In any case a fourrée is a silver plated contemporary forgery. Probably not what you're looking for
It's always exciting to get a copy of a book you've been looking for, doubly so when it once belonged to a noted numismatist. Are there any notes...
A Chinese cash coin of emperor Wen Zong from the Dongchuan mint in Yunnan province, cast circa 1853-1861.
Most shell money is prepared in some labor-intensive way, generally ground down to beads and/or holed and strung. At the very least it's carried...
Cowrie shells were in use during the Western Zhou dynasty, c. 1122-771. I am inclined to count them. Do you? What I'm saying is that we should...
I only meant to say that there is earlier evidence of collecting in the far east than in the west. The debate over who invented the first coins...
What most people don't realize is that Chinese coins have been collecting since at least the Han dynasty (221 BC-AD 200). The earliest Chinese...
We are definitely talking about the same place. The father runs that location, and the son runs another in York. The son is actually a nice guy -...
The worst part about this is that you probably had to drive on Centerville Road to get there. (I think that from your location and the...
Seutonius notes that Caesar gave out old coins, but I'm not sure if that quite counts. Petrarch is the first modern coin collector. The oldest...
Ptolemy II Philadelphos. AR Tetradrachm. Tyre mint.
I thought I'd share another new addition. This brings the total number of tesserae in my collection to 129, with an additional two dozen or so...
Definitely not. But the relative prices are still useful. If a coin is listed at 200,000 Lire in 1982, when the others were at 200, that shows...
Sorry, that's still modern to me. :yes:
About half of the volumes are available for legal download here: http://www.medievalcoinage.com/pdfbooks/pdfbooks.htm
For modern Italian varieties: A. Pagani. Monete italiane. Milan. 1982. For earlier: Corpus Nummorum Italicorum. 20 Vols. Rome. 1910-1943.
Size and weight is always helpful. But in any case, the Arabic in this us very crude. I think it's a 20th century jewelry piece.
The creature represented is most likely Abraxas, a gnostic deity. The intriguing part is the addition of the phallus. Abraxas was never portrayed...
I don't think it's good. All the Itanos pieces (staters, drachms, even hemidrachms) have the reverse struck in a very shallow incuse. Yours does...
Germany isn't too far from Cnut's Scandinavian holdings; a few Anglo-Saxon pennies could easily be found there. And the coins themselves look fine...
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