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Ancient and Medieval Coin Identification Help / Re: Reference from Flon, D. Histoire monétaire de la Lorraine et des trois évêchés.

« Last post by Anaximander on Today at 07:59:46 am »

One more thing...  From a |French website comes a snippet of information and a much better photo.  You may have Flon #5 or variant.

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Ancient and Medieval Coin Identification Help / Re: Onluk of Mustafa I

« Last post by Giba L on Today at 07:37:11 am »

what is Onluk??? sorry but Google confused me a lot

Onluk has a nominal value equal to 10 akches
ten
ak in Turkish is 10

many thanks

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Celtic, Barbaric & Tribal Imitative Coins Discussion Forum / Re: Beautiful nummo of Hilderic

« Last post by antoninus1 on Today at 07:25:31 am »

There seem to be more fakes from that period on the market at present. A South German auction house has just withdrawn some of them which had been sold earlier at another North German auction house being notorious for selling fake rare late romans (like Johannes, Marcianus, Majorianus...).

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Roman Coins Discussion Forum / Re: New emission for Severina / Aurelian (?) crescent in left field

« Last post by Dominic T on Today at 07:24:57 am »

Also not listed on Dane’s Severina list.
DT
http://www.catbikes.ch/coinstuff/severina.xls

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Ancient and Medieval Coin Identification Help / Re: Onluk of Mustafa I

« Last post by kitov on Today at 07:24:38 am »

what is Onluk??? sorry but Google confused me a lot

Onluk has a nominal value equal to 10 akches
ten
ak in Turkish is 10

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Roman Provincial Coins Discussion Forum / Re: Strange detail on Nike

« Last post by antoninus1 on Today at 07:17:44 am »

I agree with serendipity. When I saw Jochen´s picture and shanxi´s examples I instantly thought "foot" plus a fault in the die.

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Fake Coins and Notorious Fake Sellers / Re: Annia Faustina

« Last post by antoninus1 on Today at 07:04:07 am »

Very often lots are sold "as is, no return possible". So if a buyer who thought to have made a bargain (but paid too much regarding the value of the other coins) later discovers that the AF is a fake he won´t get back his money..

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Ancient and Medieval Coin Identification Help / Coins in the name of Alexander

« Last post by Michael M22 on Today at 05:47:38 am »

Hi all,

I took these images of some recent purchases hoping that searching would keep me occupied for a two hour train journey but three hours later I'm none the wiser. Any help in identifying would be amazing and appreciated.

I know the small drachm is of Ptolemy I.

I believe the first tetradrachm with the aplustre in the left field may be Corinth mint of Demetrios I.

The second has me stumped - both the monogram and the symbol beneath the throne.

I have a digital copy of Price but I feel like lots of practice is needed with it to become proficient, if anyone has any tips, they would also be appreciated but I know these coins are a huge and complex subject in themselves.

Many thanks in advance!

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Ancient and Medieval Coin Identification Help / Re: Id help please - is this possibly Richard III?

« Last post by Michael M22 on Today at 05:22:35 am »

Could more likely be Edward IV York mint than Richard III. It may be worth looking at Irish issues of Edward IV due to the extensive clipping. In short, I don't know but I'm inclined to think Edward IV York mint.

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Ancient and Medieval Coin Identification Help / Re: Onluk of Mustafa I

« Last post by Jan P on Today at 04:44:01 am »

Kitov, you are absolutely right!
With "my" Mustafa I am on the wrong side of the coin, in the text:"Sultan of the two lands and .. the two seas ... "
  Good that there are at least two to keep an eye open !
Nooo . . . here it was only one!