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> These are some great coins @benny and welcome to CCF. So far my fave is the Dinero from Alfonzo IX. That image of the lion is great.
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>I wonder if you could share what book or resource you use for these early coins of Leon. I see that yours is the example in numista and it says "AB #122" for the attribution. I'm thinking that this isn't in my Cayon & Cayon.
Thank you for the warm welcome! As for references, unfortunately I don't have a copy of Alvarez Burgos (which is that AB catalogue), which is unfortunate since now I'm also getting into coin books and getting many. But as I'm young I'll have plenty of time to get the important works! To get an explanation for the mintmark on mine (which was absent from numista even, I added it myself) I contacted an acquaintance who happens to be one of the leading names in Medieval Castilian and Leonese numismatics, Manuel Mozo Monroy. After a good explanation he also shared with me a great online catalogue of precisely these kinds of coins, of which he is the administrator as far as I know. I won't share a link because of the rules saying so and me having just arrived, nor the name because that would be circumventing said rule.
As I get a bit more acquainted with this forum I may share the link here, as per the rules. The last thing I want is to start breaking rules right away x)
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 Interesting and diverse set of coins. Neat triskeles on the Aspendos obol. Thanks for sharing. Good to have you here.  |
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to the community Very nice group of coins. |
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The last thing I want is to start breaking rules right away Sounds perfect thx! "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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Thanks for sharing your coins @bennycunha97. A nice group so far. I especially like your coin from the Zeugitania province of Carthage - a very nice horse's head. |
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Super group of coins! Thanks for sharing. On your quattrino of Florence ... possibly this coin can be dated to 1474, as we can see the mintmaster's symbol of a capon above St. John's right shoulder. This symbol was used by several mintmasters in the 15th and early 16th centuries, but the closest match I can find (for the capon with a dot) is Recubo di Uguccioni Capponi, as seen on this grosso: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8057639 |
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bennycunha97, to CCF.Very nice collection you have. Looks like you will be an asset to our great forum. John1  |
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Welcome - Your collection is quite impressive. Unlike you, I've concentrated on Roman Coinage. I like the mix |
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to CCF, Benny! What a nice collection you have...keep it coming. Wait! We have rules?
"If everything seems to be under control, you're just not going fast enough."
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Now finally, while not strictly Portuguese, this next coin is a testament to the determination of the Portuguese people in the discoveries age. Shortly after the discovery of the sea route to India, the Portuguese created many outposts and "settled" far away lands (sometimes not by diplomatic means, sadly...) and this is precisely a coin minted by Portugal in Portuguese Melaka, under the reign of Sebastião.
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This is all for now. It's getting late so I'll post the modern section of my selection of coin tomorrow! ...did those two pics show up for anyone else? Because I don't see them. (I'm guessing that the file names contained "Sebastião", and some part of the uploading process threw an error over the "ã" character.) |
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No. It didn't show up for me either. I think your theory as to why it didn't sounds plausible.
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I think I fixed it. Will edit the other reply too. It wasn't the ã in Sebastião as the other file contained that too. My best guess is that it was a weird sewarword filter since this coin is named the same as what one would call an illegitimate son, and that's an insult on most other circumstances...    Benny PS: Now I have like 3 sets of the same picture with different names in my uploads, is there a way to delete the ones that won't be able to be posted due to the file name? |
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My best guess is that it was a weird sewarword filter since this coin is named the same as what one would call an illegitimate son, and that's an insult on most other circumstances... ...oooh. Yeah, I can see that. (For context, look at this Numista entry.) Awesome coin! |
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@tdziemia Quote:Super group of coins! Thanks for sharing. On your quattrino of Florence ... possibly this coin can be dated to 1474, as we can see the mintmaster's symbol of a capon above St. John's right shoulder. This symbol was used by several mintmasters in the 15th and early 16th centuries, but the closest match I can find (for the capon with a dot) is Recubo di Uguccioni Capponi, as seen on this grosso: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8057639 Thanks, and many thanks for that date on the coin! Do you have any references for me to learn more about the mintmaster's symbols of these coins? I have a nice article about the chronology on the florins from the Catalan-Aragonese crown that's established on the same basis of the mintmaster's symbols and I found that very interesting! |
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Corpus Nummorum Italicorum Volume XII covers Tuscany, and can be accessed online through the website numismaticadellostato.it. In Italian, which I am sure will not be a problem for you.
Plates XI-XII at the end have the mintmasters' marks for 15th century.
On p.166-167 you will find descriptions of coins with the capon mint mark of Recubo Capponi (1473, rather than 1474 in that auction listing)
On p.179 you will find coins of Piero Capponi (1485), for whom the mark is a capon with the letter P above it.
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11/07/2021 10:38 pm
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