A nice group @Cucumbor , hard for me to pick a favorite but if forced to do so, I'd go with the Bosporus stater. I've long considered the coinage...
A killer bear and a murder plot... sounds like a movie I'd want to see. I did a quick search of IMDB, found a few movies that are about killer...
I concur with @John Anthony 's ID to Edessa. And, just because the thread title made me think of this song and it makes me happy: [MEDIA]
I'm still feasting on Thanksgiving leftovers, but here on the Coin Talk Ancients board it's already time for our annual Top 10 lists. While I...
Just last week at the Baltimore coin show, I picked up these two for exactly $25 each: silver drachm of Sasanian Persia, Khusro II (590-628 AD)...
I attended the Baltimore Whitman Coin Expo today (Friday, November 19, 2021) and was on the bourse continuously from about 10:30 AM to a bit past...
Yeah, I can sort of see why you think Spain. The portrait style in the second photo (obverse) does remind me of the style used in Celt-Iberian...
Coin #17 is a drachm from the Sasanian Persian kingdom, Khusro II (590- 628 AD). Mintmark is WYHC (uncertain site in either Far or Central Iraq),...
I concur with @THCoins on his reading of the obverse, and that this is a modern token. Not sure what is being depicted on the reverse, though.
I recently bought a Bolivian coin from 1830, and researching it led to a question. Some sources list the Bolivian silver denomination in 1830 as...
[ATTACH] Afrighids. AR drachm (1.73 g). No mint or date. Shah Askaswar II(?) aka Azkajwar-Abdallah, with vizier Dhu'l-Ri'asatayn (c.812-821...
Definitely ancient Spain, c. 204-154 BC, but I don't think it's Ilerda- the inscription is wrong. (A number of cities issued coins with this same...
Kazakhstan (home of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, launch site for Soviet/Russian space exploration) has issued a series of commemoratives honoring some...
@TIF : Wow, that display of coins based on Pink Floyd's "Animals" is impressive. Now, if you can do "Ummagumma", including the song "Several...
Looks like a "barbarous radiate" (search that term for more info). Interesting, I have no idea what that thing on the reverse is even supposed to be.
Khusro II (590-628 AD). This looks like his earlier, more slender portrait style, but a typical weak strike that makes the date and mintmark on...
[ATTACH] Arab-Sasanian (Umayyad Caliphate). Probably Bishapur or Istakhr mint. AE pashiz (0.44 g, 15 mm). No date or mint on coin. Obverse:...
Actually, yeah, I kind of see that, too. They're even up on a little stage, and they're both wearing short skirts... Anyway, since you asked,...
My unpopular opinions: -Non-pictorial series (e.g. Chinese, most Islamic) are just as cool, historically interesting, and often even just as...
You only say that because our first president was a cow!
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