What a great dynamic reverse on the third spec.
The story of Vidocq is so famous and legendary that he became some sort of super-hero crimefighter avant la lettre, a sort of mix between Sherlock...
Best packaging and overall service were in no particular order Roma, TimeLine, Savoca, CGB and Naumann.
I for one did not see that legend as AVSS, but CAESS but with some corrosion obscuring some letter parts. Perhaps in hand it's easier to see the...
Ok, I'm convinced now.
Good points, but the bust and the lettering are very good plus the overall style seems consistent enough to be the work of a skilled die cutter...
I think its official.
... Now *I* am hungry... :vamp::vamp::vamp:
So basically a snack for Donna's tiger.
CATS.
Well, unless Z.P. is a vampire living somewhere underground, the very compact material, the very similar condition of discovery and the identical...
I have fugitively scrolled through some previous auctions of theirs and now am I almost certain it is a hoard, probably from around the western...
The first two are white whales for anyone collecting antoniniani, well done. Congrats :cat::cat::cat: Later edit: they even look like they could...
I think his PhD thesis on coin circulation in the Latin Kingdom is available online and/or it was published by IAA or INS. When I get more time I...
I strongly recommend R. Kool's work for the coinage of Jerusalem in its entirety. Regarding multiple mints for the same realm, it's actually...
See here for an example: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-civil-war-era-issue-for-constantine-i-at-thessalonica.369927/
In 317, after the peace between Constantine and Licinius, the Western mints started issuing again in the name of the Eastern Augustus, even though...
The same discussion would work for terms like 'stater' or 'follis' (up to a point) and I think the reason for most of the confusion is the fact...
I'm not sure there is something accurate enough to give us the chronology we want, the common wisdom is still somewhere between the "rough style"...
Great lot, very representative with a "rough style" and a "smooth style" denier for Baldwin III, besides the obvious star the AMALRICVS denier.
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