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Ok Ron, thanks. I would be proud to take this up and see if I can help shepherd it along for a little while longer. Today starts the decade of the 940s and so @arnoldoe it would be awesome if you could post your Constanine VII. I should have another Samanid dirham to post later today as well. For everyone who is just discovering this thread, here are Medieval's original rules below. I'd like to follow them as closely as I can, but can already anticipate one area of divergence: I will not be updating with the newly active decade each day at a couple minutes past midnight. Don't these folks ever sleep?  Quote:
1. You must own the coin.
2. You must post a photo of the actual coin you own.
3. Coins need to be dated or for undated coins the minting period must start in the active decade.
4. The active decade changes at midnight (CCF time) once a coin has been posted with a date falling into the decade or an undated coin with a minting period of not more than 10 years starting in the active decade.
For undated coins please include information on the minting period.
This sound a little complicated, so I will try to post the active decade shortly after midnight each day.
5. Please only one coin per post (to ease page loads).
6. Please let someone else post before posting a second coin on a day. "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."
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Quote:but can already anticipate one area of divergence: I will not be updating with the newly active decade each day at a couple minutes past midnight. Don't these folks ever sleep? Medieval sure didn't seem to - he racked up several thousand posts about assorted old coins (some quite exotic) in two or three months, then suddenly left and never appeared since. I always wanted to ask him about the Bohemian 1622 coin (which you so graciously accepted as a challenge). I wonder what happened to him. I've never seen a definite answer, and I know he's probably not dead because it would say so on his profile if he was, but I'm just not sure why else would he leave so suddenly. |
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Hi. At the risk of activating a zombie thread that has been blissfully slumbering for over a year, I wonder if I can plug a couple holes in the boat and move us closer to the ancients? Not that it matters, but I am okay with this, too.  |
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Ok, I'm sensing at least a low level of interest here. Please find below my Byzantine Follis from Constantine VII. It was struck somewhere right around 945 AD and the attribution is Sear 1761. Obv legend is +CONST' bASIL' ROM' and rev legend is +CONST' EN0EO bA SILEUS R OMEON. @arnoldoe, your example is much nicer--please feel free to post it today. Also, any other takers for the decade of the 940s? Otherwise, tomorrow we move on to the 930s.   Quote:
I always wanted to ask him about the Bohemian 1622 coin (which you so graciously accepted as a challenge) oops forgot about that--will add it to my list.  "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
Edited by Spence
05/17/2016 6:24 pm
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Here is my entrant for the 930s. It is another Saminid Dirham. However, this one was minted in Balkh, Afghanistan and to the best of my ability is dated AH 326, which corresponds to about 938 AD. My reading of early Kufic script is not particularly good, but I'm pretty sure that I can make out thelath mi'at (three hundred), 'ishrin (twenty), and sitt (six) on the obverse. I would be quite happy to have someone confirm (or correct) my interpretation. The attribution is Album #1451. After midnight CCF time, we will proceed to the decade of the 920s. I have a hole here in my collection and therefore need someone else to step up if we are to keep this thread moving along. Maybe someone can post something Byzantine? Arabic? Chinese (Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period)?   "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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I wouldn't have anything to but up for a while. I missed some of the earlier ones, but will catch up later.
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Looking for a coin from the decade of the 920s...  "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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OK here is one for the 920's maybe  Constantine VII - SB 1759 - struck sometime between 919 and 921 or from 920-931 |
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Nice work @arnoldoe! We are on to the previous decade now (910 to 919). I don't have anything here, but can help with the next decade when we get there.
"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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 Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, with Zoe. 913-959. Æ Follis. Constantinople mint. Struck 914-919. Crowned half-length figures of Constantine, wearing loros, and Zoe, wearing chlamys, holding patriarchal cross between /  CO#1210;S/TA#1210;TI#1210;O/C#1028; [Z]OH #1068;A/SILIS RO/MEO#1210; in five lines. DOC 22; SB 1758. |
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Ok super--another follis of Constantine VII! Starting tomorrow, we are down to the decade of 900-909. I've got one or two Uzekistani dirhams from this timeframe that I will post tomorrow to keep us moving.
"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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Here is another dirham, this one from Tashkent Uzbekistan. The date is AH290 (902 AD) and the attribution is Album 1443.   "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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Here is my final coin from the first decade of the 10th Century (others should feel free to contribute for the rest of today). It is an Uzbekistani dirham dated AH296 (about 908 AD) and the attribution is Album 1446. Starting tomorrow morning, we move on to the decade of 890-899.    "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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05/23/2016 06:22 am
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Bumping this back up to the top of the forum as a reminder that we are looking for coins minted in the decade of 890-899 AD.
"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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I've got one I can slot into the 870's, but nothing here.
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