20140520
Britain/Stewart and Orange; Three well circulated 17th century Farthings
Charles II, 1660-1685 AE Farthing 5.65 g, 1674, S. 3393
William & Mary, 1688-1694 AE Farthing 4.49 g, 1694, S. 3453
William III, 1694-1702 AE Farthing 5.11g, 1700, S. 3557
ISLAMIC/'Abbasid; temp. Harun ar-Rashid CE 786-809 Afzut type of Tabaristan
AR Hemidrachm, 23mm, 1.82g, 3h, Tabaristan mint, c. PYE 135 (CE 785-786)
O: Sassanian style crowned bust r, "afzut"
R: fire altar flanked by attendants, stars flanking flames
Malek 193.1 variety
Album 73
ISLAMIC/Ilkhanid; Öljaytu Khan CE 1304-1316
AR 2 Dirham; 25mm, 3.94g, Astarabad mint (now Gurgan in Golestan, Iran) AH 713/CE 1313-14
Album 2188 variety
ISLAMIC/Fatimid; al-Mustansir Abu Tamim Ma’add AH 427-487/CE 1036-1094
BI Fractional Dirham or
Dirham Aswad, 18mm, 1.58g, Sur (Tyre) mint, nd off flan
Album 723
According to Stephen Album as posted on Zeno.ru: "Nicol-1968, appears to be struck with the same dies". (Norman D. Nicol A Corpus of Fatimid Coins, Trieste, 2006 is referred to).
http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=139191
According to Stephen Album as posted on Zeno.ru: "Nicol-1968, appears to be struck with the same dies". (Norman D. Nicol A Corpus of Fatimid Coins, Trieste, 2006 is referred to).
http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=139191
20140517
ROMAN/Hadrian CE 117-138
AE Dupondius, 13.7 g, Rome mint, c. CE 120-123
RIC 605 v
Cohen 1470 v
S. 3670 v
O: IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG PM TRP COS III
R: VIRTVTI AVGVSTI SC
20140509
HRE/Sicily; Henry VI & Costanza CE 1194-1196
BI Denaro (16mm, 0.67 gm, 7h). Palermo
or Messina
mint. Struck 1194-1196.
O: +•E•INPERATOR•, cross pattée
R: C•INPERATRI•X•, imperial
eagle facing, head left, wings displayed.;
Sp. 28v
HRE/Silesia; Leopold I "Hogmouth" 1654-1705
AR 3 Kreuzer, 21 mm, 1.41 g, Breslau/Wroclaw mint 1698. M.M. von Hackerl mint master
O: LEOPOLDVS .D G. R. I. S A .G. H. E. B. R.
R: 16-98. ARCHID. AVS-(MMvW) DVX. BVR. SIL
And now for something completely different....Gun Money
James II 1685-1688/1691
AE 1/2 Crown, 14.37 g, 32 mm Dublin or Limerick mint February 1689
SCBC 6579k
Ex: Innisfree Collection
Ex: CNG EA 277 Lot 484 (portion)
A Pair of 6th Century Byzantine Nummia
Justinian CE 527-565
(top)
AE 20 Nummia, Theopolis/Antioch mint, An XXXI= CE 557-558, 24 mm 9.12 g
S. 231
(bottom)
AE 10 Nummia, Carthage mint, An XIIII= CE 540-541, 18 mm 5.05 g
S. 268
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