[ATTACH] Augustus, As of Lugdunum, AE 23-25 mm, 11.03 g
[ATTACH] In 1958, in Paris, a collector met with Jean Lafaurie, a numismatic scholar. He wanted to show him a hoard of 41 Roman gold coins (35...
Fried eggs and bacon for breakfast are a major contribution of Great Britain to civilization. But just thinking of the industrial reddish sweet...
It happened in Europe too, in the same period. Cash coins were bronze coins of little value (see how many are needed to pay for a meal). There is...
According to the Chronica Urbis Romae, Severus Alexander gave the urban plebs a congiarium of 600 denarii for each citizen. That's quite a sum....
That's an old topic, but I could have joined the club and posted my own Lucius Verus handshake sestertius : [ATTACH]
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Of course yes. These legionary coins have been hoarded along with other denarii. They were accepted everywhere.
The comments in the first paragraph on anti-Western prejudices are off-topic and deprive this little text of all credibility. What is important in...
[ATTACH] Syria, Leucas on the Chrysorrhoas (AKA Balanea), Septimius Severus, AE 20 mm, 6.40 g Obv.: illegible legend (?), laureate head of...
I am impressed by @Bing's collection... It's like the whole Mark Anthony's army was parading before our very eyes. But well... Call me a killjoy,...
I love this sestertius, not only for its nice patina or its impressive portrait of Septimius Severus. I love it for its reverse : it's not only...
[ATTACH] That's not a coin. It's the pumpkin I carved two days ago for Halloween.
Very interesting tetradrachm of Mazakes, satrap of Mesopotamia (331-323/2). You can still read MZ[D]K (in Aramaean) on the reverse.
[ATTACH] Byzantine follis or Arab-Byzantine fals... There is a countrermark on the reverse. I know nothing about that...
This coin is not particularly rare, it is not in good condition, it's just a small bronze coin almost 1900 years old... [ATTACH] Gaza, Hadrian...
whow.
[ATTACH] Arados (Rwad, Syria) Obv. : head of Zeus right Rev. : galley ram, ShNT 115 (in Phoenician script : Year 115) = 145/144 BC. Here is...
The crocodile on reverse was one of the most famous ancient Roman coin-types, as early as the 16th c. By order of the king François I (1515-1547)...
North Africa, he said... [ATTACH] Geta as Caesar, AE as, Rome mint Obv.: P SEPT GETA CAES PONT, draped bust right Rev.: DI PATRII, Liber Pater...
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