Welcome to Coin Talk! If you enjoy ancient history and ancient coins, you've come to the right place. My main collecting interest is a bit...
More info: #9 is from the Abbasid governor Hani (788-790 AD). #11 is from Khurshid (740-761 AD). #10 is Sasanian, Yazdegard I (399-420 AD). For...
Good question! First, let me say that I don't yet have Gyselen's book, I have ordered a copy and it should arrive soon. (Yes, I know- buy the...
Modern copy of an ancient Judaean coin, of the type issued under Augustus by the procurators Coponius (6- 9 AD) and Marcus Ambibulus (9- 12 AD)....
#8 is Parthian, Artabanos II (old references) or Artabanos IV Assar) (c.10-38 AD), Sellwood 63.6. #9 and #11 are from Tabaristan, 9 is from the...
[ATTACH] Arab-Sasanian, Abbasid Caliphate. Shiraz mint. AE fals (2.22 g, 19 mm). AH 137 (AD 754/5). Obverse: Sassanian-style bust right,...
Very nice pick-up. The portraits on 1st century AD Parthian tetradrachms are not particularly realistic, but I think they are aesthetically...
I've been busy lately and haven't posted any new purchases in a while, so I'm now very far behind. If I'm going to have everything posted before...
I've told the story before, but I guess some haven't heard it, and I'll add some details that I haven't mentioned before. I had collected coins...
@The Eidolon is correct, it's Qianlong. (But your photo is rotated 90 degrees clockwise.) The reverse will list the mintmark, but unless it's...
I have just one siliqua, of Arcadius (383-408): [ATTACH]
Wow, that is a beautiful and historical coin, I am green with envy :wideyed: My most related coin is my lifetime issue of Julius Caesar, issued...
Very nice! Here's a denarius from 36 BC, during the Second Triumvirate; the reverse shows priestly implements, emphasizing Octavian's position as...
King Vittorio Emanuele III (1900-1946) was an avid numismatist (his personal collection is now in the National Museum), who was responsible for...
I have this drachm of Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia (96-63 BC), with a rather attractive portrait. On this coin he uses the epithet "Philoromaios"...
Thanks @Publius2 , you are correct, my coin is indeed a cent and not a half-cent. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
Well, the lettering does appear rather sharp compared to the rest of the designs. But I don't know enough about the series to make a judgement on...
United States, 2 cent coin, 1868.
I also have one of the Achaemenid coins featuring the putative map of Ephesus on reverse: [ATTACH] As for the Carthaginian coin linked: I think...
Looks like Renaissance-era Milan, but a later copy, not an original coin. This isn't really my area, hopefully others here can be more specific.
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