This one was actually shipped to me by mistake. I'm kind of glad I;m not the only one who does that.

Justin I 518-527, Folles, Constantinople

These were actually supposed to come. Two more Aleandrian Byxnatine coins. I think in the next two weeks I'll also get some more aesthtically pleasing items

This one is the standard Heraclius 6 Nummi type



This one is usually attributed to Phocas, 12 Nummi. I may be able to get some more detail with a little microscopic cleaning...

What, never bought four of the same type before?

Excellent coins.

Two more Alexandrian Byzantine coins, the Heraclius is from the Berk-England sale of 1989. Didn't know those two ever worked together.

JustinI


Heraclius


Also a birth year set from Nepal, made in the USA.

Nepal 1972 Set

This coin doesn't fit any theme I have. But Einstein is one of the few people I truly admire as a person and for what he accomplished and I do like this design.

This is a trial strike from my birth year. Too bad it has been cleaned. Don't they note cleaning as a standard practice in Europe? Tihs wasn't an Ebay purchase but one from a major dealer.

1972 WAS 500 Francs Trial

I think the design on the Einstein coin is outstanding.

Same here. Great looking coin to remember a great man.

Lot's of fun stuff including an Eid-Mar denarius and an Athentian dekadrachm

I wouldn't mind having one of those as a pocket piece.

I'm just a sucker for Hunnic countermarks



Then just one more for the set

Sooo what kind of job do you have to pay for those? Cause they sure are nice!

These are all cheap 2 figures only.

Nice coins Jorge. I keep looking into the flames now on your Sassanians......

Out of interest how does the weight of the top decadrachm compare with the real McCoy? It looks to me that the word `copy' could be easily obliterated. It looks a lot more realistic than the one someone tried to foist off on me as the real McCoy a couple of years back.

YES! Gaze into the flames...

42.13 grams, exactly the same. But with all of those these are different in style and also so perfectly struck it would take some work. But, like anythign else, they could be altered to dupe some segment of the population.

One for my ancestor set

Another ancestor coin, thanks to Blackhawk.

A few more for my ancestor set

Very nice. Are the copies GMM?

Indeed they are

One more for my Ancestor set, might have to keep it as a pocket piece for a little while.

I like your coins!
I believe you will receive some German 10€ Commemoratives, soon



Marvin from Germany

Nice coins!

Why do you want to keep the 10Mark as a pocket piece?

Picked these up at the last club meeting.

Commodus in Thrace, I couldn't resist the reverse



A couple of Vandals to help full out my barbarians

I've forgotten

Probably to wear away the cleanign lines and the little bit of corrosion just a little. Though it's not really distracting on that coin.

The Commodus is eye catching.

Yeah, I had no business buying that save for the eye appeal

My first Dupuis medal

Beautiful medal.

Very nice.

such high relief.

A temporary store of value

This is an ugly but interesting coin. It was overstruck, but what's off is the iconography on the obverse. The cross between the two figures was used at Antioch. However, the globus cruciger was not a feature of that mint. Also, the figures don't seem to be seated and they are not even (the left is higher) neither of these things is unheard of but all in all it makes for an odd coin.

As it turns out of you rotate the reverse 90 degrees you can see a figure on the left. This ends up being a follis of Justin II at Carthage overstruck on an issuue of Justinian I at the same mint.

This I got in Baltimore. It will be part of my "Centuries Set" the historical edition.