I wonder what can be this Antioch Trajanic countermark... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I should try to clean it better, but I didn't. Who could ID this...
[ATTACH] This is late Roman silver : a siliqua of Valens, from Trier. Next : late Roman gold
I did not clearly understand what was the problem with this forum. I have seen there had been arguments here on non-numismatic issues, and I must...
Yes, that's true! I think that the first who did it, Julius Caesar, could seem criminal because it had never been done before, it was against the...
A Flag Day? I had to ask Wikipedia for this. There is no such thing in my country, but I could see there are many others with a Flag Day: in...
[ATTACH] Hadrian, Alexandria, AE drachm : Egyptian temple, statue visible between the pylons. Next : temple
[ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, my least favourite Roman emperor. No funny hobbies, no crimes, no mistress, no giton, no nymphomaniac spouse, no...
It is an imitation of old Spanish silver coins minted in South America. See for example [ATTACH] this 8 reales coin minted in Potosi, Bolivia.
Nobody? Let us try something else. [ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, as, 149 AD. Obv.: ANTONINVS AVG. PIVS P.P. TR.P. XII, laureate head right Rev.:...
The obv. looks like a king of Characene (South-East Iraq, 1st c. AD), but I don't know if they issued minimi like your small coin.
A strange clay statuette from Chad Roughly 25 years ago I was in Chad for some business with a local university. One day, a group of professors...
Probably the monogram on the neck-guard of your coin should be read ayin - daleth. There are many other Qatabanian monograms on Athena's helmet...
I did not know Jews were not allowed, or could not become officers, in the Prussian army in the 1810s. Probably your ancestor Gerson Abel served...
He said "any aes grave". I already posted this one but I'll post it again because what counts here is just following the coin theme : [ATTACH]...
Very rare and interesting. Is this siliqua struck or cast?
You are right, family history is a real treasure. My mom wrote her memories about WW2 she lived through as a child and a teenager: the terrible...
I beg to differ. Louis Capet, AKA Louis XVI, was not "murdered". He was tried for high treason, found guilty and sentenced to death, publicly...
12 hours... [ATTACH] Carthage, AE 18 mm. Obv.: head of Tanit left - Rev.: Head of horse right. c. 300-264 BC. Next : Carthage again
I was lucky enough to do my military service in time of peace. My father and two grandfathers served in time of war but survived. My dad was...
Maybe the Zanjid atabegs of Mosul or Sinjar did even better. In the 12th and 13th c. AD they minted bronze dirhams with obverse types copied from...
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