The style does not look Athenian too much, thus an imitation. There is a circular incuse countermark on Athena's cheek, they probably understood...
I have been working on a hoard that contained several kinds of owls : Athenian tets of the 5th c., Egyptian Buttrey types (B, M and...
These unmarked pseudo-Athenian coins can only be attributed if we know where they are found. The question is complex. The Ashkelon 1989 hoard (CH...
I think it's a fantasy cast fake, sorry.
Louis VI the Fat as seen by popular French cinema (Jean-Marie Poiré's "Les Visiteurs", 1993) [ATTACH] An anachronism festival. The king's hairdo...
[ATTACH] well... there is a tiny dolphin in Neptune's hand. Next up : Caligula
:jawdrop: You found all this on the same day?
But are there any depictions of Marnas on coins, in the first place? In the Hellenistic period there were sometimes coins with a bearded and...
The "sign of Marnas" is generally seen as the Aramaic letter mem, and understood as the initial of M(arnas). This letter was already visible on...
The shield is seen from profile: it is not a flat disc but a curved shield. BTW it's still Anthemius wanted. Or may we follow the 12 hrs rule?
Well... I don't think I ever posted this dirham. I apologize in advance if I did and forgot I did. Yazdagard I (399-420), Bishapur or court mint....
The picture does not represent this hoard. The picture represents one of 19 amphorae full of thousands of early 4th c. Tetrarchic folles,...
[ATTACH] Gordian III and Tranquillina, Singara (Mesopotamia) Obv.: AVTOK K M AT ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPANKVΛΛINA CЄB, confronted busts of Gordian III...
[ATTACH] Here is my Aretas camel. It is in good condition but (there is always a but) it is off-centred so the exergue Rex Aretas is off-flan. At...
Thank you, but I don't know how I could do this. Even if I managed to disassemble it, there are parts too big for my biggest pan... Well, I'll...
I don't own any functioning firearm, but we keep an old WW1 relic, a German Mauser rifle. It was brought back as a souvenir by my wife's...
[ATTACH] Ascalon, Trajan. It's the same reverse but with the date ΔIC : year 214 = 110-111 AD. The bird in the right field is considered a dove...
[ATTACH] Claudius the Gothic... (he deserves well the name, judging from his crown) [ATTACH]
The 5th c. AD is a difficult century from a numismatic point of view. They minted gold solidi and tiny AE4, AKA "minimi". I am convinced the 4th...
"Fall of Rome"? - this is a very Western Europe-centred view of history. Politically speaking, the Roman Empire fell in 1453. The city of Rome...
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