Here's my second write-up for coins received this week: [ATTACH] North Africa, Numidia. Micipsa (148-118 BC). AE 25. Obverse: Laureate bust...
Just got this and two other ancients a couple of days ago, I will be posting full write-ups on the others soon. Meanwhile, please enjoy this:...
Great Top 10, Doug! I think my favorite coin is #3- that 3/4 perspective is wild, and I don't recall ever seeing something like it on an ancient...
Please enter me in the contest, thanks.
The copper coin is from China, the English inscription is "Tai ching ti kuo copper coin" meaning "Great Qing (Dynasty) Imperial State copper...
Can't tell much from the photos, but in the top photo, if you rotate it to the right 90 degrees, I think the main design is a shield. The top...
I don't have a scale handy, but the diameter of my coin is 28 mm. It is very thin, and I believe it may have originally been slightly scyphate...
One explanation that I've heard for the existence of such small coins is so that they could more easily be carried in the mouth o_O Clothing in...
Here's my example of this coin type: [ATTACH] It's from Hungary, struck by the king Bela III (1172- 1196). Obverse shows Bela and his brother...
Nice haul, especially the Parthian. I always try to get tetradrachms with a clear month (for those issues that include the month), they can be...
I have several coins of Vespasian, the best portrait is on this sestertius: [ATTACH]
Nice collection! I have just one coin from Ghana, a 50 cedis from 1997: [ATTACH]
This coin arrived in the mail yesterday, just wanted to share it after I did my research. [ATTACH] Roman Empire. AR denarius. Faustina Junior,...
Here's a Khusro II from the mint ShY (probably Shiraz): [ATTACH] And an obol (Sasanian fractional silver is a lot scarcer than the drachms) of...
@TIF : Thanks for your thorough discussion of the ostrich coin you showed a while ago. I remember I asked why a Thracian would show an ostrich on...
Here's my IDs, I welcome any corrections. All your coins are Qing, or Manchu, dynasty, the last dynasty to rule China before it became a Republic...
I'm not an expert, but I have done some collecting in Chinese and other cash coins, and I can recognize most of the more common types (or at least...
I have two coins relevant to this period. Both are junk box finds, coins for the proletarian masses :happy: First is a copper 5 centimes from...
Sorry, nothing from the Kadambas in my collection, but I do have a nice depiction of Hanuman on a ramatanka (Hindu temple token): [ATTACH]
@7Calbrey : Definitely Khusro II (590- 628 AD), his drachms are the most common Sasanian coins. Khusro is also spelled Khusrau, Khosrau,...
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