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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2034627, member: 42634&quot;]picked up a couple of budget medieval coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; i&#039;m not familiar with this coin, just picked it up for dirt cheap so didn&#039;t ask any questions until i got it. i&#039;m not absolutely certain of my attribution. also, i got the obverse and reverse mixed up.&nbsp; the obverse is right, and the reverse is left.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/102_5459_zpsd61083e1.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/102_5459_zpsd61083e1.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/misc%20ancients%20and%20medieval%20coins/102_5459_zpsd61083e1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>holy roman empire</p><p>archbishopric of salzburg</p><p>eberhard II of regensberg</p><p>1200 - 1246 AD</p><p>ar pfennig</p><p>o: bishop with crosier</p><p>r: bishop between crosses</p><p>19 mm</p><p>1.2g</p><p><br /></p><p>here&#039;s one i found on asearch.&nbsp; also note the flattened scraped areas occurring at right angles&nbsp; like on my coin my coin.&nbsp; any one know why these are on some of these coins?&nbsp; weight adjustment?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]370654[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>i&#039;ve been wanting to pick up an islamic coin, the text is pretty as usual, but this one also has some neat geometric patterns.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/eastern%20coins/102_5499_zps1ab9a0f6.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/eastern%20coins/102_5499_zps1ab9a0f6.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/eastern%20coins/102_5499_zps1ab9a0f6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>qarakhanid (karakhanid) AE broad dirham</p><p>ahmad b. ibrahim (jalal al din qadir khan)</p><p>1178-1210 AD</p><p>33 mm</p><p>4.1 g</p><p><br /></p><p>this coin is much larger than i expected from the sellers photo, and&nbsp; pretty thin. kind of reminds my of a sassanian coin in that regard.</p><p><br /></p><p>the qarakhanids were a turkic people that controlled a chunck of central asia at the time...included bukhara, what used to be sogdian territory and such.&nbsp; this coin was about the end of the line for the qarakhanids, they were dismantled by a persian groupknown as the khwarezmid ...and then shortly thereafter good ol&#039; genghis khan rolled them all up, if i&#039;m understanding all this correctly.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara-Khanid_Khanate" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara-Khanid_Khanate" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara-Khanid_Khanate</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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