sorry for the late response, and thanks everyone for the detailed explanations, especially Gao, made it abundantly clear. I got more questions:)...
lucania staters have some the most beautiful depictions of athena.
a nooblet question: did all the different sizes of follis share the same currency value? Or were the smaller ones (AE3,4) denominations? Their...
no one is assuming "authority" or trying to force opinion upon others :O It's just funny seeing graphical remarks related to the black huns being...
to continue what I was saying before lunch... This type of coinage (striking coins out of precious metal) was a greek tradition, and alexander the...
It's just an attribution, doesn't prove anything. they have shared traditions, having existed around the same periods and all, but one cannot...
there are no hard evidences that linked black huns (attila people) and Hono/Huna together, they just shared some similarities in traditions. if we...
Consequences of the germania loss was not limited to just destruction of the 3 legions (17, 18 and 19th), more significantly was that all roman...
most people with that much cash to throw around probably go for a monet or sth instead......
auxilia would wear them for protection of the face and as a status symbol. Maybe also to distinguish themselves from regular equites.
with their scale model stealth fighter or world's longest failure to develop a nuke? or maybe the best maintained f-14 fleet in the world with no...
Hi, steve, I'm no where near as experienced as others, and that's probably why I raise more questions, because I am unable to differentiate many...
Is it just me or does this coin look kinda iffy? Wear on the coin doesn't seem to match that of rim on the flan. There are also some devices...
For that to be true on these specific cases one would had to employ enormous amount of manpower and efforts, regardless of having modern power...
Holy crap I actually get one! Magnesia on the Maeander (not to be confused with its ancient neighbour of Magnesia ad Sipylum, where doug's coin...
I doubt that had done much good. Palmyra was destroyed by timur centuries ago and had been kept a ruin since. What those museum had were...
I'm really more curious than shocked. What you guys think they can do to those ancient buildings? Bulldozers aren't going to work dude. They stood...
trays are better than albums but they get dirty... I wished there were these for us, but capsules are usually too thin for ancients. [IMG]
doug made an excellent point. Collecting of any kind has to do with value of the collection. Eventhough we aren't thinking of selling our coins,...
caligula isn't much worse than otho if one was willing to fill some gaps with AE. If denarius is all you wanted then vitellius actually seemed bit...
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