I just won this fun little curiosity from Aureo & Calico. It’s described as a fractional dinar, with barbarous quasi-Arabic legends, apparently...
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220426-battle-of-the-aegates-the-shipwrecks-rewriting-roman-history I don't have any coins relating to the...
During the couple of weeks leading up to the Russian invasion, I was looking at this, from a Ukrainian detectorist who's been listing on US ebay....
Here’s one I landed recently. [ATTACH] Charles III, the Simple, King of the West Franks 898-923. Denier of Melle. Visibly of fine silver...
I'm getting deeper and deeper into Sasanian drahms (/drachms /proto dirhams). Here are the two latest acquisitions. Right, while trying, very...
[ATTACH] Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark c. 958-986. AR ‘half-bracteate’ /penning, likely c.975-980 or later. The weight is only .34 grams;...
[NOTE TO SELF: UPLOAD THAT BAD MONKEY] [ATTACH] Sihtric /Siggtryggr Silkbeard /Silkiskeggi, Hiberno-Norse king of Dublin. AR penny, imitating...
...No, nothing dramatic, at least in terms of the price. But, with ongoing thanks to everyone here who's talked up Marc Breitsprecher on VCoins,...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] AEthelred II, Helmet penny of (?) Cambridge, c. 1003-1009. Obv. AEthelred to left, 'in armour and radiate helmet' (quoting...
It was time to do this. ...Mine was also the only bid on the lot. [ATTACH] Carolingian /Robertian France. Raoul, 923-936. Denier of Paris....
...Yep, the truth is that both spellings are used, in English, by academics. Since they're transliterations anyway, it's like, whatever feels...
This OP is long overdue (...well, along with another one that got long enough --with footnotes and bibliography-- to get really scary). But...
(The earlier thread that I started on harness pendants might be of help with the background:...
First, if you haven't yet, you should look at what's only the latest thread here on Roman camp gates:...
[ATTACH] The German empire, c. 919-1125, with Saxony to the north. From Shepherd, Historical Atlas (1925), via Wikimedia Commons. In the later...
What nudged me to start this was revisiting a suggestion by @TheRed, in a thread where it obviously (and consensually) didn't belong. To quote...
This guy has uploaded several of these on academia.edu; this is the latest one to show up on the radar. Having never seen a reference in print...
Ran into this, from the CBC....
@FitzNigel, along with other justly esteemed members of the forum, has recently posted a typically erudite and illuminating article and thread on...
Déols is fun for having been a barony, or seigneurie, which issued its own coins, routinely in the seigneur’s name, from the 11th into the earlier...
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