Amazing thread. Towards the end of last year, I broke a long-standing personal “jinx”, finally “winning” a “horned” Elagabalus type showing the...
The other two I mentioned. On the second one, you can clearly make out Shiva’s mouschache and his hand resting over the bull’s hump. Kushan...
Nice coins. The tetradrachms are quite common, but hard to find in a good state of preservation. The ithyphallic aspect (seen in your second coin)...
I had once written to the National Museum, New Delhi, pointing out that a breast-plate in their collection, which reportedly belonged to the...
Kushan Dynasty: Vima Kadphises (c. 100-128 AD), AE Tetradrachm, First Bilingual series, Kapisa mint, Göbl 762, MAC 3008 (17.06 g, 27 mm) Obverse:...
India, Mughal Empire: Humayun, AV unit of uncertain denomination, NM (Badakshan type), AH955 (0.72 g) Obverse: Kalima: La Ilaha Al Allah,...
Nice coins. I too find such coins difficult to photograph: playing around with certain settings in Lightroom helps sometimes. Here is the other...
Yes; also multiple cities (12 or more, if I recall correctly).
My introduction to the type was through Wayne G. Sayles’ Ancient Coin Collecting. He does not delve into the specifics of the attribution, but...
Adding my specimen to this wonderful thread: Pontos, Amisos, AE31, time of Mithradates the Great (Mithradates VI) (c. 120-63 BC), Amisos, 109-89...
For me, it took a month on average, sometimes two, even pre-COVID. Once, a package shipped from Hungary, stamped “Prioritaire”, showed up after 6...
Very nice, complete coin. The obverse has “Sanah Ahad” at the end of line 2. The reverse has “Zarb” (struck at) above the mint name, with the AH...
You are right. The mint name is indeed “Surat”, seen in the left margin of the first image. The second set of images (the obverse) is upside down....
That is a great example and your attribution is perfect. The mint name is also on the reverse (just above “zarb”).
Ionia, Kolophon, AE Unit, ΠΥΘΕΟΣ magistrate, 50-30 BC, SNG Copenhagen 186-187; SNG von Aulock 2017 (6.74 g, 20 mm) Homer is a legendary ancient...
Thanks again. I looked at some additional examples of Price 1349 on acsearch and think you have solved it. The one from a 2018 CNG auction seems...
Shah Jahan (AH1037-1068/AD1628-1658), AR Rupee, Daulatabad mint, AH1062/RY 25 (11.3 g, 22.8 mm) (Almost) complete mint name in the right margin...
Thanks. There is a flatter part, almost like another bird, just under the hand that I am unable to match with the sword/club symbols.
Here is a Drachm (4.1 g, 15 mm) I have had for a long time, but have been unable to identify. I tried http://numismatics.org/pella/ and other...
These are great results with the kit lens! While it won't match a top-end dedicated Macro lens in terms of image quality, I have found Canon's...
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