Being that this is ancients, as you all do, I make up my own rules (says the guy who is about to post one of the most popular little side...
I purchased this little Byzy boy years ago listed as a coin of Phocas. One issue though, I could never get an ID on it of my own. Recently, I have...
Plenty, if not most, nations have some disgraceful beginnings. But nobody celebrated, and more than likely out and out embellished, shameful...
Admittedly, when it comes to coins I have been a real superficial SOB. There are 2 types of coins that I have had an interest in for some time and...
Oh, the Roman senate. Bunch of blue blooded, rich, power hungry, advice giving snobs. [ATTACH] As you all are familiar with the Roman senate...
That's right! 1,831 years ago that absolute maniac is born. [ATTACH] Looking at him, who could've guessed such a mad man lay underneath the...
It all starts with the Trojan war. And by "it" I mean much of Western civilization. Well, that and where my love of all things from ancient Greece...
Though we often joke about the arbitrariness of it being 12 Caesars, "Why not 7, 10 or 42???", it was, however, the amount of Caesars that the...
Such a beautiful portrait...so why did some ancient knuckle head drive a sharp weapon into the face of Roma repeatedly, apparently so upset with...
With some recent posts about sub par customer service from certain auction houses, I thought I would take the time to tell a story of mine of a...
How this delicious Jem of teen angst nearly slipped past the goalie I'll never know! Here's your reminder that 1,797 years ago Elagabalus and his...
I know, I know, it's not a new coin. And some might really not like the fact that these coins are under glass, though very easily retrieved....
My latest and GREATEST acquisition just arrived from the collection of none other than my brother from another mother @Bing! And I think she might...
For a guy with a near flawless beard, it should be no surprise that the man had many tricks up his sleeves and under that beard! [IMG] On this...
On today's date, 1,964 years ago, Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, [ATTACH] natural son of Claudius and heir to the empire of Rome, "chokes"...
Money [MEDIA] it's a crime Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie [ATTACH] Money, so they say, Is [ATTACH] today. But if you ask for a...
Looking for that, not just once in a lifetime, but once in a million years girl. Though...since coins haven't been around for a million years...
Pardon the reach here. I know that the only thing ancient about this coin of barely over 200 years is the name of the board that it is posted in....
War. Glamorized, stylized and expediatized (pretty sure I just made up that last one) through Weaponry! [ATTACH] (Alexander the great mosaic)...
Lucius Aelius was granted the title Caesar after accepting the request of Hadrian to be his successor (not to be confused with Hadrian's boy toy...
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