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Good on you, man!
@Valentinian Thanks! I’d been meaning to pick up that book for awhile. I’ve heard glowing reviews about it from multiple people.
I have always wondered why it was so easy for the Arabs to sweep into Mesopotamia and Palestine in the 630's and 40's. The historical consensus is...
Fascinating post! Here is an Siliqua of Honorius struck in Rome in either 407 or 408 during the first siege of Rome. As with the LRB’s there is a...
Huh, that actually makes sense now that you mention it.
Coins of Magnus Maximus are scarce, and silver coins of his even more so. Somehow though, I've been able to track down at least 2 of his Silique...
As a general rule I like late Roman silver coins( Siliquae), but also like coins that I can tie into my field of study(Microbiology). [ATTACH] A...
Wow...... It’s crazy to think that that if that child were born today in Italy he could expect to live into his 80’s. There should be statues...
Life would have been pretty miserable anywhere back then, but honestly the cities would have been worse. Most of the population lived in cramped...
Ancient Rome was an advanced civilization that lasted in one form or another for over a thousand years. At it's height in 117 CE, Rome stretched...
I live by the missisippi river in the Deep South, where summer temps regularly get in the mid to high 90’s. Even indoors it still sometimes feels...
One reason why I collect silver coins instead of bronze ones is because the area I live in constantly has a humidity of over 50% :yack:
Lovely coin everyone. @Valentinian Here is one of Antiochus II that looks nearly indistinguishable from his fathers coins. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
After recently diving into Seleucid coins, and getting a tetradrachm of Antiochus II Theos, I decided to get one of his father, Antiochus I Soter....
Love Seleucid coins Antiochus II Theos Tetradrachm Struck 261-246 CE Seleucia on the Tigris [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Certainly possible. I was thinking it was typhoid based on this article. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15081504/ To me, I feel it would...
Spurred on by my fascination of intertwine microbiology and history, I tried my hand at an Alexander III Babylon tetradrachm recently but came up...
That’s a lovey coin.
Looks good to me
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