In Rome you can change your name when you access to some form of supreme power. It's what the popes still do. The cardinal Jorge Bergoglio changed...
[ATTACH] Tiberius II Constantine, three-quarters follis, Constantinople Obv.: dm Tib CONS_TANT P P AVC, crowned, draped and cuirassed facing bust...
It can be a nice jewel for some lady....
I don't have an equivalent of this sestertius but I have this as : [ATTACH] Severus Alexander, AE as, Rome 231 Obv.: IMP. SEV. ALEXANDER AVG.,...
it must be a sestertius of Severus Alexander (222-235), reverse "Annona Augusti", same kind as this one (not my coin): [ATTACH]
looks more like a horse to me
[ATTACH] 1 : late 4th century imitation of a FEL TEMP REPARATIO coin, fallen horseman type. 2 : Antoninus Pius (138-161), as of Antioch on the...
I found the paper I had read about this: https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/precolumbian-coins-in-america-pdf.1549009/
There was a paper about it but presently I don't remember which one. It was never a mass phenomenon. I was told this also in the 1980s by an...
in the 16th-18th c. Europeans in America sometimes used old small Roman coins for trade with the natives. These ancient coins were rarely accepted...
[ATTACH] Elagabalus, Antioch on the Orontes, AE 8 assaria (= like a sestertius)
[ATTACH] Constantine V Copronymus, with Leo IV and Leo III, Æ follis. Syracuse, AD 751-775. Obv.: Half-length facing figures of Constantine V...
https://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.P189
Ulpian, Digest [50.15.1.3]: There is also the colony of Laodicea, in Coele Syria, to which also the divine Severus granted the Italian Law on...
Yes, many anonymous folles have been found in Antioch See Princeton online coin database for example :...
[ATTACH] Pamphylia, Side, AR tetradrachm, c. 200 BC Obv.: Head of Athena r., wearing triple crested Attic helmet. Rev.: Nike flying l., holding...
Julia Domna, Emesa, AE 24 mm [ATTACH] Obv.: IOV[ΛIA] ΔOMNA [AVΓ]. , bust of Julia Domna right Rev.: [EMICΩ]N KOΛΩNIAC / ZKΦ : year 527 sel. =...
Nazi Germany was a legitimate state. The nazi government came from regular elections. Nazi Germany had business and diplomatic relations with all...
That's a recurrent problem with the hoards that have been dispersed and have not been examined by scholars: you rely on witnesses only. But you...
Anybody tried to swallow them before going to the airport and ... when at home?
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