Spengler and Sayles wrote Turkoman Figural Bronze Coins, volumes 1 and 2, which covered the Artuqids and Zengids. Unfortunately, Spengler took ill...
Coin photographs on the web often do not give an impression of the size of the coin. If you recognize the coin as, say, a denarius, then you know...
Here is a Gordian III of year IIII = 242/3 struck at Viminacium. [ATTACH] 28 mm. 21.24 grams. PMS COL VIM Female figure holding inscribed...
You can't leave us hanging like that! Please spell them in upper case and then tell of who they are. I'm sure 95% of us are mystified by that post!
Here is my double sestertius next to a photo I took of the Trajan Decius bust in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. [ATTACH] I have commented on CT...
Here is a coin of Justin II and Sophia (565-578) from Carthage: [ATTACH] 23-21 mm. 9.11 grams. (pretty thick) Denomination: half-follis =...
The irony of a victory over Parthia type makes that type especially interesting. Here is a VICT PART of Valerian: [ATTACH] Victory standing...
In 1988 I went to a coin show in London at the Marlborough Crest. John Cummings (a dealer) had a whole tray of Alexander drachms, presumably part...
I've had three over the years--two I got in a large lot and neither had the camel's head. They are long gone, replaced by this one, which is not...
That's right, it is Aurelian, a tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt.
We just had a wonderful thread on Maximinus Thrax, the giant. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/maximinus-thrax.381866/ This coin of his son...
Here is the last issue of Maximinus, from 238. [ATTACH] PM TRP IIII COS PP. TRP IIII dates it to year 4, 238 before April [BMC] BMC 219 Sear...
I think you will appreciate having images of your coins on the web. You have quite a variety. I really like your comments. It is not just a...
"suspicious..Lots 108, 109, 112, 116, 121,125, 129, 180, 184, 188.." I looked into a few of the pedigrees given in the Lansky auction. I have a...
EDIT: See my research below, confirming the pedigrees.
@JFRTM, I like your broad approach to collecting world coins. On the off chance you get interested in ancient coins, here is a page on various...
Thank you. EDIT: I posted below about the pedigrees.
Can you identify for us a few lot numbers of coins you regard as fakes?
I am announcing my website on Byzantine coin legends: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/legends.html It is possible to collect Byzantine coins by...
[ATTACH] After Italy was reconquered for the empire under Justinian, Syracuse, on the southeast coast of Sicily, became a Roman mint. Under...
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