Look under the Indian princely state of Travancore.
Depending on the size/weight, its either a drachm or tetradrachm of the Indo-Skythian king Azes.
Yes, it is a sesino of Venice, late 16th century. Coincidentally, a few days after it was ID'd, I ended up cataloging about a three hundred...
None that I know of. For current scholarship, see O. Bopearachchi. Monnaies Gréco-Bactriennes et Indo-Grecques. Paris. 1991.
Any mint attributions on Baktrian coins later that the Diotidids are based on the fantasies of Mitchiner. While it is true that the various...
I think it needs to be said that this is an excellent "oldest coin." It is common and inexpensive while still managing to hail from an area and...
Hristova & Jekov list two varieties of the serpent type for Macrinus & Diadumenian with the magistrate Pontianus: H&J, Marcianopolis 6.24.22.1-2,...
Woops, I meant 12h. STOP CONFUSING ME! :confused:
Your coin is 5h, that's just the boilerplate explanation from the CNG Frequently Asked Questions page. Die axis is a surprisingly useful bit of...
Steve, just an fyi:
In a thread a few weeks ago, I asked a question. Suppose for a moment that you collect one very specific area of coinage. Examples of the series...
They did! There is a 24 Miliaresia/48 siliquae medallion of Valentinian I. 66mm and 103 grams. I have held it before and believe me, there is...
Looks like it should be 7th issue, phase 3, spring 274. The forthcoming RIC does not list one with this impressive bust type. See the normal...
The second one appears to be unlisted in Price - I could find no tetradrachms with the snake symbol in left field and no other monograms. I do not...
The Marcianopolis pentassarion was just too cool. It stole my likes from this coin. ;)
This is one of those times were a foreign word describes things more succinctly than an English can. The German's would describe what the king is...
Since you couldn't read the date, you might even say this is an epoch fail. :D
Howabout a god fighting a serpent? [IMG] EGYPT, Oxyrhynchus. 2nd-3rd century AD PB Tessera (26mm, 6.53 g, 1 h) Athena-Theoris advancing right,...
Whatever academic initially trumpeted this claim has a woefully poor understanding of the complicated numismatics of Kilwa. Here's what I said in...
It's definitely Ptolemaic. A shot of the obverse, as well as the diameter in millimeters and the weight in grams are required before we can ID it.
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