"Follow The Leader" coin thread BY THEME (for ALL types of coins, tokens, and medals)

One of my roughest coins, 1788 Barbadoes pineapple penny

 

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Well worn Windward Island - Isles Du Vent 12 sols, 1731

 

Like many of my old Portuguese India AE coins, this one is well worn. It has been labeled as "17x8" for a long time, however today I look at it again and begin to think it might be 1718. The design resembles some coins of João V, 1706-1750. Weight 9.12 grams and diameter of 23mm should make it an atiya. Any opinions as to what the date is?

 

I have a thing for these crude Mexico Copper 8 Reales

 

This may not have a lot of wear despite the look. I think it could be called "rough". These were very crude.

Uighuristan 10 cash, 1933

 

Funny, I tried to compare to examples on Zeno and found what almost appears as a die match (#243124) and they also list the date as 17x8.

 

Uh, that's me, same coin.

 

I'd vote 1778

 

Stephen Penny S1278:

This was struck during the period of English history known as "The Anarchy" when King Stephen and Empress Matilda were vying for the throne after Henry I died. Brutal times and I suspect the coin was very little better even when first struck.

 

I'll tell you a secret (Ssssh...!). There is a thread like this on the Ancients Forum, that has been going on for three years. The rules are a bit different, as stated by @Collect89 in July, 2017:

If you can post an item depicting the current theme, then you get to post a second item of your own to start a new theme. Post your coin & state the theme that goes along with your coin. The theme might be coins with owls, coins with COS II, or coins with severed heads. Anything goes (coin, token, medal, artifact, etc) but we should keep it to something ancient. The next poster then posts something containing that theme & then posts/declares some new theme.

You see mainly Roman and Greek coins there, no medievals, like this worn but interesting coin:



AE fals Tahirids. Talha b. Tahir (822-828), mint Bust in Southern Afghanistan. Obv. Rough Sasanian head t.r. in a circle, surrounded by unreadable text. Rev. Arabic text (kalima). 18 mm, 2.00 gr. Album 1394. RR.

This is the last example of a Sasanian coin type in Islamic coinage. Zeno 148375.

 

Here is one I have named as 1778. Now I look at it more and it looks like 1748.

 

Byzantine Empire
AV Hyperper ND Constantinople Mint
Andronicus II 1304-28
Crude Strike
NGC MS-4/5 4/4

 

A worn Great Britain Florin, 1884

 

GB half penny, George III, Type I, 1770-1775. So worn that date is gone.

 

Horrendously scratched and bitten by a mouse with steely jaws, however...
a rare Qarakhanid coin, Islamic but depicting a dog or lion broken loose from its chains. AD 1101. Issued by a rebel ruler who tried to win the throne, but in AD 1102 was ambushed and killed. RIP.



AE fals Qarakhanids, Jabrail b. Umar b. Yusuf, Bukhara 494 AH = 1101 AD. Obv. lion on a chain. Rev. triangle with hollow sides. 25 mm, 3.47 gr. Kochnev 1346. Zeno #112001.

 

Another rough Chagatayid coin

Chagatai Khanate - Tarmashirin Khan, AH731

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarmashirin

 

Slightly worn, AH1115/1704 Ottoman AE, Ahmed III, Tarabulus Gharb, a freebie from PaddyB

 

Anushteginid, Khwarizm 603 AH, Muhammad b. Tekesh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_II_of_Khwarazm

 

Here is my beaten Cartwheel penny.

Great Britain
1797 CE
1 Penny
Issued under George III​

 

A rough Sinkiang 10 Cash, AH1332 1913