I don't know if the copper color on the photo is a result of the light when the picture was taken or if, in your hand, it's actually yellow. The...
It is interesting, IMO, to note that these lots of 5th c. BC Athenian owls apparently show no countermarks or test cuts. Unfortunately we may...
Countermarks and test-cuts are very frequent on owls from hoards found in Egypt and the Middle-East. It seems they are much less frequent in...
Solidus Numismatik (Munich) has lately auctioned 45 owls in Auctions 142 and 143. Some could be late 5th c. BC bona fide Attic issues, but most...
There was a hoard of hundreds of Attic owls discovered in 2010 in Rafah (Gaza strip). It contained several kinds of owls. Here are some examples :...
I think the kalima on obv. reads "la ilah ila Allah, Muhammad rasul Allah" (there is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the prophet of Allah".
The reverse legend is IOVI STATORI (Jupiter Stator in the dative form)
These four figures are Tyches, they all wear a mural crown, as one can see on well-preserved specimens like this one (Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins &...
Maximilian Heinrich Archbishop of Cologne, 2 albus, 1667 https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=13377236
There is another large bronze of Antioch, a 8 assaria coin: see the H in exergue, H means 8 in Greek. [ATTACH] Severus Alexander, Antioch on...
Very interesting coin, yes, and of course scarce like most of the large city-coins. The Tyche of Damascus seems to have been designed after the...
[ATTACH] Two years ago I visited the British Museum in London and took this picture. These four gilded silver statuettes were part of the...
Some reflexions on your interesting sestertii of Elagabalus. You wrote . The Adventus is not about the emperor leaving rome but entering Rome....
[ATTACH] This dupondius of Galba cannot be cleaned, but what a portrait!
[ATTACH] Athens, AE 12 mm, late 3rd c. BC Obv.: head of Athena right, wearing corinthian helmet rev.: ΑΘΕ, owl standing right, head facing, in wreath
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