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So, I can find a translation of the hieroglyphs. They are not well executed and I can not identify. The bird is a swallow: wr = great𓅨 it can also be a sparrow = bin = bad 𓅪 For the 2 other, I have no identification, this signs don't exist as hieroglyphs, I think. For these reasons, I think it is a non Egyptian scarab of the Hyksos period

beautiful coins; @robinjojo my largest gold coin is a 100 francs coin of Napoléon III Au 100 francs Napoléon III, 900 °/°° . NAPOLEON III / EMPEREUR, BARRE (mintmaster) EMPIRE / FRANCAIS, 100 / FRs, A (Paris) 1862 on the edge : *****DIEU*PROTEGE*LA*FRANCE 34 mm , 32,2581 gr , as 6 uur, 6.650 ex ., KM802.A. All this coins are in the family since longtime.

Victor Emmanuel as king of Sardina : 1849-1860 Au 6.45 gr, 900°/°° , 20 lire, VICTORIUS EMMANUEL II. D. G. REX SARD. CYP. ET HIER., 1857 and 1860, DUX SAB.GENVAE ET / MONTISF. PRINC. PED.&. L.20 as king of Italy Au , 6.4516 gr, 900°/°° , 20 lire, VITTORIO EMANUELE II 1877, REGNO / D’ITALIA L.20

Antoninus Pius Sestertius

@red_spork I use allwayd RRC for reference, date and mint and CRRO to compare dies

very intersting, surely I will use it, danke schön

this tetradrachm of Alaxander, Babylon, Price 3692, 323/319 BC and this one, from Makedonia SNGCop1315, 158/149BC I don't understand the difference in size ?

very beautiful coin, much better than my didrachme (20 mm, 6.12 gr, 12 h) Crawford dates this coin 280/276 BC, this coin occurs as the only Roman issue in five published hoards and one unpublished. Comparing the coins and the quality of the coins of this hoards, it is hard to date the introduction before the Pyrrhic War (280-275 BC). The mint is incertain, Crawford supposes Metapontum, because the obverse is very similar tn the coins of Metap. and the horse referencing to the very well Punic coins. The corn ear also can be a reference to Metapontum The inscription ROMANO is supposed to be an abbreviation on Romanorum, indicating the town in the genitive plural, as the Greeks did and Rome on his first known coin. It can also be an ablative meaning : made by the Romans. These coin was only used in the south of Italy, where the rite of Equus October was unknown. It is the first time I read this, do you have a good reference For a similar obverse of Matapontum : https://www.cgbfr.com/lucanie-metaponte-nomos-ou-didrachme-ttb,bgr_558163,a.html

Lesbos, Mytilene, electrum hekte. obverse : head of IO right wearing tania reverse : head of Dionysios right, wearing wreath of ivy and fruit, within linear square within incuse square Bodenstedt 77, 10 mm, 2.55 gr, 12 h; circa 412-378 BC

I don t think it is Iberian script. It is an Aes formatum, wich was only used locally. For international commerce, Greek coins were used.

Lydia, Sardes, electrum hemihecte Lion head with star incusum 8 mm, 1.21 gr, Alyattes-Kroisos : 610-546 BC Weidauer,groupXVI,90,Rosen654,SNGKayhan1015,SNGvonAulock2871.

I have only a few German Wildman coins, but this type is also used for medals. It is a tin test (52 mm, 19.8 gr, 1828) of a medal made by De Hondt, an Belgian artist for the 'KONINKLIJKE SCHOOL VOOR NUTTIGE EN BEELDENDE KUNSTEN TE S'HERTOGENBOSCH' . The Royal School for useful and plastics arts in 's Hertogenbosch. This town is now in the Netherlands, from 1815 to 1830 Belgium and the Netherlands formed one country.

Sometimes the difference is enormously : AR stater from Pharnabazos, 380/374/3 BC, 22 mm, 10,69 gr, 3 h, SNG von Aulock 5931, mint Tarsos.

as all the denarii I have for the Optimo Principi are already showed here, i put only one AR Drachme from the koinon of Lycia. obverse : AUT KAIS NER TRAIA NOS SEB GERM reverse : DHMEX UPAT B 17 mm, 3;31 gr, 6 h SNGvonAulock4267,RPC2676. minted year 2 : 98/99 on the obverse, we have the classical titles of Traianus : AUTokrator KAISar NERbaV TRAIANOS SEBastoV GERManikoV on the reverse the date : DHMarcikhV ExousiaV / UPAToV B : Tribunicia Potestas – Consul 2 For some information about the Trajanic mint : see W.Metcalf,The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage, Oxford, 2012, p 406/407.

@Steppenfool, @Prieure de Sion I think the trouth is in the middle. The fact is that the political problems were often created by the manner Traianus and Hadrianus also made the political organisation of the empire. The fact is also that history study is much more critical than before and the opinion over this 2 imperatores is changing

I am more and more convinced it is an non egyptian imitation, I look further but my wife is not very happy with the disorder I make here in the bedroom 😁

40 fracs from Napoleéon I : 260mm, 12,9 gr,, 1811, Paris a same one and a third one of the year 13 of the French Revolution = 1804, Paris mint. of the year 14 of the French Revolution, = 1805, Paris mint

It is as indicated a krateriskos = a small krater a small bowl used for mixing, just as a krater

@robinjojo thank you the recovery takes a long time, during 6 weeks I am not allowed to frove a car. My first hope is to leave the bed. There is no hieroglypj representing an owl and there is 1000 years between the scarab ànd the coin. Thinking about your scarab, it is strong the fired finish is chipped. This way of working is from later periods. Is the underside of the cressent chiped ?

@DonnaML very beautyful coins

Wow, nice little collection

@robinjojo sorry for the late answer, but last week I had an operation and I am still out for dome weeks Your scarabs looks at first sight pf the Hyksos period. I don t have here (in bed for 3/4weeks my books, nut the scarab looks very high for his size. The upper site looks normal, but the sides are not correct,imo. For the hieroglyphs : a very bad work, the first maybe a broken? Cressent of the moon, in the middle a bird, not ân owl and at right maybe a serpent. I am not sure of all this, I have to check it later. Conclusion : Huksos period or near easter imitation, but very nicr

deo volente, next year a round trip by car in Spain. Last time was in 2017

@expat Spain is very nice to live. I lived about 3 years near to Algeciras and was making at least 2 times a month the trip to Ceuta for my job. As young man it was a very happy time and I think the way of live changed a lot in 50 years. @jdmKY thanks for the tip, it ill be for the month of may next year to admire this

@ambr0ziewhat was your smaller price : 1,14 euros.? You are a lucky man and I think, it will take a lot of time to remake such a deal. I am really happy for you, it is unbelievable for such a coin about XF @DonnaMLI know, I paid my paperback copy a little more than the half of the denarius of @ambr0zie but it was a new XF copy 😄