What's PCGS??
I wish there was a smoking gun. It would be nice to have an inscription that said, "King Aretas distributed tokens of largesse at such and such...
AN, the attribution you made of your coin seems correct, but I'm only comparing it to the Elymais page at Parthia.com......
I'll add one more quote from Hoover's article in CCK and summarize my thoughts on the coin/token debate. I don't see a good reason to discount...
Btw, if you're looking for a very comprehensive and completely free introduction to ancient collecting, try studying Doug Smith's pages at...
Must not have wife that craves expensive stuff even when she's not pregnant.
I'm not in the market for any of these coins at the moment, but I am very interested in the history, as it spills over into the Arabian Peninsula....
Well done, but I'd fill the hole in the 25 centimes piece with the black background.
I'm very interested in this thread, although I won't be able to contribute anything substantial. The Parthians have been on my "to do" list for a...
Now that's a beautiful collection! I didn't realize you had so many. How long have you been at it?
The Antioch mint did a exceptionally fine job with this type. Here is a coin of Constans, where the captive doesn't look like a prisoner at all,...
The idea was that the emperor was dragging the barbarian out of the woods of savagery into the light of civilization. Hypocritical propaganda?...
What I would have liked to have seen is a big, freshly-struck orichalcum sestertius.
I'm cleaning a handful of various Arabian coins, but I bought them individually, "as found" in excavations. I need to see that there's potentially...
Your coin is indeed a Constantinopolis Commemorative, struck under the authority of Constantine I. Here's mine - not the best grade, but I like...
In fact, both Obodas III and Aretas IV had to deal with financial challenges stemming from conflicts with Herod the Great and tributes paid to...
I suspected as much. It seemed like a stretch to assume they were test pieces. Hoover suggests that if they're not test pieces, there can only be...
It's a losing proposition, for me. However, just to pick apart the various arguments, let's start with Schmitt-Korte's contention that when only...
I'll use this thread to post my Nabataean lead tesserae. Some of you that follow my pursuit of these pieces know that I was thwarted the last time...
Thank you for that link! You can't have too many books.
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