That's a beauty!
Many of the coins posted above are Byzantine anonymous folles. CT has a recent thread on them:...
The OP second coin is Sear Greek 1470 from Tragilos, Macedonia. My coin, not the same, has the reverse lettering T R I A [ATTACH] and is from...
The size of this nose may not be the greatest, but the hook of it may be: [ATTACH] 18 mm. 3.07 grams. IMP NERVA CAES - AVG PM TRPOT II COS III...
I don't belong to ResearchGate where the second paper was linked. But, I found it at Academia.edu, to which I do belong, on this page:...
Thank you for locating those sources. I hope to find time to look at them. Of course, even scholars can only study what comes to light. What...
Why do I think TIF has too much time on her hands? Or, maybe she is just really good with Photoshop and it takes her almost no time to come up...
I won a lot in Yesterday's Leu auction. Today I paid Leu with TransferWise. It was easy. The first time you use TransferWise you have to set up a...
I used to read in the literature that is was a courtyard. If so, it would be a very unusual use of perspective. I have studied the matter and the...
One nice thing about websites is they are easy to change. I added a note about Class A3 as a footnote to the main table of types. I have Metcalf's...
I was reading the 1966-1971 Survey of Numismatic Research and found Grierson's comment on Metcalf's work which included creating a Class A3....
Many ancient-coin educational web sites have links to other educational sites. However, usually many of the links are broken. Some sites have...
What a gorgeous piece! Show that to a civilian and they will be impressed. I am!
Hey Pierre, Your coin has nothing to do with Menander. I have Price's book and identify it as Price 2571 from Sardes (with a "rose" below the...
I suppose it does for modern coins you don't want to touch. But, those of us who collect ancient coins and want to fondle them would find it hard...
Good question. I just skimmed through Melville-Jones's Testimonia Numaria of original ancient Greek writings about coins and saw the term "obol"...
How much does it weigh? The weights of hemiobols (1/2 obol), obols, tritetartemorions (3/4 obol), trihemiobols (3/2 obol), diobols (2 obols) and...
Metcalf introduced it in 1970 in Metcalf, D. M. "Interpretation of the Byzantine Rex Regnantium folles of Class A" in Numismatic Chronicle 1970,...
Some beginners want to know more about ancient coins in general. Some have specific questions they ask on CT. CT is a good place to learn. Many of...
@Roman Collector , I appreciate your link https://www.cointalk.com/threads/herennia-etruscilla-bust-styles-and-mints-its-confusing-indeed.308030/...
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