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<p>[QUOTE="svessien, post: 4595892, member: 15481"]Parthicus and Robinjojo, thanks to both of you.</p><p>I like all the coins you have shown here, and would like to get more types.</p><p>Yours is a very nice example, [USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER]. Beautiful coin. Parthicus is always good at finding interesting types of all obscure kinds, immediately putting a drain on my wallet (you think I can do without a standing caliph now? Forget it. )</p><p>I guess the hard part here will be to learn enough Arabic to be able to identify sub-groups beyond the main type. Tried to use the Album catalog that Pellinore provided now for my Artuquid coin, to find out if it’s Album 1830.4 or 1830.6. He states that «These two types can easily be distinguished, even when date missing, as #1830.4 cites the Ayyubid overlord al-‘Adil Abu Bakr, #1830.6 cites al-Kamil Muhammad.»</p><p>Yeah. If you can read, that is.</p><p>But this is what really makes numismatics worthwhile: Learning new history, new languages, interpreting symbols, and so on. I’ve never been good at it, but I’m quite experienced in doing things I’m not good at.</p><p>Here’s my only other Arab-Byzantine coin. I need to do a cleaning job on it before trying to ID it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1138216[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="svessien, post: 4595892, member: 15481"]Parthicus and Robinjojo, thanks to both of you. I like all the coins you have shown here, and would like to get more types. Yours is a very nice example, [USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER]. Beautiful coin. Parthicus is always good at finding interesting types of all obscure kinds, immediately putting a drain on my wallet (you think I can do without a standing caliph now? Forget it. ) I guess the hard part here will be to learn enough Arabic to be able to identify sub-groups beyond the main type. Tried to use the Album catalog that Pellinore provided now for my Artuquid coin, to find out if it’s Album 1830.4 or 1830.6. He states that «These two types can easily be distinguished, even when date missing, as #1830.4 cites the Ayyubid overlord al-‘Adil Abu Bakr, #1830.6 cites al-Kamil Muhammad.» Yeah. If you can read, that is. But this is what really makes numismatics worthwhile: Learning new history, new languages, interpreting symbols, and so on. I’ve never been good at it, but I’m quite experienced in doing things I’m not good at. Here’s my only other Arab-Byzantine coin. I need to do a cleaning job on it before trying to ID it: [ATTACH=full]1138216[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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