Did you make sure there wasn’t a genie in there? :smuggrin: Nice lamp though!
Very nice. Harlan Berk are a national treasure to the ancients hobby in my eyes. Good coins for fair prices.
Nice follis @Mat
Being a Roman emperor after the reign of Justinian I was going to be hard; Justinian had over extended the Empire and an outbreak of Yersinia....
I won two lots. Just received my coins today.
Huh, that’s interesting. One user pointed out Antiochus IV’s coinage, and he is correct with a noticeable shift in reverse legends and...
Very good write up! Antiochus IV’s early demise really doomed the Seleucids in the long run. I’m currently finishing up reading about Demetrius...
Great general, merciful conqueror, and a brave man, but a terrible statesman. When I first read about his exploits in Italy and Sicily I honestly...
Wow!
As promised! [ATTACH] SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Demetrios II. First Reign. 145-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.37 gm). Seleukeia on Tigris mint....
Hello everyone, I was digging through my little hoard of Roman bronze coins to determine what to keep and what to sell, when I stumbled upon this...
I am always amazed at the artistic beauty of coins from the Hellenistic age. Compare this bust of Seleucus I Nikator on a posthumous tetradrachm,...
Very good article and coins! Yeah, I tend to think that the untimely death of Antiochus IV in 164 BCE really doomed the Seleucids. Had he lived a...
@Broucheion Wow. That coin is pretty historically significant then and also rare. Good catch @robinjojo
Very nice portraits of Anthony there. Probably the finest I’ve ever seen!
:p A good magician never reveals their tricks! My latest coin I bought with my strategy. Ain’t she a beaut!!:D [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Type:...
Very nice. Yeah, the wheels on the bus really came off after Demetrius I Soter. Nice coin!
That’s a good question. According to livus.org “The script of this cylinder is deliberately archaising. It is inscribed in archaic ceremonial...
Antiochus I Soter was born in late 324 or early 323 BCE, to Seleucus I Nikator and the Iranian princess Apama. Antiochus's parents were wed at...
Antiochus IV led a successful war against Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII, and managed to capture most of the surrounding Egyptian countryside and was...
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