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Hello all! As asked, and because I also think it was a good idea regardless, I will post some of my favourite coins to let you all know what I'm all about, as a new member! I have some areas of focus where I spend most of my attention and money but you'll see I collect anything that I like if the timing is right. I apologise in advance for the fact this will be a bit of a spamfest but I promise that after these posts (an equivalent one in the world coins section is incoming too) I'll post only a few coins per thread and slow down, but right now I can't contain my enthusiasm for finding this awesome place! Firstly my oldest coin! It's an obol from the city of Aspendos in Anatolia. Dated 460-430 BC it does go back a long way! It has a merchant's counterstamp from Persia.   This next one is a bronze coin from the Zeugitania province of Carthage (North Africa). Dated 350-320 BC it makes it older than the punic wars.   To "represent" my roman coins I chose a Sestertius from Gordian III and an Antoninianus from Probus. I have plenty of small bronzes but these two are definitely the most impressive roman coins I have!     To break this up a little bit I'll post the rest as replies to this topic. Also to see how my first actual post works out, maybe the images will appear too large... Let's see! Benny |
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As I suspected the images are enormous but apparently on a random sample of threads this appears to be the norm so I won't mind and will keep uploading the images like I just did! Now onto my medieval coins! As I stated in my introduction post I am very much into coins from Iberia so you'll notice a trend here... This one is a dirham from the Emirate of Córdoba, minted under Muhammad I in 271 AH (885 AD).   Still Islamic but on the other side of the continent, here is a Dirham from the Abbasid Caliphate, minted in 330 AH (942 AD) under al-Muttaqi.   For the first dynasty of Portugal I don't have a lot of very good coins, I may show the ones I have later but let's then go to a contemporary Iberian coin from another Kingdom. This is a Dinero from Alfonso IX of Leon (1188-1230), the hole is a shame but the coin is great apart from that. The mintmark is actually very rare and I had no idea when I got it so I was one very lucky buyer!   In this reply I'll leave one more, and reply on another message with the rest of the coins I have in mind which are all Portuguese! So before that, this last one is a Quattrino from Florence. It's an anonymous issue so it could be any time from 1332 to 1533 bur from what I can tell it's from the VII° series on the basis of tipological elements so 1509-1533.   This is all for now. It's the perfect time to walk my dog so I will be back later with the coins from Portugal proper to post as a response to this thread. Benny Edited by bennycunha97
11/03/2021 6:34 pm
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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.
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.
"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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Benny
Eu adoro! Muito bon!
Great job! I love them!
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Thanks for posting - very impressive!  |
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Portugal
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After a long walk with the dog, I am posting the rest of the coins, now the bunch from Portugal! This first one is a billon Real Branco (lit. White Real) from João I of Portugal (1385-1433) minted in Lisbon after 1415. I like this coin very much as it was one of the very first medieval portuguese coins I got!   This is a Ceitil from Manuel I (1495-1521). There are many varieties of this humble copper coin minted from Afonso V to Sebastião, so mid-late 1400s up until the 1560s or so. They had mostly the same designs with a castle with 3 towers on the obverse and the coat of arms on the reverse. Their design was chosen to celebrate the Portuguese conquest of Ceuta (hence the name too) and the castle is supposed to be the Ceuta fort. I have over 30 of these coins from the various reigns and different types!   Now one of my favourite coins, it's a Half Tostão (50 reis) from Sebastião I (1557-1578). This coin and all the rest from Sebastião are particularly interesting to me, so much so that I am immersing myself in the study of his coinage together with a friend. I don't want to get too ahead of myself but a book may come out of this, we'll see    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.  o-a-ccfopt.jpg" border="0" style='cursor:default' onClick='doimage(this,event)'> o-r-ccfopt.jpg" border="0" style='cursor:default' onClick='doimage(this,event)'> This is all for now. It's getting late so I'll post the modern section of my selection of coin tomorrow! Benny |
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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."
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"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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