Some New Purchases

Hussulo

1570 Cyprus (Venician) Famagusta siege bisante (benzant).



Cyprus became an overseas colony of the Venetian Republic after it was purchased in 1489. This coin was an emergency issue minted while Famagusta was under siege by the Turks. It was to be redeemable in silver after the war. In 1571 Famagusta was captured and Cyprus became part of the Ottoman Empire.

16470. Bronze Bisante, Duby II 4; Neumann I 917; Schlumberger Tf. 8.14, F, 3.800g, 27.7mm, 225o, Farmagusta mint, 1570 A.D.; obverse CYPRIPRESSIIH PRO REG, winged lion left, 1570 below; reverse VENETOR FIDES INVI OLABILIS BISANTE 1 F, in five lines;

description taken from FORVM COINS also a picture of the same type of coin on the link.

a couple of books.





and a camare stand (hopefully be able to take better coin pics now!).

TwoKopeiki

Man, there's something about siege coinage that just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside...

Cool camera stand, too - I've been looking for something similar to replace my shaky tripod.

spoon

That is an absolutely superb example of the Venetian!!

Some day I'll finally start that Venetian collection that I always dream of....

unknowncomic

Beautiful.

theboz11

Hussulo

Thanks guys!

Cool camera stand, too - I've been looking for something similar to replace my shaky tripod.
Yes its great its fully adjustable folds away neatly and was a good buy. I bought it of the bay link below.
LINK TO EBAY PHOTO STAND

I'm still waiting on the Colin Cooke catalogue, but there has been a recent Royal Mail postal strike so all the mail in the UK has been delayed.

Edited to add there is a nice example for sale at NEN too. These are quite hard to find with much detail showing. Do to the circumstances in which they were minted.
Link to NEN coin

Rickc300

Very nice additions, You must be ecstatic to say the least. I am going to have to invest in a stand like that one of these days myself and experiment with timed exposures instead of using a flash.