Yeah, unfortunately a sane and temperate leader who presided over an era of peace and prosperity doesn't make for exciting stories. Here's a...
Very nice! Here's my Arados stater, with a date of Year 15 of King Gerashtart (Gerostratos): [ATTACH]
A lot of Parthian coins feature headgear with earflaps. On this coin, the frontal view of the earflaps and the diadem loops makes it look like...
Thanks everyone for the replies, this is exactly the sort of thread I always hope my posts will start. Just want to reply to a few: @dougsmit :...
As others have stated, Shapur I, looks genuine but rather low-grade for these. Not a rare coin (nice problem-free examples are almost always...
Punchmarked coins of India are interesting, but can be tough to attribute. Here's one I think I have figured out, in terms of assigning catalogue...
The top piece (round hole, inscriptions on both sides) is not a coin, it is some sort of token or amulet. The bottom coin is a 1 mon from Japan,...
Very nice Vespasian coins everyone, here is my sestertius with Roma reverse: [ATTACH]
Another vote for Byzantine. Rotate the first picture left 90 degrees and you can see the (crude) portrait of Jesus. The scyphate (cup-like)...
SC is found on many Roman bronze coins and stands for Senatus Consulto (By the authority of the Senate). During the Empire, the Senate...
Good catch! The date of 1218 for destruction of Susa by the Mongols came from the Wikipedia article on Susa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susa...
Another summer auction win: [ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom. AR drachm (3.42 g, 20 mm). Orodes II (57-38 BC). Susa mint. Obverse: Diademed bust...
Very nice! I have just one coin of Islamic Spain, struck by And al-Rahman II and dated 232 AH (846 AD): [ATTACH]
I have bought from Sphinx and never had any problems.
I think this is actually a token for Nowruz (the Persian New Year celebration), there are a lot of varieties of these.
Thanks Chris for confirming the David Sellwood provenance. I never buy coins just for the provenance- there has to be some merit in the coin...
Very nice coin, from the land of my ancestors! Although my ancestors at that time probably didn't see a lot of gold coins, they were more likely...
I don't know of anything that's precisely an online copy of Sellwood or Shore (and that would probably be a massive copyright violation if it...
We've all been fooled at some point. This coin fooled me early in my Parthian-collecting phase. There are multiple signs of casting, but even...
Hello @Alegandron , Your coin is indeed of a King Mithradates, who ruled c. 58-55 BC. He was called "Mithradates III" by the old attribution...
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