As others have already noted, Tyrian shekels seems the most likely possibility, but there's no way to be sure. The original text is vague, and...
An excellent selection @Alwin . Lots of wonderful Parthians (of which my favorite is probably the Mithradates I bronze), but my favorite coin...
Oh, and just to clarify, that reverse on the Arab-Sasanian coin is a creature from Persian mythology called a Gopadshah, which has the body of a...
Well, I finally received the Gyselen book. I should clarify that I have the First Edition (published in 2000). There is a Second Edition, which...
A very nice list @Quant.Geek . My favorite is probably the Arab-Sasanian coin (imagine that), I still don't have that obverse type in my...
A very nice coin. Here's my post from a couple of years ago, with my example of this type and giving some background:...
A very nice group @zumbly , my favorites are probably #6,5, 2, and 1 (hard to choose among those four). On #9, the countermark looks like he has...
I still have a couple of outstanding bids in Frank Robinson's next auction, but it looks like I'm mostly finished with my coin purchases for 2020,...
[ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. Ekbatana mint. AR drachm. Artabanos VI (called Artabanos IV in older references) (c.212-224 AD). HIs bust right,...
Agree that it looks like a cast copy, but just to clarify about the original coin: it's not DIVI AVGVSTVS, it's DIVI F AVGVSTVS. The F stands...
Very nice group, my favorite is the wedding thaler (#3).
Mitchiner states that it is written in Gurmukhi, which is the writing system used for Punjabi. For far more information than you probably want,...
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