More seriously, in the Middle East when a hoard is found and secured by the authorities, they sometimes make an inventory and stick on each coin a...
A real unbelievable WTF story, but true! Ancient coins dealers use the same methods as drugs or arms traffickers. To detect hidden drugs or...
It's not Monday, I know, it's Tuesday but here are two medieval Armenian coins [ATTACH] Armenia, Hethum II (1289-1306), AE kardez, AE 22mm....
A simpulum, OK... I first believed it was a toilet seat. Pontius Pilatus paid much attention to hygiene. [IMG] OK, sorry... :(...
[ATTACH] Trajan, quadrans Obv.: IMP CAES TRAIAN AVG GERM, bust of Hercules lauretate wearing lion-skin, right Rev.: boar walking right, exergue S...
[ATTACH] Commodus, sestertius, Rome 181-2 Obv.: MCOMMODVS ANTONINVSAVG Rev.: TRP VIII IMP IIII COS III P P / S C - Annona standing left, holding...
There is a limit of 10 pics in a single post.
Congrats ! That's interesting.
Very interesting reverse. Domitian just copied the reverse and the formula of Vespasian and Titus' sestertii celebrating the victory against the...
[ATTACH]
A handful of AE drachms of Elymais, plus one AE tetradrachm [ATTACH] I know nothing about those kings of Elymais... These coins were probably...
a bric à brac shop in Crete? pocket money? Red flags, to me.
Good question. We should check the ancient texts to see which denomination the authors mention.
No problem they look 100% authentic.
I am sorry for your relatives who fell victims of this drug trafficking scourge. Going after dishonest auctioneers and dealers who falsify...
(None of these coins are mine, it's just a draft for a paper) The one-humped camel was domesticated in Arabia in the Neolithic period and reached...
March-April 1305 ! Bravo and all my sincere thanks !!!
Denarii of Mark Anthony were minted in industrial quantities and flooded the market for centuries. They became almost smooth due to 200 years of...
I found in an box of stray old coins this silver one: [ATTACH] AR 25 mm, 4.01 g After a quick search on AC Search, I think it is a coin of 2...
[ATTACH] mine...
Separate names with a comma.
