Renato d'Angio (Rene d'Anjou), the last Angevin king of Naples (il Regno), on a quattrino of L'Aquila, ca. 1435: [ATTACH] + RЄnATVS : DЄI : GR :...
Sorry man, I'm useless with English pennies.
The type seems to have been introduced in 358, possibly for Constantius II's quintricennalia, at some point towards the end of the festive time in...
People being called "transphobic" on a thread about the debasement of coinage has to be a first on this forum...
The flan also looks like the Norman coins of ca. 1070-1135(?) but I don't recognize the type.
"Widow's mite sized" is jargon for "we will use anything and everything but the metric system to measure things."
Always liked these "irregular types" from the early part of the 1200s Antioch and their striking style -- check out that bulky almost space-age...
There are so many things that I "did not often see" but after seeing it once and wondered, I started seeing it everywhere. It's the same as with...
It's very rare, and I think it's an obverse die-match with this one.
The copper version of pseudo-Valence also looks cast? A very interesting piece especially as it comes from Tripoli where, presumably, the mintage...
Some deniers of Toulouse did end up in the Levant, but mostly the issues of Alphonse Jourdain who joined the Second Crusade in 1147. Not sure on...
Regarding the ceasing of antoniniani mintage sometime during the reign of Elagabal, here is a fouree antoninian for Severus Alexander offered by...
Postumus, or Kris Kringle as his friends call him.
And the aegis is very detailed and in great shape.
Probably the most common of types for Florian, but full silvering: [ATTACH]
I think I sent you that material by Bompaire et al about metallurgical and typological considerations on the coinage of Alphonse de France. If you...
Palaiologan material is often a paradox: either completely ignored by both sellers and collectors or in such high demand that even regular specs...
There was a time when you could see these everywhere from CGB to French ebay and the many shops and auction houses from France, but now for some...
A beautiful patina if nothing else: [ATTACH]
Both are Palaiologan types. First one is Michael VIII S.2270, c. 1260s-1270 and the second is Andronikos II S.2349, c. 1290. I don't know why they...
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