The second isn't Roman or Greek - it's a Jewish coin minted during the Bar Kochba War, AD 132-35. I'd have to do some digging to find an exact...
Yeah, I'm sorry I can't help you. They look Indian. Somebody will know.
That bigger shiny one is a Jefferson nickel. :)
I do not collect the good emperors, but I happen to have one that I acquired from Mat, just because it's a lovely denarius. [img] I am...
That's right - sorry. I'm mixing up minting techniques. I know planchets for proofs go through annealing furnaces on conveyor belts without...
You have excellent tastes in denarii. :thumb:
That is beautiful indeed.
I'll repost the link Ardatirion gave in another thread to the Library of Ancient Coinage at Numiswiki....
There you go. If you read all that, you might know half as much as Ardatirion. :)
Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Persia (Nabataea, Arabia Provincia, S. Arabia, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia,...
It is a good idea - somebody start it. I have to use the loo.
http://ia600202.us.archive.org/5/items/cataloguegreekco00brit/cataloguegreekco00brit.pdf Big book, takes a minute to download.
I don't even bother taking my own pics if the seller's is that good.
I also found a pdf download of George Francis Hill's Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Persia in the Royal British Museum....
I thought you had that book, or am I mixed up? (Don't answer that.)
Yup, Fred just emailed. It's mine. :) Now just my luck, it'll get lost in the mail.
We had a discussion a little while back concerning all those chatter marks, particularly around the edge, and came to the conclusion that at least...
I'll give it a shot, but I'm a rank novice, so bear with me. [IMG] Area 1 appears to be die polish - all of the lines are concentric, and appear...
Just turn the brightness down a bit and the contrast up, and they won't look washed-out. Good stuff.
I got the reference. That show was over-the-top, and quite entertaining.
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