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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2007861, member: 19463&quot;]Completing my pickups from the Richmond show are three lesser coins.&nbsp; Oldest is a 138 BC Republican with Roma and the common reverse of the Dioscuri.&nbsp; What attracted me to the coin was the old letter form of P open at the bottom so it is really half way between the Greek pi and the Latin P.&nbsp; The coin was issued by Publius Aelius Paetus so we get two good P examples.&nbsp; The coin was made cheaper by the retained encrustations on both sides which show worse in my photo than in hand.[ATTACH=full]361132[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The other two are medieval deniers of the Crusaders.&nbsp; Common and popular is Bohemund III of Antioch 1163-1201 AD famous for the absolute worst portrait style of a knight in helmet facing left.&nbsp; The legends are readable (BOAMVNDVS/ANTIO CIVITA)&nbsp; if you know what they are to start with but not so much otherwise.&nbsp; This coin shows a knight in shining armor but I assume he had his visor down since it is really hard to find anything you might call a face.&nbsp; There are some better and some worse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361133[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally is a denier of Duke Guy II of Athens 1294-1308 AD.&nbsp; In this case I&#039;m calling the cross side the obverse since that side has the royal name (GVI DVX ATENOS).&nbsp; The reverse has the mint of Thebes (ThEBAN CIVES) around a castle tournois which is seriously compromised by the thin flan having given all its metal to the cross so you can see a negative image of the cross x-ing out the castle.&nbsp; On the other side, between the arms of the cross you see elements of the castle.&nbsp; Both of these coins were thin and, interestingly to me, both weight exactly 0.76g.&nbsp; Guy&#039;s coin really suffered from the ghosting making it a fine example of not so fine work.&nbsp; The coin is a thousand years after what we call late Romans and almost two thousand years after the start of coinage in Athens.&nbsp;&nbsp; Progress?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361134[/ATTACH] </p><p>As medievals go, these are pretty easy to read.&nbsp; That may be why I have so few European medieval coins.&nbsp; Both are common coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Before I went to the show, I had ordered by mail a coin I liked better than these but the post office is not as good for instant gratification as shows so I&#039;m hoping it will arrive tomorrow (or at least I&#039;m hoping it will arrive someday).&nbsp; That is another thing I like about shows.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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