The harpa is nothing like a modern scythe - it seems to have been primarily a mythological instrument inspired perhaps by the Egyptian...
Sodium thiosulfate ("hypo", the photographer's "fixer") dissolves horn silver (silver chloride); mild acids dissolve silver oxide. Neither will...
Doesn't look like any commercial weight I'm familiar with, Greek or otherwise. The weight though is 1/8 of the Mesopotamian/Persian mina of c.500...
And a very interesting addition too. Always interesting to read knowledgeable contributions about topics outside the conventional Greek and Roman...
So what do we think of these two rather rough looking electrum types? The top one is a stater of 14.06 gm, and the bottom one is a half-stater of...
Oh dear I've made a real mess of this. I have to say that I come from other forums and I have never really got the hang of this one. For example,...
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To me the relatively heavy weight (after some damage?) suggests an official issue. Ross G.
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Yes, I found it thanks. My impression is that only a couple of the earliest Phocaean standard types turned up in the Artemision context, and this...
Do you have a reference (e.g. Head No) for this 1/48 stater? Ross G.
I think this is our old friend the copper version of the John III Vatatzes Hyperpyron Sear 2073. These things appear in many guises with various...
This looks like the small module version of the the Latin type Jordanov Type IV (CLBC 11.31.3, Lianta 105-6). For more details see here:...
Here are some interesting coins from the excavations at Anaia in Western Anatolia: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The authors originally described these...
For the Latin sequencing see now here: Sequencing the Latin Types (glebecoins.org) Ross G.
This is Sear 2465. Sear gives it to Andronicus II & III, but I suspect it belongs earlier, to Andronicus II & Michael IX. See here (the last...
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