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..i deal with Rio De La Plata down south of the border(from where i'm @ that is :P) they are a good auction house ..i won my Didius Julianus sestertius from them...one of the most satisfying buys of a coin i've ever made...:)...they aren't in Brazii proper (Argentina i believe), but close enough you could hit'em with a rock from your country 😛 i highly recommend them...

....O WOW MAN...^^

...a denarius of Brutus Albinus?...whose portrait is it?...and welcome to the Bruti Albinus club..(put'er there paly! ^^) and the ides of March are upon us...lQQks like a fine coin! 🙂

...and it wasn't really too slow, the 14th was the sale date and they were here last nite..:)..3 coins of the Medici(whose name literally mean Dr-being of medicine so they may have been in that line earlier on one would suppose i know of more than one doctor in this age who opened a bank or 2 😛 ) Lorenzo ll, father of Catherine, Queen of France, and of Alessandro, 1st Duke of Florence. son of Piero the unfortunate and grandson of Lorenzo the Magnificent and of course nephew to Pope Leo X and Clement VII.. he was granted Lordship of Florence in 1513 at the ripe age of 24..when his other uncle, Giulano De Medici stepped down from government.... not being happy with just the Lordship of Florence, he then asked his uncle Pope Leo X to also make him Duke of Urbino ...he agreed but only trouble was there was already a Duke Rovere of Urbino...this would lead to The War of Urbino in which Lorenzo ll led a Papal army of 10,000 to the wall of that good city and where he would be wounded with a bullet from an arquebus, an early type of long rifle that featured the 1st trigger fire mechanism.. his rule of Florence and Urbino would last from 1516-1519. he died May 4th at 26 years old, 21 days after the birth of Catherine, being said 'he died of disease and excess'..at 26?!?...(talk about life in the fast lane) Post yer coins n comments 🙂 15mm

..haha! i hope not ^^

..i guess my Medici coins are on a slow boat from Italy...i ain't heard anything since the 18th when they departed the international exchange center....whatever that is...9_9..but it was fairly cheap 🙂

...'DON'T LET IT END LIKE THIS...TELL THEM I SAID SOMETHING!" last words of Pancho Villa...

..idk..i wouldn't think it is but let others ring in on it...:)

...heck, i reckon having a coin of the man who inspired 'The Thousand and One Nights'"..is a good thing!...i even have one of those 🙂 (and finally dug it out to take a pic ^^) dirham of Harun al-Rashid...

...hope you feel better soon Donna...i've had it i guess for about 2 years..i get feeling better but i go to the store once a week and bring another version home and give it to my cat....9_9

..well now ain't that kool1 🙂

..here's a left facing portrait with that type of reverse ..i have 4 left out of 7 Crispus coins...;)

...well...there you go! ...lQQks like 5 out of 6 coiners think your coin is legit.. :)....(it does weigh about right and i';m not 100% of most anything ^^)

i have 2 silver drachmas ...

Hello @zanzi,,,i hate to be the bearer of bad news, so we'll consider this educational...do you see those holes?...they are most likely casting bubbles...and it appears kinda soapy too...telltale signs of a reproduction most times........:)

.. ok man, i'm in the club! ^^

..i have a couple...one that we call a 'tribute penny' and one actual 'tribute coin' from Levon lV of Armenia to the Mamluke Al Naser around 1332, who had some of them overstruck in Arabic

..well thats a great find @Sulla80...luck and lQQking pay off somtimes...:)..

..Lucius Verus...

haha....well, i knew it had to be old cause they quit sending prisoners to Botany Bay several years back...^^ (i just barley remember it:P)

bummer...

it very well could be(and lQQks as tho it is)...as said, i've been schooled on this before....:)..never underestimate the forgers...

..ya know i walked around the pond for a spell, then i just jumped in!...i got this one in today and i think i see a shield on both sides on this coin...and i'm back in the saddle!...yesterday i won 3 coins of the Medici in the inAsta 110 of Italy... Lorenzo ll, Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII..(i'll showsem when i gitsum :P)..and im bidding on another for the end of the month (so far)..welp, i've never seen another coin like this one so if anybodys got a better perspective on it i'd like to hear... POST YER COINS N COMMETS PEEPS! 🙂 ETRURIA Quattrino 1670-1723 Cosimo III.(Medici) Grand Duke of Tuscany obverse: Medici coat of arms shield with circles, reverse:(? i'm gonna guess another shield with circles) 17mm, .62gms

they remind me of Gallic coins in their style...idk anything about these types...