That's a really nice early Mansfeld taler.
The Atyuquids of Mardin produced some remarkable dirhems in the 1100s - 1200s. The coinage spanned many themes, including what many numismatists...
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A wonderful coin. That's an interesting reverse. Do you have more information? Thanks
What's better than one Gorgoneion? Well, two, of course. I've always admired the quirky, large cast bronze coins of Olbia, with their wide,...
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Interesting, but also an all too typical situation these past several years. It seems that people with a lot of money, with much tied up in the...
The die break on Lot 55 looks more to me like die rust, especially given its location. It is distracting for such a high-priced coin. These...
Thesus is a main character in A Midsummer Night's dream, as is Hippolyta. I don't have any coins depicting these characters but I'm sure they...
Yes, it definitely was struck at least twice, and the obverse is quite off-center, the reverse less so. Are you happy with the coin? Since it is...
Good question. At the opening of the novel he does cite several sources, starting on page 7. Since it is a novel and not a scholarly work,...
From Robert Graves' Claudius the God. "But the Alexandrians, without asking my permission - and once the thing was done I could not undo it -...
My favorite sonnet: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29) William Shakespeare - 1564-1616 When in disgrace with fortune and...
Timon of Athens (written between 1605 and 1606) [ATTACH] Henry VIII (in collaboration with John Fletcher, 1613) [ATTACH] Juno (The Tempest)...
Nice coins! That's a bygone era, the time of price lists and phoning to reserve coins. Some of the price lists, such as Charlie Wyatt's, were...
We're actually in a "perfect storm" when it comes to shipments from overseas through or via the USPS. We have a pandemic, an economic downturn...
Here's a Mansfeld thaler, 1547, showing St. George standing behind the Mansfeld shield, with the dragon lower left. Quite different, especially...
Here's my Ormonde crown. The Ormonde coinage, was issued between 1643 and 1644 by James Butler, Earl of Ormonde, to pay troops loyal to Charles I...
That's a beautiful coin. I'll post my Ormonde crown tomorrow. While not a siege coin, more of a necessity coin, I guess, it is an important...
Here are a few nice portraits. Nerva, tetradrachm, Antioch [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar, sestertius [ATTACH] Caracalla,...
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