Are private collectors better custodians? When a hoard is found, well-known dealers from Europe or North America manage to buy it and carefully...
I like very much the Corinthian helmet painted like a Vietnam War-era US M1 helmet. Why not, after all? While Athenian youths were being drafted...
The turreted goddess is not Concordia, it is Constantinople, because she is enthroned, one foot on prow. This is the characteristic of...
Pictures of the fragments of statuettes I think were toys: [ATTACH] A woman with holes for earrings. [ATTACH] A warrior with a hole in his...
On Republican Roman didrachms and later denarii the crest of Roma's helmet always represents a griffin. Among the bronze material found by the...
Thanks for the reply. These terracotta busts or statuettes are very interesting because they were cheap artefacts made in huge quantities, easily...
If you go to Venice (Italy, not Florida, I've been to both and enjoyed both) you will see in front of the Arsenal four marble statues of lions...
I had never seen before such thing as a Roman imperial terracotta mini-bust. Do you know any parallels, in museums or private collections?
Crusader or not, justice in America is still very indulgent on antiquities trafficking. A dealer (no name, I don't want to be banned), after...
[ATTACH] [CERES] AVGVSTA / SC on a dupondius of Claudius. Next : Claudius I sestertius
Your tetradrachm is an imitation, sure, mainly because of the ornament on the helmet's neck guard which is obviously unathenian. Of course nobody...
I don't think the person sitting on a stool on top of platform can be Antoninus Pius. The stool has straight legs, which means the person sitting...
Congratulations ! I cannot say which ones are my favourites. Probably Paulina, Divus Verus and especially the Triumvirate ! This is what I call a...
In France, in the 1990-2000s, there was an entire collection of college textbooks and manuals from a well-reputed publisher (Presses...
[ATTACH] I'm afraid it's nearly the same as @Ryro 's, but mine has only one tuna-fish. Gades (Cadix, Spain), late 3rd c. BC. AE 19 mm. Obv.: head...
From the released photographs, the coins are Roman sestertii of the 2nd and 3rd c., from Antoninus Pius to Gallienus. The shape of the gold ring...
[ATTACH] Carthage AE 27mm, 21.06 g. 200-146 BC. Obv.: head of Tanit left Rev.: horse pacing r., punic letter beneath. Next : punic script
It is a pity that nearly all of these coins surface on the international market with no whereabouts at all: we shall never know where they were...
Sub-Saharan Africa in Antiquity is not well-known... There is an exception, the kingdom of Axum in today's Ethiopia. This African kingdom traded...
[ATTACH] The coin matches the description: do you see the bust of Jesus on your coin, now?
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