Topcat7

9 hours ago, Simon said:

 

I would say your coin is SBCV-1980 Manuel, the main reason is the attire of the emperor. I cannot tell what type of shield your coin has. 
 

 

You agree with me, then. Thank you, Simon. I appreciate your input.

I purchased this (Byzantine) coin as John II, but the more I look at it, I am not sure. It could be Manuel I, (or someone else).

(Possibly SB 1980.)

Can anyone put me on the right road, please? AE15.7mm., 1.16gm.

38 minutes ago, LONGINUS said:

It could be held up in the mail, @Topcat7. 

 

 

 

International mail carriers can be very frustrating to work with.

 

 

I accept that, and I did leave complaining until a long time after the longest anticipated delivery date had passed because of mail 'difficulties'.

In this case it was a 'local' seller, (not International).

From an eBay auction, I recently purchased a Siliqua of Theodosius; - sellers description

Siliqua, Trier, 378-83 Theodo-sivs. Pearl diademed. draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev. virtvs ro-manorvm, roma enthroned, holding globe and spear.  1.59g. bought at Auctions in UK

The seller started the bidding at US$80 which I agreed to open the bidding at. There were no further bids and I won the auction. I paid for my purchase (including the freight), and the seller marked it as 'sent' (but did not provide a 'Tracking Number').

Needless to say it never arrived and the seller wouldn't answer emails so I claimed through eBay who promptly (within 24 hours) refunded my payment in full.

The seller gccollective-trade has some reasonably high priced coins and I can only surmise that the bidding didn't go high enough for him to let the coin go.

Have others had a similar experience?

Recently I found that all of my 'Parthian' coins were actually Elemais (under the rule of Parthia) so I bought my first 'real'  Parthian coin.

147-191 A.D. KINGS OF PARTHIA. Vologases IV.  Dichalkon (Bronze, 15.4 mm, 3.77 g, ), Seleukeia on the Tigris, SE 475 = 163/4.

Obv: Diademed bust of Vologases IV to left, wearing tiara; to left, EOY.

Rev. Draped and turreted bust of Tyche to right; to right, 'A'.

Sellwood 84.144. Shore 632. 

Circa 168-167 B.C. MACEDON, Amphipolis, under Roman Rule. Time of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Æ21.6. (Gaius Puplilius, quaestor), .

Obv: Helmeted head of Roma right

Rev: MAKEΔONΩN TAMIOΥ ΓAIOΥ ΠOΠΛIΛIOΥ (MACEDON, QUAESTOR GAIUS PUPLILIUS) in three lines within oak wreath.

Ref: BMC 72; SNG Copenhagen 1320. 10.58g, 21.6mm, 

Possible location of serpent??

@shanxi very clever of you, and to all other contributors. Your contributions are most welcome.

As Doug stated

1 hour ago, dougsmit said:

I see this as as good an ID as we could hope to have on a coin with so little detail.  Good work!

I agree. Thank you, all, again.

I have this (worn) bronze coin AE19mm., 3.36gm. that I believe to be a Septimus Severus / Altar, but I cannot find a reference to this coin.

Can anyone assist me please?

5 minutes ago, ambr0zie said:

I think that is an incorrect description. Probably an attributor was not sure about what they're writing/wrong copy paste/ whatever and the incorrect attribution was copied by other people. 

Your coin is from Syria, Laodicea. I think Seleucia Pieria is wrong and has no connection to your coin. 

 

@ambr0zie  Thank you. That is what I was after. Clears it up for me. Thank you, again.

I have a Roman Provincial coin where the 'reference' describes both 'towns' which is confusing me greatly.

If the mint was at Laodicea (Turkey), then what is the reference to Seleucia (Macedon) and Pieria (Macedon) for?

Where does Antioch (Syria) fit in?

For my purposes I only need the region and the town (i.e. Macedon, Thessalonika)

My coin:

1642 Philip IV Sp. Netherlands (Double Strike)

(Date reads 16442)

1606 PHILIP III Spain KM#7.1 Segovia 

I recently picked up this silver obol from THRACE, Apollonia Pontika (400-350 B.C.) 1.23gm., AR9 mm.

Obv: Gargonian facing,

Rev: Anchor with crayfish and 'A' in R. and L. fields, and ΚΩΜΥ to the left.

Ref: SNG BM Black Sea 173

On 8/2/2023 at 8:51 AM, robinjojo said:

And looting for artifacts is not the only issue.  Some wrecks, notably World War II wrecks, such as the HMS Prince of Wales have been exploited for their scrap metal value.

