Here's most needlessly complicated/expensive auction experience, made all the worse because I discovered the sale through the relatively modern...
Marcianopolis in Moesia Inferior
The silver dirhems for the Umayyads in Spain are much more common than the gold. Neat coin.
Looks familiar! Here's mine: [IMG] Still a little to chilly to comfortably ride here. (I'm lazy and don't want to buy any extra equipment.)
Carthago, does Crawford have anything useful to say about banker's marks? There are a very, very few Roman tesserae that have what are clearly...
I've actually seen this one. I have a saved search on ebay for "token" in the ancient coins category, in hopes of catching some under-cataloged...
I have not seen any. I was only aware of the gold kavanahu issues, and the later bronzes. Could this be a Chola issue from the mainland?
*blush*
ENTER THE SANDAN. good song
The problem comes when you try to consign a coin that you would call VF, but I'd say is maybe Fine and not worth auctioning. I break a lot of...
Antonio Veniero grosso. Cf. http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=234612
Janiform simply describes a head with two faces, whereas Janus refers specifically to the deity. Additionally, the term "gryllos" can be used to...
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This is actually the usual course of research with these. You look at a tessera and see a horse, so you think, "Ah, for entrance to the races!" Or...
The earliest firmly dateable ones are from the early Julio-Claudians. I've seen people argue that, as some tesserae share similar names to...
Who is M. Arrius Vestinus? We don't know. These two tesserae, along with two others not represented in my collection, are our only record of this...
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This would imply a level of law enforcement that simply did not exist in the Empire. And with regards to the idea of gaming tokens, I would ask,...
A big, resounding yes! But that's another coin that will hopefully arrive later within a week or so. I don't want to jinx it by posting it now.
You know I've got my eye out for my Cointalk peeps. :)
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