@Ken Dorney: Is that Tiberius on your Spanish coin, or is that the Penguin from Batman? ;)
[ATTACH] India, 2015, 10 rupees. Circulating commemorative for the International Day of Yoga.
After careful review, I think you are right. The letter in question shows no sign of the right side of the letter that should be present for a...
Another cool coin from Frank Robinson's auction (he should start paying me for all the publicity I've been giving him lately): [ATTACH] Parthian...
Thanks @Bob L. for covering this while I was still asleep. I don't usually bother writing out the standard legend when I post a Parthian coin,...
[ATTACH] Lithuania, 1936, 1 centas.
[ATTACH] Artuqids of Mardin. AE dirham. Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan (1201-1239 AD). Album 1830.7, Spengler/Sayles 43. $80 at the Baltimore coin...
Another recent win from Frank Robinson: [ATTACH] Parthian Kingdom, Seleucia-on-Tigris mint. AR tetradrachm. Vardanes II (55-58 AD), dated 368...
Michael Grant wrote a number of books about various aspects of Roman culture and history, and they are written for a general audience, so they are...
Thanks for the comments, everyone! For Khusro I, yes, his portrait tends to show him with a very tall, thin head. Some other Sasanian kings...
Here's another of my recent wins from Frank Robinson: [ATTACH] Sasanian Kingdom. AR drachm. Khusro I (531-579 AD), regnal year 30. Darabgird...
I have both of the more common designs of Persian sigloi, the "king with bow and spear" and the "king with bow and dagger": [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I did pretty well in Frank Robinson's latest auction and thought I'd show off my latest acquisitions. First off is this didrachm of Tyre:...
Nice pickup, Doug! I have an example of that type: [ATTACH] As far as I know all of the Tabaristan coinage has the mint name of TAPWRSTAN, and...
Cool! I have various Persis coins that I never got around to photographing, but here's one I did: a bronze of the last king of Persis, Ardashir...
Hard to pick just one, but my favorite coin (that I own) is probably this silver tetradrachm of the Parthian king Artabanos II (10-38 AD), struck...
A little Googling turned up this from the Missouri Journal of Numismatics:...
Some people call him a space cowboy Some call him the gangster of love Some people call him Maurice Tiberius... The only Byzantine photo I have...
Thought I'd share one more coin that I bought recently from Ancient Imports (before I receive my wins from Frank Robinson's latest auction):...
I've got a couple of sestertii of M. Aurelius, one commemorating his victory over the Parthians and one calling him the Restorer of Italy:...
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