Great examples and the Latin "Manuel" type is in great shape. Here are some flat trachea: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I have no knowledge of Arabic and my knowledge of islamic history is very limited to the parts relevant about the contact between Europe/The...
I am no longer ignoring you, life is too short to keep internet grudges :vulcan::vulcan::vulcan:
This is very strange: if an accidental pairing, you'd expect the Iovian obv to be paired with the earliest of the types for Valentinian, which was...
Revisiting this thread in the light of Julian Baker's new book Coinage and Money in Medieval Greece 1200-1430, which came out last year and which...
These are called unguentaria and were probably used to keep and pour different kinds of ointments.
RIC gives it as 324-5 for Rome with the PROVIDENTIA legend. 324 is probably at the earliest as it follows a rather long period of backwatering (or...
But the PROVIDENTIA campgate starts at Rome in 324 when Crispus was already a man and a soldier, on his way to becoming the hero of Hellespont.
Hm. Coins with wedding cakes on them.
That seems to have been the case with Salisbury also: the guy minted briefly in the name of Stephen but then moved to the camp Matilda and ended...
What is that Lincoln irregular issue? Is it a "baronial" coinage, like that assigned to Patrick of Salisbury during the Anarchy? That looks like a...
Seeing the many beautiful coins added, I'm not sorry I revived this thread now. Here's Roger of Salerno (of the Principate) as Prince of Antioch:...
Hi and sorry to revive this old thread, but your coin is actually Bohemond III from ca. 1165 to the early 1180s.
A small module Anastasius AE23mm 7.79g [ATTACH]
These are the kind of details that seem like they'd be the first ones to go with wear from circulation and (possibly) corrosion.
A heavily worn but still hefty Champagne fairs monies from Provins in the 1150s and 60s: [ATTACH] AR20mm 1.20g ex-CGB E-Auction 183 November 2016
I also think Sicily would be the best guess -- the seated nimbate Jesus is similar to the baronial coinage for Roger II (MEC 14) -- followed by...
It may be so, but we should keep in mind that these minute details that we are searching in order to make clear differentiations were most likely...
It does look familiar, but I couldn't say exactly what it is. Unfortunately I'm also low on time and away from my books.
Think it's a reverse die-match to op?
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