Coins were also issued for the "Mengjiang United Autonomous Government" (puppet state in Inner Mongolia): [ATTACH]
Rivalling Rome: Parthian Coins & Culture. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Alexandra Magub. London: Spink and Son Ltd., 2020. ISBN 978-1-912667-44-4....
Sorry, not a 1916. The 1916 SLQs have the Type 1 reverse (no stars under the eagle) while your coin has a Type 2 reverse (3 stars under eagle).
[ATTACH] Japan, Nagasaki trade coinage. c.1668-1685. Gen Ho Tsu Ho. Hartill EJC 3.176. Although this coin copies the inscription of a Chinese...
Interesting little historical vignette, thanks for sharing. Does it go on to say how Ptolemy or his advisors interpreted this dream?
[ATTACH] To start with, almost all of your coins (with 3 exceptions) appear to be Chinese, and from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). For these...
[ATTACH] Roman Empire. Arabia, Rabbath-Moab (Areopolis). AE 27. Septimius Severus (193-211 AD). Obverse: Laureate bust of Septimius Severus...
I agree with @The Eidolon , I enjoy helping people here and sharing whatever information I can. If you have any more, please post here so we can...
Yeah, if not everyone is wearing a mask, and they're indoors and within 6 feet of each other... then there's no point. To steal (and modify) a...
The book I mentioned is Michael Mitchiner, "Oriental Coins and Their Values (Volume 1): The Ancient and Classical World 600 B.C.- A.D. 650" which...
Well, I'm no expert, but that's never stopped me before. I borrowed a few photos from the Web, and based on Mitchiner I found and outlined...
The book "Coinage in the Roman Economy 300 B.C. to A.D. 700" by Kenneth W. Harl is an excellent source of information about the ancient Roman...
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Looks very much like one I have (that isn't handy and I don't have a photograph, sorry). The Senones are the tribe to which this type is...
From the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, I have a circulated but nicely toned half dollar, plus a large-sized guidebook to the Expo:...
Excellent post @Orielensis! I have two jitals from Kurzuwan to share. The first is of Ala ad-Din Muhammad II (1200-1220) and has no date:...
+1 for pachinko tokens from Japan. A little Googling turned up this, not identical but related, piece:...
The two very thick pieces are not official coins, they seem to be some sort of amulet or charm. In the third picture, the piece on the right is...
Sorry I haven't been posting much lately, I've been busy with work. (It turns out "working from home" means "still spending lots of time working,...
Re: the use of antibodies vs. vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, there's a useful (and not over-technical) discussion on Derek Lowe's "In the Pipeline" blog...
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