TERMS: All items guaranteed genuine.  7 day return for any reason.  Payment may be made by check or money order.  Money orders receive 48 hour shipment.   Postage within US $3.  Postage overseas $12.  I have multiples available of many items on this page (this is why I use line drawings, not photographs), but feel free to e-mail for confirmation of availablility before mailing payment.

 

HISTORICAL COINS

BULGARIAN SILVER
GROSCH 1331-55

Strange linear styling of Byzantine imagery shows two Bulgarian Czars, Rev.: Christ enthroned.
  VF....................$25.00

 

FOUR KINGS OF POLAND

Silver Cracow half groschen, Fine.
 
Kasimir IV 1447-92.....$26.00
Ian Albert 1492-1501,
Alexander 1501-06, or
Sigismund I 1506-48,
each.....$16.00

 

POLAND SIGISMUND III

1587-1632, these silver 3-polker pieces carry the Polish arms and royal orb.  Some areas weakly struck but
generally fine.
Similar issue of Sweden's "Mad Queen Christina" for her Baltic territories, Fine........$9.50

MEDIEVAL VENETIAN
SILVER GROSSI

Beautiful and important medieval trade coin.  Doge (Duke) with St. Mark, and Christ enthroned, 1253-1339.
VF ...............$75.00
Three different doges.......$195.00

 

LITHUANIA SILVER
HALF GROSCHEN

Depicts the Lithuanian mounted knight and Polish eagle, crudely hand struck.
Alexander 1501-06, VG-F ..... $16.00
Sigismund I 1506-48, Fine..........$20.00
Sigismund II 1547-72, at least VF....$45.00

MEDIEVAL SERBIA:
KING VUKASHIN

Silver Dinar struck 1366-71 depicts Christ enthroned.  Reverse bears royal titles.
Very Fine................$110.00

 

PHILIP I OF FRANCE
1060-1108

Silver denier struck by a contemporary and rival of William the Conqueror.   Obverse depicts gateway, reverse a cross. Orleans mint,
avg. F-VF............$95.00.

 

ISLAMIC FOES OF
BYZANTIUM & THE CRUSADERS

Ayyubid Silver Dirham with six-pointed star, 1100s-1200s AD, weak areas, VF by wear .... $16
Similar, but Urtuqid dynasty, 1200s AD, VF .... $19

OTTOMAN SILVER
PIASTRE 1700s

Imagine a 200 year old silver "dollar" in Very Fine so cheap! All will have normal manufacturing flaws, some may grade higher by wear but crude...... $30.00

 

THE RENAISSANCE
IN FRANCE

With the expansion of the Renaissance economy, new royal coins were struck larger than the old fashioned feudal deniers.  These douzains date from the 1500s.   
Fine....$29.00
Very Fine.......$45.00

EARLY ISLAMIC
CALIPHS

The Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphs held both secular and religious power during the golden age of Islam.  Their coins bore statements of faith.  8-10th century AD.   Umayyad Dirham EF, few edge chips....$25.00
Abbasid Dirham EF ....... $38.00
Copper Fals, G-VG......$2.50

BOHEMIA: FAMOUS PRAGER GROSCHEN

Most important medieval trade coin of Central Europe.  Obv.: Crown.  Rev.: Two-tailed lion.

John the Blind, 1310-46,
VF.......$75
Charles IV 1346-78,
Fine.......$35
Wladislaus II 1471-1516,
Fine......$29

 

BYZANTINE
JUNK BOX

Mixed bronzes of various diverse types and sizes, 491-1261 AD, all individually identified. 
Fair-VG......$4.50
5 different emperors......$20.00

FRANCE: PHILIP II
AUGUSTE, 1180-1223

From the time of the great commercial fairs.  This silver denier parisis is inscribed PHILIPS REX, with the letters FRA / NCO (for Francorum) across the field. 
Crudely struck G-VG....$9.50

 

MONGOL CHINA

This enormous coin with bold Mongol script proves even the Great Wall could not stop these intrepid horsemen.
Fine...$38.00

 

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