Sub-Saharan Africa in Antiquity is not well-known... There is an exception, the kingdom of Axum in today's Ethiopia. This African kingdom traded...
In Rome, in the second half of the 1st century AD, they made oil lamps specially designed for the New Year. They represented a victory holding a...
[ATTACH] Tiberius caesar, dupondius minted in Lugdunum (Lyons, France). AE 27-28 mm, 12.43 g. 12-14 AD. Obv.: TI CAESAR AVGVST F IMPERAT VII,...
Many years ago I found this old book, printed in 1728. It is a French translation of the satirical "Caesars" written by the emperor Julian II....
[ATTACH] Byzantine Empire, anonymous follis (Constantinople, late 10th - early 11th c.). Obv. +ЄMMA-NOVHΛ, facing bust of Jesus holding a book,...
Many things have been posted on this board about the so-called Tyche of Antioch. Antioch on the Orontes was a Greek city founded by Seleukos I...
[ATTACH] Denarius minted in Rome in 126 BC by the money magistrate Caius Cassius: is it the oldest known allegory of Liberty? C. Cassius,...
When I was a kid, my father (who never was a coin-collector) had in a drawer not a loaded gun but an old brown envelope with small ancient coins...
One day I found this engraved gem in some dark shop in an old town... I did not know if it was ancient or not but, because I liked it and it was...
There are coins that come to you thanks to dealers and postal services, and others that do it on their own. Life is full of surprises (D. Lynch,...
This coin (not mine) seems to be a bit mysterious. [ATTACH] Obv.: ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟС ΟΥΗΡΟС ΚΑΙСΑΡ (Aurelius Verus Caesar), draped and cuir. bust of......
I have had for many years, probably for 40 years, this nice small silver coin: [ATTACH] AR 11-12 mm, 2.63 g Obv.: janiform head, left bearded,...
[ATTACH] Postumus, billon antoninianus, 21 mm, 3.00 g, Cologne 260-269. RIC V Postumus 320. Obv.: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and...
[ATTACH] Nero, AE semis, 17-19 mm, 4.08 g, Rome 62-68 AD. RIC I (second edition) Nero 244 Obv.: NERO CLAV CAE AVG GER P M TR P IM, head of Nero,...
[ATTACH] (please forgive the horrible pic, the coin looks much better in hand) Domitian, AE quadrans, 17 mm, 2.60 g, Rome Obv: African rhinoceros...
In 1968 in France the BP gas stations (British Petroleum) started an advertising operation called "Treasure of the Kings of France". For each fill...
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