Let us not forget the unexploded ordinance from such ships that has become unstable over time.

I am happy with this recent pick-up.

On 7/19/2023 at 9:13 PM, ambr0zie said:

 

 

@ambr0zie     I started to translate the plaque and the first line reads something like "AGAQHI   TUCHI   QEOIST" (which was 'Greek' to me) so I gave up.

My coin arrived, and as promised here are some better photos of it.

3rd-2nd century B.C. THRACE Kallatis AR Hemidrachm 2.37gm., 13mm.

Herakles / Bowcase and Club

SNG BMC 203

On 7/27/2023 at 5:53 AM, PeteB said:

MOESIA INFERIOR. Callatis/Kallatis. Pseudo-autonomous. Time of Antoninus Pius to Marcus Aurelius (138-180). Æ (15mm, 2.44 gm, 12h). Obv: Helmeted and draped bust of Athena right, wearing aegis.
Rev: ΚΑΛΛΑΤΙΑΝΩΝ (Starting bottom left and going around counter-clockwise to the top). Shield decorated with wreath between club right and quiver left.  RPC IV.1 online 8359. (var. reverse legend location); AMNG I 269 (var. same).

 

Interesting legend on this coin. on the reverse at the bottom we have ΚΑΛΛΑ that reads from left to right and at the top we have ΤΙΑΝΩΝ still following the legend around the coin but with the top of the letter on the rim of the coin, and also, the letters are 'mirrored' (the 'N's are back to front).

( A 'clearer to read' image, for reference, below).

On 7/20/2023 at 12:28 AM, kirispupis said:

Very interesting! I've never been to Kallatis but would love to go someday. Here's my only coin from there.

Thrace, Kallatis
Circa 250 BCE
Bronze 25mm 9.74g
Laureate head of Apollo right
Tripod “KA??A-TIANON” “A?O?A” below
HGC 3.2, 1828

Believe your legend may be KAΛΛA-TIANΩN with AΠOΛΛO in exergue.

Poss. AMNG I 227; cf. SNG BM Black Sea 214 (monogram); cf. SNG Stancomb 69 (AΠOΛ)

On 7/25/2023 at 5:16 AM, TIF said:

 

Hope all's well with you and all the old (and new!) gang.

Thanks for all of your help, and looking forward to more of the same.

Wishing you the best, (you deserve it), with everything.

On 7/19/2023 at 9:13 PM, ambr0zie said:

Just returned from my holiday ... I have to admit that sitting on the beach, drinking an eating all day 

Here is the coin I won a few weeks ago (again, the post probably used some snails as couriers). Not extremely special when it comes to design, but I find it interesting and I am glad I managed to add a coin from Callatis to complete the series I wanted (Tomis-Callatis-Histria)

 

Do you have coins from Callatis? Or coins from places you like to visit? 

 

Snap! I just bought a coin from Kallatis, but it is yet to arrive. I do have the seller's (bad?) photos though. Heracles looks far from happy. (I shall post better ones when the coin arrives.)

Kallatis, Thrace, , Silver Hemidrachm, 300-200 BC

BTW. Love the write-up.

10 hours ago, John Conduitt said:

They should probably go in the medieval forum. But they're not genuine. 0.061g is impossibly light for silver and you have a die match.

I'm not even sure they're meant to be English as the style, legends and flans are wrong. But English pennies vaguely like this are more like 20mm and over 1g. It might be trying to be Aethelred or a Norse coin.

3 hours ago, akeady said:

I doubt they're real either.   As John Conduitt says above, the attempts at legends are reminiscent of some of the later Hiberno-Norse issues - Phase V, VI?   By the Phase V issues, the legends had degenerated into lines like you have above.

The weights can't be right - are the units grams?   Even the later light Hiberno-Norse coins were close to 1g.

ATB,
Aidan.

Thank you @John Conduitt and @akeady.

Clearly I had doubts, hence the post. The seller claimed they were Hiberno-Manx 1030-34 but I have never heard of that description, and the weights looked 'light' to me too. The coins looked 'fresh' and the legends didn't read right.

I have been offered some early English coins but I don't know if they are the genuine article or not, so I am looking for some assistance, please.

They are silver and weigh 0.061, and 0.051. The largest is 13mm.

8 minutes ago, CPK said:

1 Som note - Kyrgyzstan

1 Som - Kyrgyzstan – Numista

Thank you Connor. I didn't know I had currency from Kyrgyzstan