The reference book for these coins is Malek, The Dabuyid Ispahbads and Early Abbasid Governors of Tabaristan: History and Numismatics. Since most...
Looks very similar, but you are correct. Its hard to make out the details. Thanks for the picture!
Wow! What a spectacular coin. Its a definite eye popper. Been meaning to get a Roman coin in this condition for a while. Hard to beat that...
Thanks for the confirmation. The coin is definitely a I don't have Bendall's PCPC and thus those scans will definitely come in handy.
Please do as it would be an awesome verification :D
Thanks David. That was the first thing I did and thus I exhausted both Trebizond and all other coins in Sear. This coin is the only match in...
The problem with several of the byzantine coins that are somewhat unpublished is that it is either truly unpublished or it has been published...
Here is one that I bought a while ago as an unidentified Trebizond coin, but it seems to be Sear 2538, supposedly, an unpublished coin of John VI...
There are still some emperors missing, especially the rarer ones, but I posted a good representation of the coins in the empire that are in my...
The Splintered Empire - Empire of Trebizond Manuel I Comnenus (1238-1263) AR Asper (Sear 2601; Bendall 20; Retowski 11) [IMG] Basil (1332-1340)...
The Splintered Empire - Empire of Nicaea Theodore I Comnenus-Lascaris (1208-1222) Æ Trachy (Sear 2061) [IMG] Theodore I Comnenus-Lascaris...
The Splintered Empire - Empire of Thessalonika One of the gems in the splintered empire, next to Trebizond, the coins of John Comnenus-Ducas has...
The Splintered Empire - Latin Rulers of Constantinople and Thessaloníka The coins are not identified to any one particular ruler. There are...
The Restored Empire with Michael VIII Palaeologos onward... Michael VIII Palaeologus (1261-1282) Æ Trachy, Thessalonica (Sear 2301; DOC 161)...
Prior to the breakup of the Empire following the Fourth Crusades Nicephorus III (1078-1081) Æ Anonymous Class I Follis (Sear 1889) [IMG]...
Sear 1761 is overstruck, as typical, with an undertype that is Sear 1760. Sear 1783 is also overstruck, as typical, with an undertype that is...
Constantine X Ducas (1059-1067) AR ⅔ Miliaresion, Constantinople (Sear 1851) [img] Constantine X Ducas (1059-1067) Æ Anonymous Class E Follis...
Michael IV (1034-1041) Æ Anonymous Class C Follis (Sear 1825) [IMG] Constantine IX (1042-1055) Æ Anonymous Class D Follis (Sear 1836) [IMG]
Constantine VII & Zoe (913-959) Æ Follis, Constantinople (Sear 1758) [img] Constantine VII & Romanus (913-959) Æ Follis, Constantinople (Sear...
Onward.... Michael II the Amorian (821-829 CE) Æ Follis, Constantinople (Sear 1642; DOC 9) [img] Theophilus (829-842) Æ Follis, Constantinople...
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