Thank you! It’s actually today.
One of these days I would like to make a similar set to this. All I have is this panoramic of various Pre-Meiji pieces alongside a round one. I...
Congrats to all!
The top character is written like the printed character （乾）and your variant throughout his reign.
Instead of this character (隆）, the Shan Lung character looks like this. [ATTACH]
They are all Qing, because they all have Manchu on the reverse. This is a nearly comprehensive set of them. The first is of Jiaqing (1796-1820),...
I regard the beginning of the Byzantine Empire at 395 when Theodosius split the Empire between his two sons, Honorius and Arcadius. Here is one of...
Goodness am I late to this! I am very interested in Byzantine money and the Byzantine Empire itself. I think this primarily comes from how not...
Being a fan of Japanese coins I think it would be interesting to be able to purchase them in person at Ginza. However I feel like I would have the...
I did so while I was in Paris and in London almost four years ago. Fittingly, all the coin dealers in Paris (or at least a decent chunk of them)...
One of these days I’ll get one. They seem hard to come by in my limited experience, and it doesn’t help that Qian Long of the Qing dynasty is one...
I can’t help with the marks unfortunately.
They all are Mahmud II. The first and second ones are year 19, while the third is year 14. The first two are Cedid Adli, while the third is a Rumi...
Ngc’s pic shows the full die image.
Here you are! The piece shown has the dies a little different but I’m sure they’re the same type.
It is from Indore I believe. That sun always sticks out to me. 5.5 grams would make it a half rupee.
This one is Japanese, from 1662 to around 1700. At that point the only Ming claimant left was Koxinga on Taiwan. He was born in Japan though!
It is my post near the top. The one with the center hole.
Hmm, a seven and 左. And of course the cursive 文 mark. Curious! Also, the reverse kao is identical to the one on the 100 mon. It probably is the...
I have a few Ming coins; here is one of Yongle mentioned above.[ATTACH]
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