I have some medieval coins, mostly early English pennies I want to sell but have no dealers nearby to take them to and I don't want to mail them...
I think it's Louis XIV of France, bust facing left.
May I suggest that, for better good fortune attending your affairs, you try carrying the coin of a battlefield winner and a ruler not succeeded by...
I would pay the price of a fourree and accept it at that. Full freight and I'd want certification. From what i can see of the enlarged image there...
Byzantine Nomisma, circa 1150 more or less. Perhaps Isaac Angelos. Our Byzantine experts can probably nail it pretty fast to exact date and emperor.
I actively collect these drachmas from Cappadocia as they often allow one to get a denarius size and fabric of an emperor otherwise not so easy to...
If the price were a good one, i would have bought it for my own collection.
Studying ancient coins is an interest of a lifetime, a long lifetime. Like you, I started collecting USA, which at the time (late 1950's) offered...
For those of a certain age, I think it looks like it found its way to a fuse box and did yeoman's service for a few decades allowing a few too...
I say, "Goodbye to all that"
Gore Vidal's Julian is an excellent read. It makes one wish Vidal had had a Tacitus or Suetonius to work with. I read it years ago and it left me...
Ditto with Sidebottom. As much history as fiction.
Try Robert Fabbri and his series on Vespasian. A lot of Vespasian's coins are out there and the series goes from Tiberius to Vespasian..
I have one of these. I guess I never considered his brass coinage to be even scarce let alone rare but with the OP's example in such splendid...
I am not an expert on these "turtles" and only have one very,well worn one in my collection. There are, I believe two versions of the Aigina...
Considering the kind of calls I get on my phone I decided not to answer any calls from someone I did not know and did not want to talk to. I...
Yes, a good administrator and ruler with common sense and common decency. I think his brass coinage, though he may not have anything to do with...
That's an excellent coin, owrthy of any collection.
In their mouths.
They used "digital" calculators. If they removed their sandals they had pedally enhanced calculators and could get up to twenty.
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