Nice. Il already posted it but I can't resist [ATTACH] Commodus, AE sestertius, 31-34 mm, 21.50 g., 6 h. Obv.: L AELIVS AVRELIVS COMMODVS AVG...
And this is the last Caesar. I think this German emperor, who abdicated in 1918, was the very last one to claim the title of Caesar (spelled in...
According to Ammian, the emperor Julian in 363 marched with his army on the right bank of the Euphrates, leaving Circesium (Busayra), crossing the...
It is a denarius of L. Manlius Torquatus, minted in the name of Sulla in 82 BC. It had been circulating for 160 years. [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Mother and son on an Aes of Marcianopolis...
Elephants appeared on Greek coinage in the late 4th c. BC, on the famous large 5 shekels silver coins of Alexander, minted in Babylon c. 337 BC....
[ATTACH] CILICIA, Aegeae. Valerian I. 253-260 AD. Æ 27mm. Obv.: AV KAI ΠOV ΛIKI OVAΛEPIANOC CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right,...
My "best ugliest" Roman coin is this dupondius of Galba : [ATTACH] Wonderful portrait with dark green smooth patina, but........
Is this late 18th c. statue of Fabius "cunctator" appropriate? The dictator is represented as a very young man, a teenager, but Q. Fabius Maximus...
Matidia Augusta divae Marcianae f(ilia) : "Matidia Augusta, daughter of the divine Marciana". She was Trajan's niece and Hadrian's mother in law....
[ATTACH] Byzantine follis, anonymous class C, Constantinople 1034-1041 Obv.: + EMMANOVHΛ , 3/4 length figure of Christ standing (icon of the...
Very nice follis ! I like them. Your follis is one of the finest I have seen. [ATTACH] My specimen is very far from that. But I like it for its...
I just have the pics but I don't have the coins near me at present (I'm travelling). I can just post the pictures. [ATTACH] Tiberius, Antioch,...
I don't think it's supposed to be French. it's Latin. AC : Ante Christum (Before Christ). AD : Anno Domini (Year of the Lord).
[ATTACH] Arcadius, AE4, Alexandria. I don't remember the module, something like 11 mm Obv.: D N ARCADIVS P F AVG, diademed bust right Rev.:...
I admit 4 x 6 meters is a challenge, if one likes to hang it in his house. We had the same kind of problem, with a smaller painting, just c. 3.5...
Let's share my very small Ptolemaic collection [ATTACH] Ptolemy II Philadelphos (285-246 BC). Alexandria. AE Hemiobol, 24 mm, 10.18 g. Obv.: Head...
"Trophy tableau" monuments are a very interesting conventional iconography. During the late republican and the imperial period, the bound captives...
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I don't think the portrait looks like Pompey Magnus. It's not his hairstyle. [ATTACH]
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