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I don't have any Julius Caesar coin... And I wish I had this device in my kitchen : [ATTACH]
In Philip the Fair's time, the Knights Templar were no longer warriors fighting the Sarrazins in the Holy Land, they had become bankers. Because...
You may be right: the very word Mesopotamia must have automatically "raised a red flag". But it is understandable. Since 2003 and the fall of...
At first sight this looks stupid. What will the Italians do with these very common modern and ancient coins w/o any provenance?
It's a coin of Sardis, Lydia. Obv.: head of Herakles right (rotate your pic 90° counterclockwise) rev.: in r. field ΣAΡΔIANΩN, in l. field...
1400 is the last year of the 14th century, I think... So : AR grosso of the doge Michele Steno (1400-1413), Venice (Italy ;-) ) [ATTACH] Obv.:...
That's an unusual collecting field. Do you mean that if a coin is of a king called Charles, it doesn't belong in your collection? I suppose...
very nice ! [ATTACH] This is a small bronze of the Seleucid king Alexander Zebina (BC 128-122) I got for not much, in a bowl full of small...
Collectors do not only collect ancient coins just for the beauty of the thing, like bunches of flowers in vases on the dining table. They also...
Crusader ! [ATTACH] Tripoli, Count Raymond III (1152-1187), AR pougeoise Obv: + BΛMVND COMS Cross with group of three dots in second quarter....
He is accused of fabricating false provenances for the rare coins he auctions. I have been pissed off by the looting of a hoard found in Gaza in...
I don't know John Anthony but I wish he gets well soon... And nice Philip Jr ! Here is mine: [ATTACH]
counts of Bearn, (905-1134), denier, Centulle mint [ATTACH] Obv.: +ONOR FORCAS, PAX in monogram (read clockwise from left) Rev.: COM CENTVLLO,...
Nur al-Din Mahmud (1146-1173), AE fals, Aleppo [ATTACH] Obv.: Christ nimbate standing, blundered Greek legend : IC XC (retrograde) and in left...
another anon. Byzantine follis, of the time when the Orthodox Church broke up from the Catholic Church (in 1054). [ATTACH] AE follis, class D...
[ATTACH] the same kind of coin, but for Constantinople... the victory on a schematic galley symbolizes Constantine's naval victory against...
In fact, Wahballath is not only laureate. He is laureate and diademed. On well preserved specimens, it is conspicuous. His titles, VCRIMDR, stand...
[ATTACH] Constantius Gallus, centenionalis (?), Antioch Obv.: D N CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES , draped and cuirassed bust right Rev. : FEL TEMP...
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