Thank you for the
help on the coins the last few days.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=97517.0https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=97529.0https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=97546.0I have been looking at four or five coins for several months that have me stumped. All the above, was easy for the combined knowledge you guys posess. My
hope was at least one will be hard enough to warrant my requests for assistance but I think I will fail.
So I am finished attributing about 1000 coins from my maternal grandfather and father The
greek coins I found very hard, with a 4% stump rate.
Roman coins I got every one on my own. I
had a 0.4% stump on the
medieval coins. Yay internet. Some my father or grandfather
had attributed, most they
had not, many incorrectly, but I can't blame them it must have been super hard before the internet. The majority of the
collection were almost certainly from my grandfather who was a civil engineer all through Europe and
Africa in the 1910 and 1930s. Most of the coins were found on the job site but some were bought in
Vienna when he retired in the 30's.
Here is my single remaining
medieval stump.
It is an AG 1.40 grams 19.5mm The
Obverse a crowned
king /priest facing forward, holding a royal
orb in the right
hind and a feather or
palm frond in the right. You can see the letters VEPH T?? EPIC The
reverse is an ornate castle with an "angel" on top I can't really make out any of the lettering becasue of the apparent double strike. It reminds me stylistically of an circa 1000 AD
Italian city state, but I have not found it online, or in
auction catalogs, so I am pushing the Easy button.
The coin was in a group of 30 coins my father or grandfather suspected of being of Middle European origin (not
German or Austiran,
his specialty). The other coins in the group I attributed from
England to Czech and everywhere in between. Most were
Crusader type from the 12-1300s, but the hardest and most interesting were from period around 900-1000AD.
Thanks again for the expertise. You guys have been very helpful to a neophyte like myself.
