Control mark.
Nice grab! That is one of the few New World issues that I'd really want to collect.
Do it without your parents' permission. Stick it to the man. :-P
Nice that it is online, but holy hell - almost 2500 pages of 10 items each?! That is some poor design there, and it renders the collection almost...
Not quite. This is a rechenpfennig, or jeton, that was made in Nuremburg by Ch. Lauer. The Lauer family produced hundreds of varieties of these...
Update : BI Denaro of Federico II of the Kingdom of Sicily, struck at Brindisi circa 1249
Probably Federico I or II ruling the Kingdom of Sicily.
Trajan Decius. The SC on this does not stand for Senatus Consulto, but I can't remember off the top of my head.
Not Alexander! Antioch in Syria.
The second one is certainly Japanese and likely from Edo, but I won't have access to any references for a little while. To anyone who is...
Hook me up too! :D
I thought the same. Your best bet would probably be with the Elis stater or the Naxos hemidrachm. If there's a die corpus, you might be able to...
Funny enough, I was about to compliment him on that! :D
Very nice Domna issues. Those are difficult to find.
I will have to get myself a copy of this Wicks reference to which you refer. It sounds like it does an excellent job of incorporating the...
It's stored in my "external memory." I know where to LOOK for it - that's good enough for something as seldom-seen as this!
If you expect me to get up off my butt and find my copy of Mitchiner, you are sorely mistaken. :D
I believe he was in the process of working it out with the various firms.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/One-of-the-worlds-top-collectors-Sheikh-AlThani-dies-suddenly-aged--/36262
The most I'd get is a laurel and hearty handshake. [MEDIA] Nine times out of ten, it's the consignor insisting on a higher estimate than the lot...
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