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Only a few more days to show us your 9th Century coins. So far, we have had some nice ones. Here is a styca from Northumbira, England. Obv inscription is +E DELRED R and rev inscription is LEOFDEGN. Attribution is Spink 865; North 188; Pirie 236.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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I haven't taken the time to ID my Byzantines from roughly this period, and can't get into the swing of early Islamic coins. So I'll post this one. It's probably later than 9th century, but whatever. India, ca 9th century "Gadhaiya Paisa" AR drachm   This coin is the final form of the Sassanian drachm, which spread into India via trade starting in the 5th century or thereabouts, and became the standard silver con after Rome kicked the bucket. The design was originally a portrait of the king, surrounded by titles and the date, with an image of two attendants at a fire altar on the reverse. The design slowly slipped away until only the portrait and fire altar was left, with every other design element reduced to dots. The coin also shrunk to a fraction of the original diameter, but became thicker and sturdier, leading to a very high survival rate today. |
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oh what a lot of nice coins!!
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I agree. This thread has come along quite nicely.  |
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I'm just biding my time until we get to the Roman era. I have more coins from the fourth century than the sixth through seventeenth combined.
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Oh, that will be nice!  |
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On to the 8th Century! Post your coins made between 700 and 799 AD. Hopefully we can rally a bit compared with the 9th. I'll start us off with a dirham from Baghdad Iraq. It was minted in AH169 (785 AD or so) and the attribution is Album 217.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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 Well this one straddles the centuries but falls more in the category than out of it 695AD - 740AD and is an Anglo Saxon Ar Sceat Continental type 11mm 1.2g This thread has made me realise that aside from 1900's coins I have more BC than AD... Lots of early Greek's I am looking forwards to posting. Edited by DavidUK
07/17/2016 07:26 am
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Ummayad dinar, AH 119   |
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I love those early Islamics! That is a type that has been on my list for a good while, but I just never found the "right" one.
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Denier Carolus Magnus (Charlemagne) Mint : Melle (Medolus) About 781AD  And yes, what a shame, it is a zinc replica, made by Museion Versand, Berlin It was made to remember Charlemagne money system: With the disintegration of the Roman Empire was also the unified monetary system destroyed. Charlemagne established his reorganization with a monetary reform, called the Carolingian monetary standard, in 781. He stated that from a pound of silver (approx. 408 g), 240 coins to be struck. The pound was then calculated as 20 shillings (solidi, Sou) and 12 denars (pennies). There were actually only denars made, called very quick pfennige quickly in Germany (English: penny). The Shilling was initially a purely arithmetic unit. This system was used in the UK until 1970. Edited by Petrus
07/18/2016 4:14 pm
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Librae, solidi, denarii.
Even until 1970 we still abbreviated pennies with the letter "d"
British history. Excellent.
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Librae, solidi, denarii. Yet for over a thousand years, it passed the acid test. |
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Here is a fun little uniface coin (9 mm diameter) from Burma. It is a 1/100 unit minted between 750 and 832 AD at the Srikshetra mint. The attribution is Mitchiner NIS-2629.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
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-----King Adz
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