[ATTACH] Sidon (Phoenicia), AE 16 mm dated year 188 (= AD 77/8, under Vespasian) Obverse: turreted and veiled head of Tyche, r.; in front, star...
A coin struck to celebrate end of a conflict? This as of Nero, of course... [ATTACH] The reverse shows the Temple of Janus, in Rome, with its...
loojs more like a clean-shaven Nero
[ATTACH] Nerva, AE sestertius, Rome AD 96 Obv.: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS II P P, laur. head r. Rev.: FORTVNA AVGVST / S C, Fortuna...
Tiny Vandalic coin : [ATTACH]
I think this young man (emperor at 14, assassinated at 18) has been ill-famed by history, but actually was not the debauchery record breaker...
[ATTACH] Maximian, follis (with very light traces of silvering), Rome 300-301 Obv.: IMP C MAXIMINANVS P F AVG, laur. head right Rev.: SACRA MON...
Bad emperor? Bad boy? Pontius Pilatus would say : "Here's your guy !" [ATTACH] Bassianus, AKA Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, AKA Elagabalus...
Aaaah yes!... I thought it was because with the two square drachms you could make a Poros decadrachm, before upgrading some day... [ATTACH]
Trebonianus Gallus too
The Gloria Exercitus nummus seems gilded. Why?
Obviously the bridge sestertii of Trajan or Septimius Severus did not celebrate "routine restorations". It was obviously a complete rebuilding on...
Yes, you're right !
I doubt very much this sestertius represents a bridge built in northern Britain. And I doubt also Trajan's bridge sestertius represents the bridge...
Excellent post about a fascinating emperor. My favourite Septimius Severus' campaign is the first one, in 193, when he took Rome and seized...
It sometimes happened that the Rome mint, usually issuing SC bronze coinage for circulation in Italy and the western provinces, also minted...
I can share 3 sizes of Alexanders - tetradrachm from Sardes, minted BC 318-315 under Antigonus the one-eyed, strategos of Asia (Price 2665) -...
There was an old thread here, about a BBC site questioning the ethics of Roma Numismatics......
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[ATTACH] Gallienus, Alexandria AE tetradrachm. rev.: bust of Helios
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