I found this coin in an auction and I dont intend to buy it at all. But I want to hear your opinion: [ATTACH] It has the "soap"-style and it...
[ATTACH] Anonymous, time of Justinian I, 527-565. Third Siliqua (Silver, 13.94 mm, 0.87 g). Constantinopolis. Personified bust of...
I try to have a clear picture in my head, and I just need to be sure that I've understood it correct. Question 1: Constantius II (died 361)...
[ATTACH] Description Alexius I Comnenus (1081 – 1118, with colleagues from 1092). Æ Trachy (25,2mm, 2.8g). Christ enthroned facing, with crossed...
The two coins here below are attributed as from Byzantine Empire, but I've never seen them before: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Are they anonymous folles...
Hey I’m really thinking of purchasing three incestuous coins of Ptolemaic Kingdom. The two coins beneath here are attributed as Ptolemy II...
Cast fakes. Struck fakes. Transfer die fakes. Looking at an image of a coin is not always enough to detect a forgery, and often you need access...
[ATTACH] (From: https://www.biddr.com/auctions/leu/browse?a=4129&l=4878718) Do you think this coin is tooled? Look at his hair with strips. I...
Hey - I just need some advices. Recently I won some lots from N&N London in biddr.com. And I tried to transfer the money. But my bank is saying...
Hey As you know most copper coins in Antique and Middle Ages were made of copper. Copper is brown in color, but when it reacts with oxygen it...
Southern part of the Italian Peninsula has been under East Romans' rule since the day of Justinian (500’s) until 1000’s. In 1025 this was the...
Hi I asked a similar question for some time ago, and the answer was that the largest group of coins that circulated in Levant in 500s were...
The price of diamond has crashed for an obvious reason:...
Hey! I have one simple question: Did Romans and Greeks use monogram (in their coinage or rings) before 300s? Here is monogram of Justin II...
[ATTACH] Could it be this?: https://coins.labarum.info/en/catalog/1104?cid=6861 I wished that David Sear in his “Byzantine Coins and Their...
Hi I just want to hear your opinion regarding a weird attribution from a vcoin-store. This coin here is attributed as an Arab-Byzantine: From:...
There are some coins on auction which have been attributed as Theodosius II: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I just want to ask any members with knowledge:...
Do we know what sort of (copper) coins circulated in Ostrogothic Kingdom (493 to 553) and Vandal Kingdom (435 to 534)? Did Byzantine coins minted...
As you probably know Byzantine coinage is a mix of Latin and Greek elements. The big coins minted in 500s always have officina mint in alphabet...
President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 signed Executive Order 6102, which forbade ownership of gold. It was illegal to own gold as I understand it....
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