Wow! This has been a great year for me. Today I received in the mail a coin that I have searched for since I started collecting ancients. [IMG]...
I see no mention of this in Neil Shafer's United States Territorial Coinage for the Philippine Islands. But this book is, of course, a little bit...
Let me boil it down - buying and selling is not a requirement. I agree, however, that most every advanced numismatist should buy a little - its...
Now I know you'll all be jealous of this. A pity with the sea damage, but that really makes it more interesting to me. Its one of the only medals...
As per Merriam Webster (my italics) Numismatics: the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (as...
Fine, nobody believe me... The obverse is from a medallion of Commodus, the reverse a medallion of Antoninus Pius. The images are from the plates...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDJ3sor2oQ0
The penny is from Great Britain.
A modern struck counterfeit of a medallion of Commodus. There may or may not be an original that it copies.
Thank you! Knowing the great persistence you out into your own collection, this really means a lot.
Would you have access to the equipment required for this work? Provided it isn't too destructive to the coin, I'd be glad to let you use it.
Ah! You're right! I wasn't interpreting those things as turrets at first, I thought it was just a poorly done Serapis headdress.
The Saloninus is the one I've been drooling over. :D But the plot thickens... Emmett doesn't list any standing male deities for Saloninus......
Doug - do you have any more up to date articles on this? SO much new information has been uncovered on Baktrian coins that I would doubt validity...
As Stainless would say, a little mojo: [IMG] Celtic Gaul - The Remi EL 1/4 stater - 1.48 g, 11mm c. 100 BC Celticized head Celtic horse...
It circulated as a low-denomination double unit (we don't know the actual name). I believe I read, on Doug Smith's page if I recall, that these...
Mitchener, The World of Islam
I've been patiently waiting to find one of these for quite some time. Its one of the first nickel coins ever struck, made in the Hellenistic...
Emmett 1405(21) and 1436(4) respectively. 157-158 AD for the first, 140-141 AD for the second.
It used to be ebay. But its been absolutely dry for me, I haven't gotten anything there since March. Lately, its been vcoins, and one or two shows.
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