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| Walking Back In Time From 1600 To Antiquity By Decades (V3.0)
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JohnConduitt
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 Posted 07/14/2023 07:22 am
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My only appearance for this century. But it's possibly my last coin with a date on it.
Justinian Half Follis, 541-542
Nicomedia. Bronze, 29mm, 11.00g. Helmeted and cuirassed bust of Justinian I facing, holding globus cruciger in his right hand and shield with his left; D N IVSTINIANVS P P AVI. A/N/N/O to left, X#1063; (regnal year 15) to right, Large K; above, Christogram; below, mintmark NI (BCV 203). |
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JohnConduitt
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Posted 07/02/2023 5:01 pm
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"Any ideas for the direction I should be going in for investment purposes."
Definitely not coins 
If you simply want something easier to sell, go for coins popular where you live, as they will be way easier to sell without the extra shipping and customs charges. Roman is popular, but there's a lot of competition, especially for late bronzes and I'd imagine Severan coins too, where only the best condition will sell easily. |
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| "Buy The Book" - CCF Wisdom
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JohnConduitt
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Posted 06/17/2023 06:36 am
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I don't know if 'buy the book before the coin' is good advice for a new collector anymore. Unless you have a clear idea of what you want to collect, you will quickly go bankrupt. The internet is a great way of getting a lot of information. Perhaps all of it, especially for fairly common coins. It's only when you start to get deeper and specialise that the internet becomes useless and you really need the book.
So, I think you did it in the right order - wait for curiosity to surpass frugality, when you know you're now serious about those coins and you need better support for more serious spending. |
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| Walking Back In Time From 1600 To Antiquity By Decades (V3.0)
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JohnConduitt
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Posted 06/02/2023 09:34 am
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Here's another drachm.
Khosrau II Drachm, 623
Ahmatana (Hamadan). Silver, 33mm, 4.10g. Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent, two wings, and star-in-crescent; ribbons and crescents on shoulders; stars flanking crown; double border, star-in-crescents. Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; triple border, star-in-crescents in margin; year 33; mint AHM (Göbl type II/3). |
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JohnConduitt
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Posted 05/30/2023 5:36 pm
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Thank you.
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Some of us have discussed how the imagery of Victory on Roman coins also morphed to the Byzantine version, and then to the Lombard version where Victory has further morphed into St. Michael the archangel (circa 690).
That's an interesting point. The English were rather predictable and went from Roman standard to cross, and stuck with that for 1000 years.
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Here is the only coin I have for this decade--another Byzantine Follis. You can see portraits of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine on the obverse with the Heraclian monogram on the reverse. This coin was minted in Sicily in the date range of 632 to 641 AD. I have attributed it as Sear 884.
That's a good coin for the type.
We've been relying on your collection for a couple of hundred years and I think that's going to continue. I have one more for the 600s but I will bet you have the same coin. |
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JohnConduitt
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Posted 05/26/2023 12:53 pm
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This is my only coin for the 640s and my last Saxon coin. It's copying a Roman solidus known as the 'Two Emperors'. Thrymsas were the first coins made by the Saxons - the very earliest are made of higher purity gold and tend to go for 5 figures.
Pale Gold Phase 'Two Emperors' Thrymsa, 645-675
Kent. Gold, 13mm, 1.19g. Diademed and draped bust right; pseudo legend around. Two small busts facing; above, Victory with wings enfolding the figures; pellet to each side of Victory's head (SCBC 767).
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JohnConduitt
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Posted 05/19/2023 05:02 am
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I don't have much left for the 600s and even less for the 500s and 400s. Most of what I do have comes from further east.
Umayyad Drachm, time of Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan, 668-669/AH48
Sakastan. Silver, 33.5mm, 3.77g. Crowned Sasanian Khosrow-Type bust right; bismillah and rabbi in Arabic in outer margin; pellet before rabbi. Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames (Album 5). |
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JohnConduitt
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Posted 05/17/2023 05:40 am
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Not the best looking coin and on the face of it much like the last two. These though have the moneyer's name on them and come from the transition period from gold thrymsas to silver sceattas, with this being at the late end.
Vanimundus Type 55, Variety VaB II Transitional Thrymsa, 675-760
London/Essex. Silver, 0.61g. Bust right, crested helmet, holding sceptre over shoulder; OT[ ] helm. Cross pattée in double beaded inner circle; [ ]MV[ ] (Vanimundus, moneyer) (S 772; SCBI 69, 28 this coin). Ex Tony Abramson; found at Debenham, Suffolk, early 2008, EMC 2009.0024. |
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JohnConduitt
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Posted 05/13/2023 7:25 pm
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That's a well-struck drachm. They don't all come so clear! I think I have some Sasanian coins for the decades coming up. A couple more sceattas first.
Series BI A/C Type 27 Primary Sceatta, 675-690
Essex or East Anglia. Silver, 13mm, 1.12g. Diademed and draped bust right within ouroboros (symbol depicting a serpent eating its own tail). Dove standing right on cross pattée, annulets flanking all within ouroboros; three annulets below (SCBC 777).
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Posted 05/12/2023 1:51 pm
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Series A Sceatta, 673-685
East Kent. Silver, 12mm, 0.88g. Radiate bust with curved exergual drapery; TIIC in front, A and annulets behind. Degenerate votive standard with seriffed letters TOTII, tufa above containing trefoil of pellets, rounded horns, seriffed letters in margin, cross below (S 775; BMC Type 2a). Possibly attributed to Hlothere of Kent. |
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JohnConduitt
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Posted 05/08/2023 10:25 am
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That profile is pretty difficult to figure out as it wasn't clear to me at first that one of the chevrons was actually a nose and that comma-shaped thing is an ear.
Yes they can be pretty abstract. The porcupine Type E is also meant to be a bust!
Only one for the 680s. A few Saxon coins are inscribed back this early, but it seems the names are all moneyers rather than kings.
Saroaldo Primary Phase Sceatta, 680-710
Essex. Silver, 1.00g. Profile bust right with saltire cross before. Standard with tufa left side and FIT / RV in two lines within with SAROALDO around (S 784; SCBI 69 138 Plate Coin). Ex Tony Abramson. Saroaldo was probably a moneyer. |
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Posted 05/07/2023 5:40 pm
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I can do one more. This is from one of the hoards used to date them.
Series D Type 2c Variety 3e Continental Phase Sceat, 695-715
Frisia or Britain. Silver, 1.18g. Crude radiate bust left, with large triangular nose, no eye, chevrons before and behind, linear pyramid neck. Plain cross (SCBI 69, 172 this coin; Beowulf 28 this coin; Metcalf 176 same dies). Ex Tony Abramson. From the Aston Rowant (Oxfordshire) Hoard 1971-1974. |
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