Thanks! Yes, some coins salvaged from some areas of the ocean are just more corroded than others. It must have to do with the salinity of the...
Here's a pillar dollar that I purchased in 2009 from Dan Sedwick. It is from the Auguste, which sank in 1761 off the coast of Nova Scotia. Coins...
Viceroyalty of Peru, Lima, 8 reales, Undated (1577-1587), Diego de la Torre. S-L4; KM-14; Cal-655. 27.38 grams [ATTACH] Netherlands, United...
German states, Saxe-old-Weimar, Friedrich Wilhelm I and Johann III, thaler,1588. Davenport 9774 28.72 grams [ATTACH]
Here are a few for 1589. After this year it is very spotty for me. Viceroyalty of Peru, Philip II, Potosi, 8 reales assayer RL, No Date...
Here are two for 1590: Spain, Philip II, 4 reales, Seville, Assayer D (both obverse and reverse), circa 1590. 12.91 grams [ATTACH] Spain, Philip...
One coin for 1591: Netherlands, United Provinces, Friesland, lion daalder, 1591. A rare date. Davenport 8815 27.11 grams [ATTACH]
Here's a coin for 1592: Netherlands, United Provinces, Holland, rijksdaalder, William the Silent, 1592. Davenport 8841 28.63 grams [ATTACH]...
Here are a couple of coins for 1593: Spain, Philip II, Seville, 8 reales, 1593/2 B. Cal 737 27.52 grams [ATTACH] Spain, Philip II, Toledo, 4...
Actually that follis I posted is a Bellinger/Grierson type 32.
Does anyone use Bellinger and Grierson for typing the ornaments on the obverse and reverse of class A2 and A3 anonymous folles? Here's a link to...
No date on this cob, but it is from Philip II's reign (1556-1598) which includes 1596. New Spain, Mexico, 8 reales, Philip II, No Date, oM O,...
Your owl has excellent centering. All too often some of the central detail falls off the flan, given the generally narrow ones that Athens used....
For 1597, here's another representative. Netherlands, United Provinces Gelderland, lion daalder, 1597/3. Davenport 8826 26.9 grams [ATTACH]
The obverse of the OP sestertius almost looks like a non-Roman imitation, very crude and really unlike what one would expect from the mint of...
That's a beautiful denarius and a perfect representative for Roman Republic denarii. Also, John Quincy Adams, in 1840, played a pivotal role as a...
Here are two coins for 1598. Netherlands, United Provinces, Zeeland, lion daalder, 1598. Three-year reverse type (1597-99). Davenport 8870...
Netherlands, United Provinces, Zeeland, lion daalder, 1599. Davenport 8870 26.9 grams [ATTACH] Here's a Mexican 8 reales cob, no date, but...
That's a very scarce thaler, the "wasp" thaler of Heinrich Julius (Davenport 9092), and it is in pretty nice condition for this issue.
The owl's weight is below Attic standard of 17.4 grams, but this is also a coin that was imitated extensively in the eastern Mediterranean,...
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