Lovely coin!
@TheRed and @Pavlos I plan to do a ranking of all the Seleucid kings in the 200’s BCE, when I post the Antiochus III coin. Spoiler: Seleucus II...
Here is a coin of Seleucus II oldest son, Seleucus III. Seleucus III reigned for about 2 years and died at the ripe old age of 20. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
@kaparthy True, true!
Wonderful write up! It really can not be overemphasized how much Louis Pasteur changed humanity with his definitive evidence that disease was...
Prelude Few rulers in history had the deck stacked against them so lopsidedly as Seleucus II Callinicus had. Seleucus II was the firstborn son of...
Welcome! I'm partial to Aegean numismatics, his wares seem to be fairly priced. See...
A lot of his stuff was out of my range but I bought a few coins years ago from him. Sorry to hear that he passed.
Admit it VK, once you go Greek you can’t go back :D [ATTACH]
@kevin McGonigal Honestly for me an ancient coin is a window into a past time. To be able to hold a coin that was used to pay a soldier or buy a...
@kevin McGonigal Either a crap tone of denarii or a lot of aureii is my guess. That might explain why we have lots of examples of both available...
I’ve often wondered that to. I don’t have an answer but I can say that most of the Tetradrachms used by the successor states were not found in...
I was wondering that too. Could it be a mint mark?
I normally don't collect French coins, but this lovely 1783 Ecu is an exception to the rule. When it was minted in 1783 the French crown was...
Nice write up. Certainly going to add that to the bucket list.
I am not familiar with the food situation in 1944 Germany, but I would guess that it was considerably better than in November 1918 Germany. The...
@TheRed that’s crazys about his Tetradrachms being so rare/expensive considering the fact that Antigonus II reigned for quite a while.
Does anyone have coins of Ptolemy II Philadelphus or Antigonus II? I know coins of Ptolemy are not rare, but I have not seen very many of Antigonus.
One of my favorite games despite an initial rocky start. Anyone with a decent computer who likes ancient history should definitely check it out....
[ATTACH] That really is a nice coin, @Pavlos. Here is Antiochus I Soter, as he appears in Total War Rome 2, next to a coin of his. It really is...
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