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Medieval, Islamic and Crusader Coins Discussion Forum / Re: Pre-Islamic goddess? Help needed
« Last post by Jan P on April 20, 2024, 04:23:38 pm »
Hey Britannicus,
Re-reading your start message, I now saw your friends' translation as "Asman" and I think he is 100% right.
That pellet after the "s" must be an arabic "m".
So, forget Ashera, I was wrong. But I am glad I found Ishtar ;).
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Medieval, Islamic and Crusader Coins Discussion Forum / Re: Pre-Islamic goddess? Help needed
« Last post by Jan P on April 20, 2024, 04:13:15 pm »
Well . . . this is more than odd!
I saw your coin or token and thought I could read "Asherah".
I look on the www and fall on the image of this site . . .
https://godswarplan.com/bible-battles-ehud-against-the-moabites-ehud-slays-king-eglon-israel-against-moabites-ammonites-and-amalekites-judges-3/02-asherah-pt
. . . were they wrongly present Ishtar or Lilith as Asherah.
So, with my "Asherah" we came here by surprise to Ishtar, whoes image resembles that of your token in all its attributes.
Meanwhile I checked what you wrote here above and the "godswarplan-guys" are clearly mistaken, Asherah has nothing to do with Ishtar.
If this is not serendipity . . . what Is ::)?!
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Coin Photography, Conservation and Storage / Re: How to Break Open NGC Slab
« Last post by Joe Sermarini on April 20, 2024, 03:40:29 pm »
Placed my order for the book. Sounds fascinating.
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Ancient and Medieval Coin Identification Help / Re: Coins in the name of Alexander
« Last post by Michael M22 on April 20, 2024, 02:51:12 pm »
A friend has had a look, if anyone is curious

Alexander III, Amphipolis mint, lifetime issue
Nikokles of Paphos

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Classical Numismatics Books and References Discussion Forum / Klaus Vondrovec Coins of the Iranian Huns and their Successors
« Last post by Virgil H on April 20, 2024, 02:33:23 pm »
I have been looking for this book and cannot seem to find the bookstore at the publisher's web site, Austrian Academy of Sciences, although in the past I have found that section and indeed this book. I see it available from other sellers but I worry.

My understanding is that this is a 2-volume work. Yet many on the resale sites look to only be one volume for sale and I don't want to take the chance of only one volume when I need two. And the prices all reflect what the 2-volume work usually goes for.

Does anyone know if there is a one volume version of this and, if so, how does it compare to the 2-volume set? Also, if you have a link to the university book store web site, I would appreciate it. I do not believe that this publisher would infringe on the rules of Forum. I have not seen this book(s) on offer here. If they were, I would buy them from Forum.
Thanks,
Virgil
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Medieval, Islamic and Crusader Coins Discussion Forum / Re: Pre-Islamic goddess? Help needed
« Last post by Britannicus on April 20, 2024, 02:22:14 pm »
Wow! This is interesting. If the first line reads "Asherah", this could perhaps be a devotee's token of the goddess. Asherah worship seems to have survived in Southern Arabia well into the Christian era. But the iconography of the figure doesn't obviously match the iconography of known representations of Asherah.

It does match the British Museum's Burney Relief that you illustrate, including what could be owls (my "altars") and the rod-and-ring symbols in her hands (if that is what they are). But the Burney Relief (c. 1800 B.C.) is much, much older, and the figure has been described as being Lilith, Ishtar, or Ereshkigal, but never Asherah.

Has anyone come across such little metal depictions of goddesses from pre-Islamic Arabia?
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Ancient and Medieval Coin Identification Help / Re: Onluk of Mustafa I
« Last post by Jan P on April 20, 2024, 01:55:26 pm »
Kitov, you are a fantastic source of information on Ottoman coins here, but regularly you go off track. How come?
You are very keen and suddenly you are the absent minded professor, who confuses things:
You switch coin numbers 2 and 3.
You solve an identification in the wrong topic
And here, at first your explanation is correct: 1 Onluk for 10 Akçe. But then ...
No, Ak does not mean 10 in Turkish! On means 10 and Ak means "white", because the Akçe is a small silver (white) coin between the coppers.
I am sure you know this, but by a loss of interest underway the writing, I suppose, you go the wrong way ...
All my sympathy though ;) +++!
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Ancient and Medieval Coin Identification Help / Re: Doubt with two Selim I coins
« Last post by kitov on April 20, 2024, 01:50:31 pm »
The two coins are different. The left one is of Selim 1 Yavuz
nominal akche
The second one has a medini denomination minted for Egypt by another  Sultan Read Mehmed
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Medieval, Islamic and Crusader Coins Discussion Forum / Re: Pre-Islamic goddess? Help needed
« Last post by Jan P on April 20, 2024, 01:05:37 pm »
I came directly to Asherah, because above the red line I think to read "Asherah":
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Medieval, Islamic and Crusader Coins Discussion Forum / Re: Pre-Islamic goddess? Help needed
« Last post by Jan P on April 20, 2024, 12:09:16 pm »
Asherah?
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