Egypt
Hemel Gazette ( Rita Knowles)
- Umayyad Coin Discovered Near Wadi El-natrun
drhawass.com This is a few days old but I am still playing catch-up. There's a photo of the coin on the above page. Cultural Minister, Farouk Hosni, announced that a gold Umayyad coin was unearthed last Thursday during an excavation at Deir Yehnes...
- Isle Of Man Issues New Egypt-themed Coins
IOM Today You will need to scroll down the page beyond the Paddington Bear story to get to the piece on the Egyptian themed coins. Following the success of the world's first Pyramid coin launched in December last year, three more Tutankhamun coins...
- Pyramid Coin A Nightmare For Pockets
The Telegraph The copper coin, a crown, marketed by the Isle of Man Post Office as "a unique gift" that is "a must for all Egyptologists", costs £15 to buy. One side of the crown shows Tutankhamun, the teenage pharaoh who died 3,330 years ago, and the...
- Triangular Coin To Celebrate Uk Visit Of Tutankhamun
Independent.ie (Kim Pilling) The world's first triangular coin will be unveiled today to mark the return of Tutankhamun's treasures to London. The coin, representing a pyramid, is part of a series which depicts the artefacts unearthed in the...
- Ptolemaic Coin
A gold coin weighing one ounce and minted in Ptolemaic Egypt has recently been found in Israel at Tel Kedesh near the Lebanon boarder. This is only the second Egyptian gold coin found in Israel and the biggest. The image on the coin may represent...
Egypt
Expert identifies ancient coin from Alexandria
Hemel Gazette ( Rita Knowles)
The receipt of an ancient coin from a Gazette reader created great interest recently when it was handed over to Berkhamsted Local History and Museum Society, as requested by reader 84-year-old James Fellowes, of North Walsham, Norfolk. Mr Fellowes told us how the coin had been given to him by a friend, Alf Frampton, when he worked in Hemel Hempstead, shortly after the war.Dacorum Heritage Store was unable to date it, but sent it to expert Peter Clayton (vice-chairman of Dacorum Heritage Trust and Expert Adviser for Coins and Antiquities to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport).And from such a notable source we have the following explanation: The coin is a Billon Tetradrachm from the mint of Alexandria in Egypt.
- Umayyad Coin Discovered Near Wadi El-natrun
drhawass.com This is a few days old but I am still playing catch-up. There's a photo of the coin on the above page. Cultural Minister, Farouk Hosni, announced that a gold Umayyad coin was unearthed last Thursday during an excavation at Deir Yehnes...
- Isle Of Man Issues New Egypt-themed Coins
IOM Today You will need to scroll down the page beyond the Paddington Bear story to get to the piece on the Egyptian themed coins. Following the success of the world's first Pyramid coin launched in December last year, three more Tutankhamun coins...
- Pyramid Coin A Nightmare For Pockets
The Telegraph The copper coin, a crown, marketed by the Isle of Man Post Office as "a unique gift" that is "a must for all Egyptologists", costs £15 to buy. One side of the crown shows Tutankhamun, the teenage pharaoh who died 3,330 years ago, and the...
- Triangular Coin To Celebrate Uk Visit Of Tutankhamun
Independent.ie (Kim Pilling) The world's first triangular coin will be unveiled today to mark the return of Tutankhamun's treasures to London. The coin, representing a pyramid, is part of a series which depicts the artefacts unearthed in the...
- Ptolemaic Coin
A gold coin weighing one ounce and minted in Ptolemaic Egypt has recently been found in Israel at Tel Kedesh near the Lebanon boarder. This is only the second Egyptian gold coin found in Israel and the biggest. The image on the coin may represent...