Thanks @Pishpash, glad you enjoyed the coin! I'd like to give a big thanks to my generous benefactor, unfortunately he only included his "real...
Late Roman Empire bronze coins, c.300-400 AD. They appear genuine but in very low grade. There are some other members here who specialize in...
Very nice, it is Type #1 in Stuart Munro-Hay and Bent Juel-Jensen's "Aksumite Coinage" catalogue. This was issued during the pagan stage of...
So, people are now making counterfeits of counterfeits? Counterfeitception? o_O My brain hurts, I need to go lie down...
It has the appearance of being a modern cast copy or "tourist fake". But if you'd like other opinions (including some real experts), I suggest...
Wow, thanks for the additional info. Somehow I read Gobl, and remembered about the different crowns, but the part about Peroz' name substituting...
How about three heads? :p [ATTACH] Vespasian, with his sons Titus and Domitian.
A Frank Robinson auction win: [ATTACH] Sasanian Empire. AR drachm. Peroz (457-484 AD). Obverse: Bust right in crown. Reverse: Fire-altar with...
Well, that stamp (along with a couple of others of the same design) was on a letter that was mailed to me (in the United States) from an Ebay...
Cool! I have a candareen from a different Ming rebel, the Prince Yongming (also called Prince of Gui), using the reign title Yong Li c.1646-59:...
Another recent Agora Auctions win: [ATTACH] Achaemenid Persian Empire, uncertain satrap, possibly in Ionia. c.350-334 BC. AE 12 (12mm, 1.24g)....
Spain, 5 pesetas, 1891. All hail King Baby! [ATTACH]
Cool, I had heard of this self-declared country before but didn't know they had issued coins. I do have a postage stamp from there: [ATTACH]
Just thought I'd mention one auction house that hasn't come up yet: Stephen Album Rare Coins. They do about three auctions a year (besides their...
I just can't get enough of those facing Parthians... [ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom, mint of Seleucia-on-the-Tigris. Vologases IV (147-191 AD). AE...
Looks like a cast tourist copy of a gold 8 escudos ("piece of eight") from the Spanish colonies in the New World. These are often sold in gift...
I already posted a full thread on this coin over in the Ancients section ( https://www.cointalk.com/threads/come-on-baby-light-my-pyre.306781/ )...
Well, I'm back home and enjoying my dinner, so time to try and read some ancient script... I am prepared to ID three of the dates. I still can't...
Very nice coin! Good quality Parthian bronzes are tough to find, and early bronzes (with the portrait of the king wearing a bashlyk) especially so.
Not really an error collector, but I do have this double-struck Parthian drachm of Orodes II (57-38 BC). The first strike was badly off-center...
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