Yes, this one is puzzling. Maybe it's one for which the celator confused or mixed the terrestrial and the celestial globe. Roman celators or...
Are you sure? I would say there is only one belt, and that the sphere is dotted with stars above and under this belt. It could well be celestial...
Celestial spheres are different, they have only one belt (the zodiacal belt). On the denarius of Domitia, we see that the stars are outside the...
(None of the following coins are mine!) The most fascinating of all ancient coins, for me, are these aurei and denarii of Domitian or Domitia...
This one is funny Inspired by a worn tetradrachm of Zenobia, like this one: [ATTACH] the Syrian mint printed in the 1980s SYL 100 banknotes with...
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[ATTACH] Nero Claudius Drusus, father of the emperor Claudius I. Sestertius. Obv.: Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus Imp(erator), head left. Rev.:...
[ATTACH] Seleucid Kingdom, Antiochos IV (175-160 BC). AE 33 mm, 39.09 g. Antioch (?), 169-168 BC Obv.: Head of Zeus-Ammon right, wearing tainia...
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L. Marcius Censorinus, money triumvir in 82 BC. The reverse represents the satyr Marsyas raising right hand and holding wine-skin over his left...
[ATTACH] As of moneyer Q. Marcius Libo, 148 BC [ATTACH] Nero, as with the Temple of Janus
You have my sympathy for this painful loss. Toutes mes condoléances... Two Claudii : [ATTACH] Claudius I, dupondius of Lyons mint, rev. Ceres...
Interesting question : is it the emperor who is seated on the stool? On this sestertius of Nero, one can see that the emperor is just overseeing...
I am not a specialist of Roman finger rings, and I don't have any book with the typology by Henig. Do you have one? I just know a gold ring with...
[ATTACH] Volusian, Perga in Pamphilia, AE 31 mm, 19.81 g. I found on RPC only one specimen known. Because the picture above was too small, I...
If it is authentic, its shape is more like 3rd c. AD IMO.
I don't know if this coin (there is only one side illustrated twice, and it's upside-down) is an authentic coin of Vlad III Tepes, "the Impaler"....
[ATTACH] Anonymous follis class G (and don't discuss the fact Mary was a virgin, I have been educated as a Roman Catholic, you godless...
The Ottomans, using Arabic as the official language, called the city "al-qusṭanṭīniyya". But the Greek-speaking people, probably even before 1453,...
In Mandarin, the character 蝠 (Fu) means "happiness" or "bat", hence the bat in China is a symbol of happiness. In my home there is a Chinese...
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