1. Sixth series / Lords of Naples and Sicily William II, Norman, called "The Good" King of Sicily (rare) scarce crescent moon with stars and date...
There's some extraordinary bust types in this series: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
By as early as 1415 Cyprus started paying tribute to the Mamluks, including "booty" so that the Egyptian warlords could brag about victories in...
By this time Jacques was a soldier of fortune who, as an illegitimate child, conquered Cyprus from his half-sister Charlotte de Lusignan and her...
Jacques II also claimed Armenia: [ATTACH] · IACOBIS · DЄI · GRATIA · RЄX · IERUSALEm : CIPRI : ARmEnIE · ;
A distinctly good style Florent d'Avesnes-Hainaut as Prince of Achaea: [ATTACH] AR19x18mm, 0.81g, billon denier tournois, minted at Glarentza,...
A rare siliqua of Constantius II from Rome, from a lot of late roman silver offered by Herbert Grun: [ATTACH] AR19mm 2.94g silver siliqua, minted...
If they were advertised as "Spanish shipwreck" coins then it is false advertising. Another reason to get your money back.
Extremely interesting, but Sear 2590 is well into the 14th century, in this case supposedly overstruck on ca. 1110 for Baldwin II. And a big...
These are very interesting and nice but I would be very worried I might lose them.
A frying pan for really smol fish
You can access the Alphonse de Poitiers article here. As a fan of the Capetians of the 13th century I thought you already knew about it. I'm sure...
If you refer to the errors and missattributions in Boudeau, I think they are mistakes worth making. I also look at how wrong some great...
There is a reticence as far as dating goes in the field of medieval numismatics that sometimes borders on disinterest.
There is that and then there are the obvious style differences between types. I wonder if there wasn't a second mint pushing the same type at the...
@+VGO.DVCKS the dating is usually very tentative as in all long-serving types with style and minor detail differences but I think that it is...
One of the classics of medieval France, the denier parisis of Louis VII: [ATTACH] AR20mm 1.05g billon denier parisis du 3eme type, minted in the...
Two "Revolt of Poemenius" AEs: An AE2 21mm 3.86g ex Lanz Auction 100 Lot 579 (2000) ex Dr. Ernst von Ferrari-Kellerhof Collection (2009):...
No prob.
Hi, the proper plural for Augustus is Augusti and for Caesar is Caesares.
Separate names with a comma.