Great article and beautiful coins. :)
An excellent book on the subject of Islamic coins is Richard Plant's book Arabic Coins and How To Read Them (Spink and Son Ltd, 1980). I bought a...
As far as I can determine this is what the Arabic/Persian script on the coin is: The obverse field is: دار العبادة Dar al-ibadat (Abode of...
I bought several Islamic and Mughal coins recently and spent some time attempting to read the Arabic text on them with the help of Richard Plant's...
[IMG] Abbasid Dinar Harun al-Rashid Baghdad AD 802 (AH 186) Gold, 18.5 mm, 4.02 gm Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid AD 786-809 (AH 170-193) Mint:...
Forrest Fenn is back. :)
Wear goggles or eye protection whichever method you use. The plastic parts like to fly around. :)
And here's an Octopus: [IMG] Syracuse Sicily Bronze Tetras Octopus Bronze, 15.4 mm, 3.84 gm, Catalog: SNG Cop 653 Struck: BC 425-420 Syracuse...
Two India Mughal coins of Muhammad Shah AH 1131-1161 (AD 1719-1748): Muḥammad Shah was the Mughal Emperor from 1719 to 1748. He ascended the...
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Beautiful Byzantine coin! :)
These four British fractional farthings are from the "Brondesbury Park Collection": [IMG] Great Britain fractional farthing - 1/2 farthing 1844...
This advertisement for A&P Coffee appeared in the January 20, 1947 issue of Life Magazine: [IMG] A&P Coffee advertisement One way to save money!...
Two Byzantine Justinian coins from Constantinople: [IMG] Justinian AE Follis Bronze, 30 mm, 17.98 gm, Struck: AD 527-538, Sear 158 Obverse:...
johnmilton, thank you for the information. Leno LaBianca's 1909-S Indian Head cent is still out there. :)
The NBA (National Basketball Association) is going to play the rest of it's season games at Disneyland. :)
I wonder what the 1968 or 1969 values are for a 1909-S Indian Head cent. Leno LaBianca, the coin collector who was murdered in 1969, had one,...
It is a generic token and would probably be impossible to identify the manufacturer or issuer. :)
The most amazing thing about the Sheldon photographs story is that the college students meekly followed orders to take their clothes off and pose...
Mughal India: [IMG] Mughal India Rupee - Shah Jahan - Agra - AH 1038 (AD 1628) Silver, 22 mm, 10:47 gm, KM 222.1 Mint: Agra Obverse: Four...
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