Here is a picture of Khan Krum receiving the skull cup of Nicephorus I as illustrated in Madrid Skylitzes. As a general note, the Sicilian coins...
[IMG] After the disastrous Battle of Pliska, where Emperor Nicephorus I died in battle and his skull was silvered and turned into a wine cup,...
While most of the punch mark coins were issued in the Northern part of India, here is one that was issued by the Pandyian Kingdom of South India:...
The first one will probably be difficult to identify, but the second one is GH-566: [IMG] [IMG] Obverse Five official punches. Reverse One...
I wish I had my books in front of me to help, but alas, my copy of Gupta-Hardaker (and other coin books) is packed away and in storage... [IMG]...
BTW, its gets a bit more crowded with Constantine VI: Byzantine Empire: Constantine VI & Irene (780-797) Æ Follis, Constantinople (Sear 1596;...
That is a great coin! That design is one of the better ones that was issued around this time. Those coins are very difficult to find in good...
@robinjojo What a wonderful series! This is right up my alley and I thank you for posting this. I do admit I haven't seen NOVA is quite some...
Auctions...Those are the only sensible place to get coins of higher conditions these days, unfortunately. These are somewhat special as they were...
:) I am actually a strong believer in giving credit to other people's work. I do that at work and I do that personally. Its just harder to do on...
I am usually good about giving credit to other authors and the like, but I just slipped on that one. It was definitely from Mike Markowitz as I...
Those illustrations were never done by myself and are actually from an article I got from somewhere, either from Bendall or from another source...
Here are a few Pallava coins from my collection. I really have to re-organize my South Indian coins as there are several that I need to take...
There are several, but dated. I typically use the following: The Coinage and History of Southern India - Part 1 and Part 2 by Michael Mitchiner...
Any particular reason why you don't like Byzantine coins or Xristian iconography? I am not Christian, myself, but find them fascinating (applies...
Sear 2372? (http://labarum.info/lbr/show.php?coin=23720)
I posted my set of North African Emergency Notes in the following thread: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/they-call-me-mellow-yellow.273784/...
This particular coin was sold multiple times, originally as a Justinian II half follis to a Artemius half follis. I can't see why it was...
Here is mine... [IMG] and an interesting one where the obverse image is reversed... [img]
I don't think that there isn't any interest, its just we are flabbergasted by your ability to identify coins when at times, it seems impossible...
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