This antoninianus is from the Antioch mint, and it happens sometimes that legends are a little blundered, especially Latin legends engraved by...
There is the gradual transformation of the types of the Macedonian Philip II tetradachm by Danubian Celts, then by Gauls... In the end, one could...
[ATTACH] A Billon or Bronze tetradrachm like yours. Elymais, probably 2nd c AD. The obv. type is a portrait of a king Kamnaskires of the 1st c....
[ATTACH] Tetricus II, antoninianus, Cologne or Southern Gaul. ev.: PIETAS AVGVSTOR Next : Wahballath
The IIIrd Republic erased what the Genius was writing, and replaced on the fasces the Liberty Cap by the Hand of Justice, belonging to the French...
I read this one (in a French translation) : [ATTACH] It is the real story of how an Italian 15th c. humanist discovered buried in some Alpine...
Interesting indeed! but I don't think this obol is from the Babylon mint. With a B in left field, it is Price 3408, attributed to Berytus (Beirut,...
[ATTACH] Louis XVI, 30 sols, AR 30 mm, 9.79 g. 1791, A = Paris. Gadoury 39. Another coin I found in an old box full of late 19th and early 20th...
This is of course very subjective. I always considered the coinage of the "Gallic emperors" under-appreciated from an artistic point of view....
When I was a kid, my grandaunt showed me a box in which there were several large old silver coins. It belonged to my great-great-grandparents but...
I cannot identify precisely this obol : [ATTACH] Alexander III, AR obol, AR 9 mm, 0.67 g. Obv.: head of Herakles right wearing lion-skin Rev.:...
[ATTACH] Philip II, sestertius Next: a coin whose find-spot is known
[ATTACH] Same !
Not worldwide. Winnie the Pooh is banned in China, and people who dare mention him face time in jail, since somebody posted this on a Chinese...
in French, maybe... But in Corsican? Does a Corsican ever confess anything? :muted:
This is a classic mistake dating back to late Antiquity. For the Romans, the symbol of Arabia was the camel (generally the one-humped dromedary,...
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The Cross became a Christian symbol only when saint Helena, mother of Constantine, made excavations in Jerusalem and found the True Cross, and...
[ATTACH] Caracalla and Julia Domna, Marcianopolis. Next : a temple
[ATTACH] My favourite Commodus coin: a sestertius with Commodus delivering a speech to the Praetorian Guard. Commodus, AE sestertius, Rome 186...
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