
Here is AV Dukat 1697 Nurnberg Mint from Hohenlohe-Neuenstein struck for Julius-Wolfgang Graf [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Von Neuenstein obv. Bust of Graf....
That is a good point, I never realized that. Thanks for pointing it out.
Thanks Steve, I guess we cannot blame Phillipe, since he had an alliance with England. It was really, the English who were starting to loose...
Here is one of my favorites> AV 2 Dukaten 1578 Salzburg Archbishop Johann Jakob Khuen Von Belasi with Rudolf II Holy Roman Emperor still top boss!...
This coin is pretty common, Naples was important, and they struck lots of gold/silver coinages. MS-64 examples of course are quite scarce in...
Passau never issued large mintages for any coin they struck.... I read that there are less then ten of these known, so not super rare, but rare...
Salzburg made some REALLY nice coins. Unfortunately, I can't afford them. I will post my best coin from there. John
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