(Posted too late, but because Volusian is wanted, I am lucky !) [ATTACH] Volusian, 251-253 [ATTACH] Claudius Gothicus Next up: An antoninianus...
Most of the helmets found on this battlefield are what archaeologists call "Montefiorino-type helmets", after Gallic helmets found in 3rd c. BC...
And these are modern lower-case Greek letters! In the 17th c. lower-case Greek texts were printed this way :wideyed: : [ATTACH] ... and guess...
too late ! (but my Seleucid bronze was even larger !) grrr
The spelling Τραγκυλλεῖνα is attested on 3 inscriptions in Bulgaria, and on a 4th one from Romania. [ATTACH] The spelling Τρανκυλλῖνα is more...
We just have to compare this stone head with the already known Middle-East sculptures from the Neolithic to the Iron Age: there is absolutely no...
You surely understand this: people know you are interested in ancient coins, and sometimes they come and show you old coins they found or...
Well... very bizarre. I had better curb my enthusiasm. This head doesn't look like any Bronze age artistic style known in the region. It looks...
This is not surprising. In epigraphy too you can see that Greek language evolves. First of all ancient Greek was a mosaic of dialects: Ionian,...
[ATTACH] Antiochos VI Dionysos (144-142 BC), drachm, AR 3.72 g. Next up : Seleucid silver drachm.
In another paper, "Folles sans marque émis par Constantin en Italie", Schweizer Münzblätter, Band 24 (1974) heft 93, p. 5-8, Pierre Bastien wrote...
Did Bastien write the hoard had been studied or was being studied by Strauss and Kellner? Obviously this hoard of 7000 nummi has not been...
My only Zeus Kasios coin is the same one as @Marsyas Mike 's. [ATTACH] It is a Syrian coin, minted in Seleucia Pieria near Antioch, and...
I suppose this MOU mentions Roman coins because it happens that Roman coins are found in Afghanistan... Sure, the wording of this MOU sounds...
These forgeries have been manufactured in huge quantities, and sold one by one?
Great news! So this is the temple of Zeus Kasios built or enlarged in Pelusium by the emperor Hadrian! In his novel The Adventures of Leucippe and...
Of course ! In the rule of law, everybody is considered innocent until proven guilty, and everything not forbidden by law is authorized (while in...
If the dad of my son's GF was collecting ancient coins, he would be invited to visit me at once ! My elder son is single, he broke up with his...
For me, the fact that there may be inaccuracies and misquotes is irrelevant. What is essential is that the US will not be the accomplice of...
Corinthian coins had Pegasus on their reverses. I suppose numismatists attributed these tets to the Corinth mint because of this horse head,...
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