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| Mid Size Bronze Ancient Coin Need Help , Chach ?
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Kushanshah
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 Posted 05/22/2024 11:11 pm
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The Turkmen of Mesopotamia and the Near East were relatively recent arrivals from Central Asia, having converted to Islam only in the early 11th century. The fundamentalist strain of Islam was engrained in the Arab caliphates but not nearly so deeply among Turks fresh from the steppe. That we refer to Anatolia today as "Turkey" obfuscates the fact that the Turks are of Mongolian origin and not indigenous to the Near East. While some Turkmen figural coins have clear classical prototypes, others such as the coin discussed here display portraits of quintessentially Turkic style. That said, the penetration of Hellenistic culture into Central Asia exercised significant influence on art along the Silk Road. Both the coins of Chach and those of the Artuqids show Hellenistic influence underlying a distinctly Turkic style.
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| Mid Size Bronze Ancient Coin Need Help , Chach ?
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Kushanshah
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Posted 05/21/2024 02:08 am
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| I think @Sap is correct. I do want to add that I think it's more than mere coincidence that the coin portraits of the Turkmen rulers of Mardin at the beginning of the 13th century so often resemble those of the Turkmen lords of Chach centuries earlier. Much is made of classical (Greco-Roman) prototypes for the figural Islamic coins but the Turkic tribes did not arrive in the West empty-handed and culturally bereft. |
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| Persia Tahmasp I, Or Something Else?
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Kushanshah
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Posted 05/01/2024 10:48 pm
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| The mint name Astarabad is in the obverse cartouche, very clear. Unfortunately, the rest of the obverse, including the ruler's name, is flat. The reverse is relatively legible but it's the Shiite Kalima, common to most Iranian coins. Album (C2605) lists the weight of a bisti of Tahmasp I as 1.17g and notes that it is unusually common for a small denomination. |
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| ID Help - Abbasid Dinars
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Kushanshah
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Posted 04/07/2024 10:48 pm
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| In the photo with four coins forming a crescent, the 2nd coin is Aghlabid, immediately recognizable by the word ghalib at top. It is dated 199h but lacks a mint name as always. As noted, Ifriqiya and al-'Abbasiya are likely candidates. The Aghlabid 'Abd Allah, 811-816, is cited at bottom. |
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| Help With Medieval Indian Coin (Id: Jital, Khwarezmian Empire1200-1220 Ad)
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Kushanshah
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Posted 04/02/2024 12:31 am
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Yes, a jital of the Khwarizmshah 'Ala al-Din Muhammad bin Tekish, 1200-1220. Tye 294.
Obverse, in Arabic: al-sultan al-a'zam abu'l-fateh Muhammad bin al-sultan ("the very great sultan, father of victory, Muhammad, son of the sultan"). Reverse, above bull in Sarada (Sanskrit) script: sri samanta, a title meaning something like "honorable commander"; on the body of the bull in Arabic, the mint name Ghazna (in Afghanistan). |
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| Chinese Cash Fischer #1899, Emperor Hong Wu (1368?) Real Or Fake?
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Kushanshah
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Posted 03/13/2024 4:52 pm
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The script is larger and heavier than those illustrated in Hartill. Also, the jing character above reverse has dots rather than dashes as feet. It looks instead very much like the modern typeface jing in the catalog description. This combined with the unusual (applied?) patina and the $750 value in Hartill (1st ed, 2005), gives me pause but I am not a specialist.
I suggest emailing your images to Joe Lang (Joe @ stevealbum dot com). |
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| Is There A Book For Repro Roman?
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Kushanshah
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Posted 02/29/2024 11:07 am
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Easy? Only if they are really obvious. There are basically 3 ways to detect counterfeits: 1.) by identifying a "twin" in a printed catalog or online, 2.) by understanding the characteristics of genuine coins and identifying outliers, 3.) understanding and identifying characteristics common to counterfeit coins.
One website with many images of fakes that hasn't been mentioned is https://www.forgerynetwork.com/
Regarding books, a number of volumes in the series 'Coin Collections and Coin Hoards from Bulgaria' (CCCHBulg) deal with ancient coin counterfeiting, both catalogues of fakes, and discussions of counterfeiting methodology and resulting characteristics. Most of these volumes have been made available as free pdfs by Dr. Ilya Prokopov via his academia.edu page. There are many titles listed. You'll have to scroll through and pick out those of interest.
https://independent.academia.edu/IlyaProkopov
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| ID Help On Byzantine Ae Maybe Imitation?
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Kushanshah
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Posted 02/24/2024 7:32 pm
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| If you rotate either side 90° counter-clockwise, I think you will find it's an overstrike. The "gibberish" in the exergue becomes a rather clear date. The arc behind the shoulder of the smaller obverse figure is actually the diadem of a large facing bust, perhaps Maurice Tiberius. "Pseudo-Byzantine", by the way, is a specific term referring to to a documented class of Arab imitations. |
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