Hello everyone I found some new great coins at the auction saturday in Florida. 1 is a Roman Bizentine Khusroe 1 Ramson silver coin dated 500 to 520 AD and also 2 coins that are Roman Gallienus silver wash dated 250 AD and 2 Greek coins 1 is a silver coin with a man on a horse dated 100 BC and the other is a Greek Goddess Athena coin it has a bull on the rev dated 167 BC it is made of bronze but still in good shape. The pictures are ok but I don't want to remove them from the coin holders to take pictures so take a look and let me know what you think. Will add more pictures later, can only load 5 at a time. Thanks itsallngoodtime Bob
Thanks I'm having trouble finding anything about the, sorry should have looked it up before spelling it wrong it should have been Khusrau 1 coin. When I looked it up it said that Khusrau 1 was 531 A.D. to 579 do you have any information about this coin or know someone to contact. Thanks itsallngoodtime Bob
The coin is Sasanian. A reference worth checking for this and all old Eastern coins: http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/sasania/sas_khuI_1.html Sasanians are often placeable to year date and mint if you learn to read their script on the reverse (date left, mint right). I am at the point that I can attribute some by comparing to the charts but there is no way I read it outright. I did not double check that I agree this is a Khusro I and I'm no better at reading the obverses than the reverses. To make it worse, Sasanian silvers are so thin that many are not fully struck up allowing reading the legends. They are interesting and not terribly expensive but no one said they are easy.
...also Don't get too worried about spelling Sassanian names. We see several transliterations of the same name and there really is no 'right' way to spell them in English. Xusrau and Khosrau are both the same guy. For that matter, there is no consistency on how many s's are in Sas(s)anian. The most common Sasanian coins are Khusro II (grandson of I) who also is a major player in history.
Thanks and your right it is hard! and most of the time someone else has already spelled it wrong when you buy it, but when you google it you usually find the right spelling. I find that most people have trouble getting the date right but thats part of the fun of these old coins is the research. Thanks itsallngoodtime Bob
These are good pages: http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/sasania/sas_mint/sas_mint_table.html http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/sasania/sas_mint/dp/sas_date_table.html http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/sasania/sas_mint/sas_kingnames.html The last should blow your mind. He shows 12 different references and how they spell each name. He also shows the direct transliteration of the letters as found on coins. Would you rather we called him hwsrwd' or hwsrwb'?
