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Fun fact: IIRC, "scyphate" isn't actually the historically correct term for "bowl-shaped" - it originally referred to a different quality of medieval Byzantine coins, but was accidentally misused for the shape. (I forgot what the original "bowl-shaped" term was.) That said, it's pretty much the accepted trade term by now, regardless of its original etymology. EDIT: oh, right, Wikipedia mentions it. The historically correct term is "trachy". |
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Sorry! Life got the better of me and I didn't have time to review all the entries until now. Here's what I captured: BD251 - 90 Princetane - 100* (It's a bronze from Carthage, I think minted between the 2nd and 3rd Punic Wars, or about 240-140 BC) Pepactonius - 75 Arkie - 200 Spence - 275 Keith12 - 24 Dorado - 50 January1May - 340 (Given that the coin borrows symbology from the Sassanians, I think it is unlikely that this coin was minted before the 5th century) So, if we are all in agreement, I think @January1May is the winner! Also,  400 pages! |
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So, if we are all in agreement, I think @January1May is the winner! Congratulations!  Quote:
400 pages! Excellent!  |
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So, if we are all in agreement, I think @January1May is the winner! Congratulations! January1May.. 4  pages... Congratulations everyone! |
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Congrats January1May
And thanks Finn235 for identifying what the heck that coin I have was. I had no idea, but Carthage seems feasible as it was with 4 Roman coppers and one was definitely minted in Carthage too.
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 bump! "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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@January1May is the winner! Runner-up: Spence - 275 - If the challenger or new challenger goes AWOL for more than 24 hours, the second place winner gets to pick the next coin. If all else fails, jbuck gets to go...........  Edited by Dorado
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@January1May is the winner! I apologize - the announcement apparently came just before the big outage, and it took me a while to find it. In addition, I didn't really have a pre-prepared challenge idea handy... I mean, I did, but then Dorado proceeded to use almost exactly the same challenge three weeks ago. My usual "Numista random coin" method did bring inspiration, but, unfortunately, I think the challenge I came up with had been done before as well. It's definitely been much longer than three weeks, though. In that case, would you be fine with such a repeat? |
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Me too! We've got some new players/fresh blood so a repeat challenge won't even be repeat to everyone.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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OK, I guess I could try...   This little silver piece here might look pretty old to people unfamiliar with late Islamic coinage. However, this coin was actually minted in 1889 AD in the Khanate of Khiva (roughly modern southwestern Uzbekistan), with some rather archaic (for the period, if not necessarily for the area) mint machinery. Post your most recent hammered coin! (...I'm not sure if I should count circulating tokens. Were they often hammered? Same question for NCLT.) |
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Kingdom of Travencore 1 Chuckram ND (1811-1901)  |
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Hey that is a good one @bd251! I'm not sure what my entrant was last time we did this challenge, but the best I can find this time is this Rupee from Kabul that is dated AH 1239 or roughly 1823 AD.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Going to have to sit this one out, being a fan of modern and BC coins - the latest hammered coin I have is mid 17th century - the last hammered coins in the UK were 3rd coinage hammered Charles II ones of about 1667 - 1669.
Early copper halfpence and farthings looks crude (Like George I dump coinage) but these were milled pieces.
That is already 200 years earlier than these late 19th century ones shown.
January1May - not sure about foreign tokens, but many British tokens of the 17th century and the tin farthings of 1600 - 1635 are hammered, but the 18th century conders (1784 onwards) are all milled.
Also many of the French and Low countries Jetons of the late 1500s and 1600s seemed to be milled as well.
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Participation points. Mamluk sultan al-Nasir Muhammad I ibn Qala'un, 3rd reign, 1310-1341. no mint name or date visible. Similar types were struck at Cairo, Damascus, Hamah and Aleppo. Cf. Balog 219ff.   |
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