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Angel gold coin The image of the Archangel Saint Michael slaying a dragon, the legend inscribed with HENRIC VIII DI GRA REX AGL & FR: The image of an English galley with the monogram 'H' and a rose set below the main topmast, the ship surmounted by a shield bearing the King's arms, the legend inscribed PER CRVCE TVA SALVA NOS XPC REDE.
Austrian gold ducat depicting Kaiser Franz-Josef, c. 1910. The ducat (/ ˈ d ʌ k ə t /) coin was used as a trade coin in Europe from the later Middle Ages to the 19th century. Its most familiar version, the gold ducat or sequin containing around 3.5 grams (0.11 troy ounces) of 98.6% fine gold, originated in Venice in 1284 and gained wide international acceptance over the centuries.
1 Origin of the legend. Toggle Origin of the legend subsection. 1.1 Halleck's allegations. ... According to Beauregard's biography, "What became of that coin is a ...
A few silver coins with a different portrait and the inscription Strato Soter Dikaios ("the just") may also belong to Strato III as sole ruler, or to a fourth king named Strato. [ 5 ] [ n 1 ] Just like the earlier king Strato I, Strato III is thought to belong to the dynasty of Menander I , who also used the epithet Soter and the symbol of ...
In terms of the gold amounts recorded, this is where accounts differ and the legend of the Kruger Millions begins. Jan Smuts suggests after weighing and recording this data, the gold sent to Middelburg consisted of gold bars, unprocessed gold and approximately 100,000 ponds to the value of 750,000 pond or around 170,000 ounces.
Roman imperial coin, struck c. 241, with the head of Tranquillina on the obverse, or front of the coin, and her marriage to Gordian III depicted on the reverse, or back side of the coin, in smaller scale; the coin exhibits the obverse – "head", or front – and reverse – "tail", or back – convention that still dominates much coinage today.
The legend on the coin is somewhat unclear; it is interpreted as either "YHW" (Yahu) or "YHD" (Judea). It has been classified as Type 2 Yehud coin. [15] The obverse of this coin also features the portrait of a man in a military helmet that many interpreted as Bagoas, a general of Artaxerxes III. [16]
Bronze coins of Cunobelin 1–42 AD. "CAMU" refers to Camulodunon, where the coin was minted. Museum of London. Cunobelinus's memory was preserved in British legend and beyond. In the early 9th century, in Historia Brittonum, Cunobeline appears as Bellinus, son of Minocannus, and is described as a British king in the time of Julius Caesar.