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  1. It is a nice strike. With a hole they were used as pendants against smallpox in Anatolia after 300-400 years
  2. Almost nice, but beloved. Venetian following byzantine tradition - thematology (if it is not a modern reproduction). 40 soldi with santa giustina (worn). Venezia - Alvise I Mocenigo (1570-1577) 40 Soldi con S. Giustina Massaro all'argento Zuane Loredan (ZL) 1577
  3. a guess without documentation, knowledge on sigla. Can it be : KN (KostantiNu polis) / Istanbul CK (CaloniK(i)) / Thessaloniki ?
  4. Virigin orans or correctly virgin platitera or virgin vlachernae
  5. Great. Dont forget that people who know the history of rare rulers items live in countries where they cannot buy (paperwork). You managed to set a price much better than 3-5 dollars on a bulk lot for a trachy. Keep your latin rulers items, they represent how the latins interpreted the byzantines.
  6. ''Dreadful looking'', indeed for some of them. But these types are the expression of cultural identity (mainly religious) of the issuers using images on coins. Rare thing for coins and not one of them is identical with another (peculiar way of striking). Louvre museum in Paris is preparing a new Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art department, which will put on display nearly 20,000 objects of Byzantine art until 2027. These coins will become popular (thematology) and the prices will go up. It is a newfound underestimated cilvilization, i believe.
  7. Good luck with these trachea. They are real and required an advanced numismatic background to be identified correctly as they are. Maybe the trachea (and tornese ) are now having a decent starting point (price) and not sold as ''bulk copper lot coinage''. This is only the start for late byzantine coinage.
  8. They will be back : more shiny than ever. Nine of them.
  9. We still like the partial fake coin. We will find the other fake half part and we will play with it like a puzzle game. That s byzantine coin collecting.
  10. Wisdom : Buy what you know and not everything that is circular and looks like a coin. These trachea (photos by quant.geek) are too perfect to be true. Even in their times if they existed they would have been recognised as fakes. Ebay can not have any control of authenticity, it is a jungle. Stay away from informing them, maybe some of the sellers are a form of local mafia. MA, V and auction houses collect an ammount of money for their reputation as a service for providing original coins. Serbia is new on these things. Bulgaria s new laws are strict. These coins (original trachea) can be found : West Turkey, North Greece, Bulgaria the late empire coinage, Serbia, Albania. The Bulgarians and Serbians have their own scyphate trachea too, wrongly called imitations, which are not appreciated by collectors temporarily.
  11. the lack of Gold and the high percentage of exotic Zinc, as Rasiel describes, now is called Metallurgy and then (after 1500ad) Alchemy. For some time, zinc was also known as false lead or COUNTERFEITUM . This was used for making imitation gold. In the early 16th century CE, Erasmus Ebner is reported to have established brass works in the Harz Mountains, where a substance known as artiϮcial cadmia/cadmea was used for making brass (Menkes 1970: 29). Forbes (1950: 277) thinks that Ebner was able to make metallic zinc in Europe for the Ϯrst time in the West, but it has yet to be proved by solid evidence. Percy (1861: 519) suggests that zinc obtained from ϰues may have been used for smelting other metals, but evidence of such metals has yet to be found. On the basis of these literary references, it is sometimes claimed that zinc was known in the West, before it was imported from India or when its regular production began at Bristol in England. Neither Agricola's nor Paracelsus' identiϮcation of white metal could spearhead any further development of regular zinc production in Europe. Until zinc reached Europe from India, there was certainly a lot of confusion over the nature and identity of this metal. Menkes (1970: 30–33) writes that during Medieval and late Medieval times, the European brass makers also added old copper and brass while smelting, as there was great demand for this scrap metal in Germany (Figure 3.2 ) and France. The Scandinavian brass objects had considerably higher percentages of zinc without any indication of scrap metal having been mixed in them. Was it made by mixing pure zinc (from India) with copper? In fact, zinc remained a mystery in the West until it was imported in the 17th century CE from the East. This, when imported, was a matter of great curiosity for Western scientists (Craddock 1987).
  12. s.bendall - All the coins appear to have been carefully struck with a single vertical blow unlike the usual Byzantine method of striking with two slanting blows of one or two different obverse dies which usually gives a central vertical line of overlap.[4] There is very little double striking on these coins considering the number of coins in the hoard. One coin (no. 74) has been double struck with the flan being flipped 180 degrees between strikes, something which would surely not be done by a modern forger (COIN FORGER). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Perperi boctazati (vatatzes official but john ii s imitation of theme) : 16 2/3 to 18 c gold (17 c according to Pachymeris) Contemporary Peperi latini, communi, buoni etc 16 1/2 c gold (they consider that the mint had a public department where people gave bullion metal and received coins of different sigla / They consider the latins copied them because of the inscriptions on some of them which are not engraved by a greek speaker or writer ) It was obvious that without gold content they were not john iii s hyperpyra. The gold was given by the seljuks for grain after a famine, he had gold. They have a great story, i believe they were made by a jeweller (shape). If i had one of these tokens i would not consider it a problem, but not for 700 dollars. XRF information and the paper is needed.
  13. 2024 platinum edition jewelry, 500-700 $. same motif and elongated in order to be elegant.
  14. Not genuine : is a cruel sentence. Why? Because they are not av and their shape elongated? Even the grading comapany made the mistake to print Justinianus and not John iii. Nobody is perfect. I believe they were found in Kosovo and it s better to have something, than nothing. In their times they were gold and shiny !!!
  15. Historical character of Nicephorus : This guy was not the perfect husband. In his private moments in the palace he used to wear a black woolen monk s robe and sleeped on the floor and not in his luxurious bed, like being on a military campaign. A western ambassador wrote that he was a vegeterian and used to eat garlic and onions. He was murdered in his room by his wife and her lover, who was his nephew. He resisted because he was sleeping on the floor and was not found on his bed. But when he was blinded by his blood, he started praying Mother of God help me ( Theotoke Voithi). In his grave the epigraph was : He defeated everyone, but not a woman. That s a good lesson concerning relations in a marriage.
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