Thank you CT Friends for such a useful information! Some time ago I have experimented with hydrostatic weightening of this stater with result of...
This coin is not a genuine EL stater. It has a little chanses to be a contemporary plated forgery in the best case.
I remembered this old thread :) New "still life" from 2021 [ATTACH]
Ha! I have a "cyrillic trained" eyes and have not seen retrograde S. I think this is an interesting! Thank you very much for your attention!
May be Persefone looks like... [ATTACH]
Today I'll start a new medieval Monday :) My favorite type of ecu d'or is an early from Charles VI and Charles VII. But I do not want a coin from...
I agree with you about tiny coins @dougsmit . Every time I have purchase a tiny after short time I have sell it - they are difficult to pick up in...
Thank you very much to all Collegues! Yours all "syracusians" are great, big tets, eye catching bronzes which are lovely to admire and tiny silver...
Superb tet! I have not seeing it before.
Hmmm... I think about 3/4 of my coin purchases was totally planned before. Almost every coin is a result of study and in some cases of long...
Weight is 4.28 grams and diameter about 16-17 mm.
For me this is an unexpected local purchase of coin originated from Kunker 2016. At any way this is an iconic words "Syracuse dekadrachm" :) I...
I also have done a colorised version :) [ATTACH]
One of my favorite medieval coin - franc a'cheval. They are realy difficult to find in good condition and good style dies. Mine is from CNG 111,...
I think this is a novodel (restrike at state mint may be end of XVIII century, may be XIX century).
Ups... Sorry, I forget about this difficulties... The legend is: "Tsar and Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of whole the Rus". From cultural and...
This coin is a little late for medieval in general but it can be accounted as medieval in Russia. It's a quarter of hungarian ducat struck in 1654...
Beautiful stater!
I have change a three different darics and finally get stopped on this one. This is a late type contemporary Darius III - Alexander III. I do love...
I think first 2021 CNG auctions show to us a new reality with high demand and prices for good antique coins. But in some old proposition and...
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