I love those things...I'm trying to accumulate a few. Here are some reverses.
This is a coin I need to take out and admire more often. Seem to remember that it is Varhran V. I could never figure out the nature of the...
Love all these wonderful examples. Such an interesting area of collecting.
Wow!! With legend and mintmark...beauty.
I like these mysterious little things, even the crude ones.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
What a spectacular thread. These little coins are tremendously interesting. I get super excited even to find a Marcian.
One of my coins looked a lot like one in the Foss catalogue of Arab-Byzantine coins.[ATTACH]
That is most interesting. Wonderful coin.
Thanks Black Friar! So pleased there are other Arab Byzantine coin enthusiasts around. I can't afford the fancier hardcover books, but I have...
chrsmat71, yes. Sometimes one of the Zeiss Ikon types, but in this case it is likely I used a Voigtlaender Bergheil with a Compur shutter and a...
Apparently these aren't particularly common. I got 2 from uncleaned lots, and photographed them with one of those old 1930s German...
That's a thing of beauty, that catalog.
I believe the first is a Heraclius countermark from mid-630s corresponding roughly to the time of Arab invasions in Syria. It is a recorded...
[ATTACH] An even bigger countermark on another Heraclius, purchased in a small town shop in Ontario.
Very pleased to find this countermark on the reverse when I cleaned the coin. I suppose it is a coin of Heraclius.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Between those 2 insightful posts, I think the coin is identified. Thanks for such strong evidence, friends. (I'm very pleased to be able to...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Legend might indicate Theodosius II, but the monogram is strange to me. Got a "bowtie" at the top (probably...
More Arab Byzantine fun...an excerpt from the Foss catalogue, and one of my coins that is similar. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Oh, that's a beauty. I would have guessed that's a legit Byzantine issue.
Can't find a photo of the crude, early Arab-Byzantine Constans II, but found my catalogue drawing from a couple years ago. Heraclius/Cyprus...
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