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...idk but it seems like those French have a different word for EVERYTHING! 😛

i was of that school of thought but then a peep showed a bunch of 'cheap-if-ther're-real LRB"s' that WERE fake......just sayin'....:)...but i do believe Topcats is legit...

...this coins a little later ..tribute denar paid by Levon IV, overstruck in Arabic by the Mamluks around 1332...Mohammed Al-Nasr i believe..

great finds G68...(yeah that french coin is a ways from home ain't it?! ^^)

...lQQks a might rusty to me...9_9

...i've gotta get a new family photo of the bunch...:)...(and a tip o de hat to @Ryro for me Venus reverse Julia ^^)

...very kool artifacts! 🙂

...a Dan-D fine coin of your namesake here....:)

..i've never seen anything quite like it.....it appears to be cast.....

...my God she was wasn't she?!...time is the robber of youth indeed...6_6

...this portrait of ole Didius reminds me of my avitar of John Carridine from the Twilight Zone

...i think i see where this idea come from...^^

...i see a connection of your ancestor's coat of arms with the Medici's, my new rabbit hole interest...:D...

haha!...that's a fine coin and a great rabbit hole to go down @DonnaML! 🙂

.Sept. Severus...neat coin...idk about the finish ...:)

..my 1st in the collection is my impulse buy (probably paid too much,but) of Cosimo l, a 'junior' member of the ruling Medici's and he was to have great impact on the arts and knowledge by his patronage of scholars and artist...purdy much the last to do so as far as i know now...:) now i await my Cosimo lll coin and lQQk at the others i need... POST YER COINS N COMMENTS PEEPS! 🙂 Italian States, Toscana (Tuscany, Grand Duchy). Cosimo I de' Medici AR Giulio. Firenze, 1572. • COS • M • MAGNVS • • DVX • ETRVRIÆ •, crowned Medici arms, date above / • IOA • B • PROT • • E • COS • CONS •, St John the Baptist and St Cosimo standing facing, DIVIS below. Pucci 111; MIR 170/3; CNI 302-5; Galeotti LXVI, 9-15. 2.84g, 27mm, 3h. Holed & Cilpped

..i have to admit i've bid on a few manuscripts...kool q.g.:)

...Phillip ll, along with his family, take the prizes for several such types...

Elagalabus?....(well, maybe not, but it reminded me of this coin)

...the 2 Valerians....:)

;;it has been said that those were coins... ...would those be "Gars"?...

...welp. sumbodies gotta do it 😄

just made a purchase..i have two budding Artist in my family that i'm am a patron & benefactor of, and of late i've refreshed my learning of those who in the past brought us out of the dark ages (amongst others things for some :P) with art, architecture, knowledge about our place in the very universe, to name a few.. so here's some art of my Artists and the coin of Cosimo De Medici, l i just paid for (sellers pics, i'll give the lowdown gets it!^^) ADD YOUR COINS N COMMENTS PEEPS! ;D a holed guilio coin 1572, of Cosimo De Medici l

...standing you say?!...and please refresh my old memory....:D