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[ATTACH] Antony and Octavian, denarius (41 BC). Next up : a portrait on each side
Yes. Misspellings sometimes happen on Roman coins, not only for Volusian.
[ATTACH] Athens, AE 13mm, 2.94 g. Pseudo-autonomous, c. 120-175 AD. Next : goddess Athena
[ATTACH] This one is funny... Constantius II, FEL.TEMP.REPARATIO, phoenix reverse.
Very nice specimen ! But it was surely not minted in Bostra. These tridrachms or light tetradrachms (there is still a debate) are part of what...
This one is another drachm of Philip III: [ATTACH] Philip III Arrhidaeus, AR drachm, Babylon mint c. 323-317 Obv.: Head of Herakles to right,...
Selling off ancient gold coins is rather unusual. Do you know their provenance, are you sure they are not from a stolen collection? In other terms...
the cellphone photo is not sharp enough to show if it's a cast fake or an authentic coin. It's supposed to ba a drachm of Alexander the Great.
Not only in US... but that was the point of my answer, demagogy. Commodus was an emperor and, as an emperor, undoubtedly has to judge, take...
What happened in 193, after Commodus' unexpected death, can show us what was the opinion in Rome about Commodus. The constitutional system...
Commodus was emperor from the age of 16 to his death at the age of 31. He has been vilified by ancient historians or biographers. Sure, he was not...
ΟVΛΠΙ-Α[C ΠΑΥΤΑ]ΛΙ / ΑC... Of course it is Ulpia Pautalia !
It is an interesting theory worthy to be discussed. How would you explain, then, that bronze coins were also minted with the same bridled horse...
I'm not very good in English and I didn't understand which was your problem...
It is a coin of Geta, Pautalia in Thrace. Obv.: AVT K Π CEΠTIMI [ΓET]AC, laur., draped and cuirassed bust right Rev.: ΟVΛΠΙ-Α[C ΠΑΥΤΑ]ΛΙ / ΑC :...
I am in France and I wanted to buy a book on Vcoins from Charles Davis Numismatic Literature, but all I got was a No Way red notification : We...
The natural evolution of human languages has always been diversification, not unification, thus "progress on this front" would mean even more...
This coin is clearly an imitation, why not an ancient one? It was overstruck on an older coin. If it is silver, I wonder what kind of silver coin...
This means it is not unauthorized archaeological digging. In France any kind of archaeological excavation and taking out of archaeological...
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