December 6th is St. Nicholas’ day. Today, the saint is most closely associated as the inspiration for Santa Claus, as the original saint was...
This small currency of the County of Tripoli was used towards the end of Christian rule on the mainland coast of the Eastern Levant. It is...
Here is my latest acquisition, a very desirable medieval bracteate. On the one hand and mostly because of the historical importance of this abbey,...
I’ve seen some weekly themed posts lately, and I thought it might be nice to have a general medieval pile-on thread! Feel free to post any...
This is purportedly a Norman imitation of Byzantine prototypes, during the earlier phases of the invasion and occupation of southern Italy....
Here's a fun one, if you like this sort of thing. Robert II, ‘le Jeune,’ Comte de Dreux 1188-1218. AR denier parisis of Dreux. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
The latest larger addition to my collection is something you don’t see everyday here on CoinTalk: a medieval gigliato struck by the Knights...
A few years ago, a dealer at a coin show showed me an absolutely gorgeous Mezzanino Nuovo minted during the years of Doge Andrea Dandolo (r....
I’m rather excited by my recent acquisition, as I have been searching for a Scandinavian imitation of an English penny for some time now:...
I deal with a lot of late medieval Spanish coins. I came across this with a large lot of Spanish coins. I believe that it is dated 1654, but that...
It has widely been acknowledged that the first coin issued by the Normans in Normandy was a denier by William Longsword which featured a cross...
Hi everyone, I recently acquired a small lot of "Octopus man" coins from the Chola dynasty of Southern India and Sri Lanka. These coins were first...
The below article originally appeared in Koinon: The International Journal of Classical Numismatics, Volume I. I have been assured by @Nicholas...
A recent acquisition of mine is by no means the prettiest of coins, but it does have an interesting story behind who has owned it. The coin is a...
Well, the following post will feel a little out of season, but that’s because I intended to post it in December and never got around to it....
Here is my first 2020 purchase. Excited to have it arrive! [IMG]
Does anyone have any recommendations for auction sites for medieval coins? Preferably High Medieval, though I am interested in early as well.
I am looking into the coins found at the Sutton Hoo burial and found this peculiar one. It is a Merovingian copy of a coin with a byzantine (or...
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