The de la Roche family ruled a vassal state in Greece after the fall of Constantinople during the 4th Crusade.
Thanks! That is small.
Can we get some kind of scale/reference to see how small it is? Nice coin, nonetheless.
My wife gets me a coin every year, either for my birthday or Christmas. She knows what I collect and only buys from vcoins or forvm. My...
I collect ancients for a lot of reasons. The two biggest are: #1, the history. It's literally holding history in your hands.#2, you can actually...
Entry post. Thanks for the chance!
Watch Behind the Curve on Netflix, or any source that has it. It presents the flat earthers point of view (there are multiple groups with...
Didn't Coin World do an article on this recently? The lowest-value coins from Rome were the quadrans. They were 1/64th of a denarius.
I like foreign coins.
Even if it comes back only at "authentic," it has value. Send it to get graded.
The "new penny" is today's penny in Britain. They put "new penny" on the coin during the 1970s to indicate it was a part of the "new" decimal...
iPhone was a bit more metaphorical than literal. I guess I should have said smartphone. To be even more clear, today's smartphone is Rome's purple...
A good friend of mine works at a t-shirt warehouse and snapped a pic of this that came down his line. He's one of a very few that know I collect....
Have you met your generation? Owning the new iPhone is priority #1.
Nice collection. Here's my only Judaean coin. [ATTACH]
My other hobbies include stamp collecting, fossil collecting, baseball memorabilia collecting, astronomy, and genealogy.
It looks ok to me. Board of Revenue mint, East branch. The coin is very common, but still cool. I don't have a 10 cash in my collection yet.
Worn coin or not, the details are not as sharp as would be expected for a struck coin. It does have a cast look to it.
I recommend the book Reading Medieval European Coins by Ralph S. Walker. While the book isn't very thick (it's around 40 pages), it gives a great...
I did do the attribution, hence how I noticed it was off. I was asking if this was common.
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