Three Medieval Hungarian Denars

"Saracen Head" Denar of Lajos I CE 1342-1382
AR Denar
Huszar 547 v

O: MONETA LODOVICI
R: REGIS HUNGARIE

Matyas Hunyadi  CE 1458-1490
AR Denar c. 1468-84
O: M MATHIE R VNGARIE
R: PATRON VNGAR

Ferdinand CE 1526-1564
AR Denar 1540, Kremnitz mint, 0.41 g

O: FERDINAND D G R VNG 1540
R: PATRONA VNGARIE  KB

INDIA/Princely States; Junagadh; Nawab Mahabat Khan II 1851-1882

AR Kori, 4.6 g, AH 1280/CE 1863

KM#23

ROMAN/Theodosius I CE 379-395

AE 2, 23mm, 5.26g, Antioch mint, c. CE 379-383

O: DN THEODO-SIVSPFAVG, helm cuir bust r with spear
R: GLORIARO-MANORVM/ANTB with wreath in left field and cross in upper right., Emperor stg on galley being guided by victory.

RIC IX 40d (C), RCV 20484

ISLAMIC/Ghaznavid; Mas'ud I CE 1030-1042

AR Dirham, 3.33 g, Balkh mint, AH 425/CE 1033-1034

Album 1621

ISLAMIC/Iran; Ilkhanid; Ghazan Mahmud CE 1295-1304

AR Dirham, 3.98 g (slightly bent) Maragheh mint, ND.

Album 2172 variety.

ISLAMIC/Iran; Buyid Dynasty; 'Adud ad-Dawla CE 949-983

AR Dirham 28 mm, 4.63g, Arrajan mint (likely though only "Ar" slightly visible) AH 357/CE 967-968

Album 1550.1 variety.

ISLAMIC/Ghaznavid; Mahmud CE 997-1030

AR Yamini Dirham, 2.88 g, Ghazna mint  AH 395/CE 1004-1005

Album 1609

EX: William F. Spengler Collection

FRANCE, Provincial. Angoulême. Time of Guillaume V-Hugues I. c. CE 1170-1245.

 BI Denier (18mm, 0.81 g, 6h). La Marche mint. Struck in the name of Louis VII, VIII, or IX.

Poey d'Avant 2663

Duplessy,Féodales 947

Roberts 4361

O: + LODOICVS (S horizontal), cross pattée

R: + EGOLISSIME (Ss horizontal), cross, three arms ending in circles, fourth ending in crescent.

EX: CIVRAC HOARD (2000)  deposition sometime in the first half of the 13^th century CE.

cf: The Civrac Coin Hoard; Richard the Lionheart's Feudal Tribute by Henriette Johansen/Minerva magazine 17:6 p. 46 (Nov/Dec 2006)

Greece/Seleucid; Antiochus VIII Grypos BCE 121-96

AE   mm,   g, Antioch mint, c. BCE 121-120
SC

O: radiate hd of Antiochus r
R: eagle stg l sceptre in bkgd BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY on r, on l. [EΠ]ΙΦΑΝ[ΟΥΣ]
control off flan, beneath eagle S.E. Date off flan

ISLAMIC/Abbasid; al-Mansur CE 754-775

AV Dinar 4.24 g, 18 mm, 7h, possibly Madinat as-Salam (Baghdad) mint, AH 157/CE 773-4

Album 212

Ex: Stephen Album Auction 2 (2 Dec 2007) lot 1102 

ISLAMIC/Umayyad; Hisham CE 724-743

AR Dirham, 2.63 g (clipped), Ifriqiyya mint AH 118/CE 736-737

Album 137 (scarce)

O: Shahada, Bismillah duriba hadhad-Dirham b-Ifriqiyya sanah thaman ashr wa mi'ya

ROMAN/Constantius I, as Caesar CE 293-305

AE Follis, 27 mm, 8.53 g, London mint, c. CE 300

RIC 22
RCV 14034 var.

O: CONSTANTIVSNOBC, laur cuir bust of Constantius r.

R: GENIOPOPV-LIROMANI, Genius stg facing with hd left, holding patera in right hand and cornucopia in left.

A Century Old Italian Coin with Classical Pretensions

Italy 20 Centesimi, 1914-R KM#44
series ran from 1908-1935, mintage in 1914 was 14,308,000

It's sad that nothing in our pockets these days resembles a work of art even one with pretensions.

Recuerdos de Espana; Examples of the portraiture of Juan Carlos 1975-2014

the top two coins were acquired in Irun, Spain in 1990 during a visit from the Pays Basque in France.

KM 808, 831 & 1046

"New Archaeological & Numismatic Evidence for the Persian Destruction of Jerusalem in 614 CE" from the ISRAEL EXPLORATION JOURNAL

A very interesting and compelling article about a hoard of Heraclian solidi used to support the thesis. A photo of an exemplar from the hoard is illustrated below and taken from the article:

https://www.academia.edu/7286606/New_Archaeological_and_Numismatic_Evidence_for_the_Persian_Destruction_of_Jerusalem_in_614_CE

ROMAN/Probus CE 276-282

AE Silvered Antoninianus, 3.99g, SERDICA mint, circa CE 277-281

RCV 12073 variety
RIC 880
OBS:IMP C M AVR PROBVS PF AVG

REV: VIRTVS PROBI AVG/ KAΓ, emp on horseback rt spearing fallen barbarian

ISLAMIC/Umayyad Spain; al-Hakam II CE 961-976

AR Dirham, 22 mm, 2.32g, 1h, Madinah az-Zahra (Cordoba) mint, AH 358/CE 968-969, clipped

Vives 459

Miles 251j

Album 352.4

"'Amir" is cited on the obs. According to Album, "This person was Abu'l-'Amir Muhammad b. 'Abdallah, known popularly as Almanzor, the hajib ("chamberlain") of Hisham II and the effective leader of the Spanish Umayyad caliphate from the late 350's until his death in 392." (Album page 65)

	الوسط	Central Legend	Marginal Legend حول الدائرة
الوجه Obv.	لا اله الا الله وحده لا شرك له عامر	There is no diety except | (the one) God alone | He has no equal 'Amir	In the name of God. This Dirham was struck in al-Zahra in the year eight and fifty and three hundred 358AH بسم الله ضرب هذا الدرهم بمدينة الزهرا سنة ثمان و خمسين و ثلث مئة
الخلف Rev.	الامام الحكم امير المؤمنين المتسنصر بالله	The Imam al-Hakam Commander of the Faithful al-Musta'sim Billah	Muhammad is the messenger of God. He sent him with guidance and the true religion to reveal it to all religions even if the polytheists abhor it. محمد رسول الله ارسله بالهدى و دين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله ولو كره المشركون

 from http://islamiccoins.ancients.info/spain/alhakam2.htm  (The inscription for "al-Mustansir Billah" is incorrect on the reverse inscription. It is misspelled both in English and Arabic.)

Greece/Seleucid; Seleucus IV Philopator BCE 187-175

 AE 23 mm serratus, 10.03 g, 1h, Antioch mint.

SC 1315.6d

O: draped bust of Apollo r., of archaizing severe style, hair rolled behind, long locks falling down neck, dotted border.
R: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ on l., ΣΕΛΕΥKOY to r, Apollo stg l, testing arrow and resting elbow on tall tripod, dotted border

Obverse control: A/B behind head to l.
Reverse control: A/Γ monogram inner l.