The Gold Tray

My humble gold tray.

Please post your gold...post it in a virtual tray for brownie points.

 

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Lucky, congrats!

 

great lookin' gold tray AN! sweet eastern gold!

butler wimbly, would you be so kind as to bring in my gold coin tray?




oh yeah.

thanks a lot wimbly.

 

Beautiful tray AN! Congrats. Those are great looking coins.

 

I just love the way you present your coins. The virtual tray is definitely "eye popping", to say the least. But, I am too lazy to go about doing something like that , so here is a boring laundry list of some of my gold coins:

Byzantine Empire: John II Comnenus Ducas (1118-1143) AV Hyperpyron, Constantinople Mint (Sear-1938)




Kalachuris of Kalyan: Bijjala Kalachuri (1156-1168 CE) AV pagoda (MCSI-639; Friedberg-325)




Orissa: Bhanudeva III (ca. 1352-1378) AV Fanam (Tandon-3.05)




Kidarite of Jammu & Kashmir: Vinayaditya (late 5th century) debased AV Stater (MACW-3656)




Vijayanagar Empire: Achyutaraya (1529-1542) ½ pagoda (MCSI-673, Ganesh-141)




Vijayanagar Empire: Hari Hara II (1377-1404) AV Half Pagoda (MCSI-412)





Imperial Chola: Raja Raja Chola (985-1014) 2 Fanams (Ganesh-1.8)




Ceylon: Raja Raja Chola (ca. 985-1014) AV Kahavanu (MNI-825)

 

8 wonderful gold pieces. I especially love the pagoda and the kahavanu. Thanks for sharing QG!

 

Awesome!

 

I still have a few others like the Mughal fanams, Ceylon Kahavanus, and a bit of US coins, but my humility prevents me from posting them . Let me know if you want me to post ALL of them...

 

Do you know the % gold of each of these?

 

Sweet gold coins Masternoob..still need to learn how to do the tray thing, i just got the side by side down..

Welcome Q G very nice lookin' Gold...

Have a couple Byzantine Gold..


Gold Fourree' Constantine X


And one from Japan..

 

Nice tray Anoob! When did you get the bottom one, the Muhammad II?

 

End of July/ Beginning of August, something like that.

 

Sorry, no virtual tray.

Great Seljuq gold dinar


Weight 4.71 grams and is about 22 mm in diameter.
When I posted this last year, I got some assistance with the attribution and came up with:

Rukn al-Din Barkiyaruq, AH 468-498 / AD 1093-1105. Album 1682.1

Rob

 

Here's my gold tray


Ancient Mick Jagger. Needs a reshoot; this was taken in dim light, hence the extreme orange color.
Constantine IV Pogonatus, CE 668-685
AV tremissis, 1.4 gm, 17 mm
Constantinople mint
Obv: DN CONSTANTINUS PPAG; Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Rev: VICTORIA AVGUS; cross potent; CONOB
Ref: SB 1161
I'm considering selling this and all or most of my Byzantine coins. I'd rather have more Greeks, early Romans, or Roman provincials.

I have a nice early electrum, a Lydian lion trite, but despite its rather high-karat gold appearance they are reportedly only ~50-60% gold.

I have my bidding eye on a particular Greek gold coin and will pursue it aggressively next month.

 

Like TIF, I only own one gold Ancient:

VALENS
AV Solidus
OBVERSE: DN VALENS PER F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped & cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: RESTITVTOR REIPUBLICAE, Valens standing right, holding labarum in right hand & Victory on globe in left, cross to left. Mintmark star ANTE star
Struck at Antioch, 364 AD
3.6g, 19mm
Antioch RIC 2d,xxxvii-5

 

Super Gold @Ancientnoob . At present, I am on the prowl for Ancient gold. However, as to modern gold... bunches...

 

but its a solidus so its cool Bing.

 

Beautiful coin Bing.

 

Wow, fantastic gold coins guys. AN, that Muhammad II piece is my fav.

 

I am not sure which one I like more. I think my favorite is Vijayabahu.