Saturday Night Free For All

Of course!

Details for the first one:
Cologne, City, BI heller ("Möhrchen"), ca. 1676–1677 AD. Obv: three crowns (arms of Cologne) above line and tendril. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 11mm, 0.15g. Ref: Noss 486.

For the second one:
Kamenz, City, CU "Kipperpfennig", 1622 AD. Obv: eagle's wing with clover, value number "I". Rev: negative design (bracteate). 12mm, 0.16g. Ref: Slg. Merseburger 2753; Rahnenführer/Krug 271.

Both coins are very late for bracteate issues; indeed they constitute some of the latest coins in the bracteate tradition. (I have posted a number of earlier examples and a write-up here.) Especially the Kamenz pfennig is interesting since it attests to the "Kipper- und Wipperzeit," a period of financial crisis during the early years of the Thirty Years War. Originally silver or billon pennies were often debased to copper during that time.

 

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I just posted this coin today as a thread on the World Coins Forum, for those who might be interested.

 

How many do you have of Faustina II?

 

Only 107.

 

Do you have any idea how many there are altogether?

 

With provincials, at least a thousand.

 

YOUR WIFE IS DEFINETLY NOT JEALOUS...

 

90 year old glass looks pretty impressive. Inevitably I want to try to guess who's bulbous nose and furrowed brow that is? Caracalla?
Of course a game of "find the hair" can be entertaining...

 

I am concerned about your lust for female inanimate objects...

We need to talk...

 

Not sure how to say it, but...

I cheated on my ancient coins to go back to my first serious fling - Japanese coins and notes

Hansatsu, Tokugawa era local scrip, printed on card stock, and addictively cheap and intriguing

Obama-han, 1798, note for a measure of rice


Haven't been able to figure out the province, but good for one monme silver, dated 1777

 

I like the second photo.

The shading give the coin's elements more depth. It also makes for a more dramatic presentation.

 

Great question. There’s a broken flan, but the reverse is pretty too

 

To me, the natural is probably closer to in-hand, and the LED is what I’d consider a “True view” style glamour shot

 

This week got a Carausius from the old CGB stock, a really ugly coin that's somehow adorable:


AE18mm billon antoninian/aurelian irregular mint in Britain, ca. 286.
IMP CARAVSI[VS AVG]; radiate, cuirassed and draped bust right, seen three quarters from front
[P]A -X AV[G]; Pax to left, holding a laurel branch in right hand and a vertical scepter in left hand;
RIC V 881

Notes: This specimen is part of an early series of irregular and rather peculiar style of radiate coppers, being of a semi-barbarous appearance. Different propositions were added about the whereabouts of the mint issuing these, some considering it a continental issue, perhaps similar to the one minting the semi-barbarous coinage of the Tetrici in the 270s. Another and more favored opinion is that the mint was in Britain.

Similar specimen, here. More about the coinage of Carausius, here.


I never thought I'd become interested in the British breakaway empire but I think I just did.

 

...now imma have to listen to one o muy favorite tunes...

 

Jamesicus, I So Resonate with your appreciation of this (sustained, but...) moment in Roman coin lettering. The legends look as if they were lifted directly from contemporaneous monument inscriptions.

 

Cool article, Robinjojo. Thanks for posting the link!

 

Very cool, Orielensis. I had exactly no idea that bracteates were still being issued that late. ...Wow. Thirty Years' War. Quite a stretch (mentally, for one) from the 12th century!

 

Very, Very Cool, Finn235. Alan DeShazo, a published numismatist (The Celator, for one) and linguistic polymath, turned me on to Japanese prints, from Hokusai to early Manga (yes, before comic books). Especially with that as context, those are brilliant.

 

Marcus says it's hip to be square!



Here's a smooth sestertius on a Saturday night.

Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-180.
Roman orichalcum sestertius, 24.15 g, 31.0 mm, 11 h.
Rome, AD 166-167.
Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG ARM PARTH MAX, laureate head, right.
Rev: TR POT XXI IMP IIII COS III S C, Victory standing left, holding wreath and palm frond.
Refs: RIC 948; BMCRE 1318-20; Cohen 815; RCV 5011; MIR 151.