Very nice write up on Probus! Here is one of my coins... Roman Imperial: Probus (276-282 CE) AR Antoninianus, Serdica (RIC V 862) Obv: IMP C M...
That is definitely a nice one! Here is mine with full attribution: Cilician Armenia: Hetoum I (1226-1270) AR Tram (Nercessian-332) Obv: Lion...
Epigraphy is a hobby of mine as well and yes, the similarities between scripts is crazy at times. Unicode has helped immensely in this area! As...
Thanks! Even though I can't read, write, or speak Arabic, a lot of others can and the books I have aided me in the transcriptions. Its hard to...
These use to be scare/rare depending on who you ask, but an extremely large hoard was found and thus are extremely cheap now: Kakwayhid:...
It always depends on two things: 1) The Gold content 2) Supply/Demand So, there are a lot of gold coins out there where it costs less than...
The Shekels of Tyre supplement to Cohen's book is available for free download (at over 500 pages!):...
Here is one, similar to yours from my collection to give you some idea on coin orientation and possible legends: Abbasid Governors, Mesopotamia:...
There were several sizes depending on the coin. I was unsuccessful on the following lot a few days ago, but I wasn't really trying hard either....
There are two really nice books on calendars and coins, including Gregorian-type dated coins: The Early Dated Coins of Europe, 1234-1500, 2nd...
Definitely like the rendition! And @robinjojo is right, too much orange in that second picture. It hurts your eyes a bit. If you go to...
That is a lovely coin! I have posted some of my Pandyan coins on WoC before, but not here. I haven't photographed a lot of my coins yet, but...
That is what I thought. You are referring to the Pandyan Civil War and generalizing it. That was very unique instance and resulted in the fall...
The Cholas did issue gold coins in native India and some of those coins are not that scarce or rare. There are some gold coins that are next to...
This lead coin is fairly scarce, but its in shambles :(. I bought it this way, but its very fragile... Sodasa: Anonymous (1st century CE) Pb...
And another one: Kakwayhid: Faramurz (433-443AH/1041-1051AD) AV Dinar, Isbahan, 435AH (Walker-1656; Album-1592) Obv: لا اله الا الله وحده لا...
I like spending time transcribing coins and Islamic coins have always been challenging since I can't read Arabic. I usually pour hours using...
There are two references I use that are both free: Corpus Nummorum Italicorum, Volume VII at...
As some of you have already posted, the Venetian Grosso was the model for several coins in Eastern Christendom, including the following coins:...
Steve Album (https://db.stevealbum.com/php/home.php) is good for these types of coins and I would also approach some of the Zeno.ru posters. They...
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