Did Jesus actually exist or is he a legend? The overwhelming majority of historians, regardless of their personal religious affiliations if any,...
[ATTACH] Seleucia Pieria, Trajan. On the reverse ZЄYC KACIOC, Zeus of Mount Kasios, the tutelar topic deity of the city. It is not a...
What does "race" mean? On this double "mummy-portrait" from Antinoopolis we see two Egyptians who lived in the mid-second century (they may have...
Pagans... or Jews ! The Greek inscription is "Alexamenos sebete theon". It does not mean "his god" or "this god", but God. "Alexamenos worships...
Well... it's not Jesus himself, it's the guy Jesus was speaking about in one of his parables. It shows that in the 2nd-3rd c. people weren't that...
these 2 solidi are sumptuous ! Jesus has the same short beard as Justinian II, but his hairstyle is completely different. I don't know where it...
Not my coin, but the scene of Bocchus delivering Jugurtha to young Sulla, like on your late 18th c. illustration, was also depicted on a denarius...
[ATTACH] Byzantine Empire, anonymous follis (Constantinople, late 10th - early 11th c.). Obv. +ЄMMA-NOVHΛ, facing bust of Jesus holding a book,...
[ATTACH] Tarsus, Macrinus, rev. Apollo Lykeios. Wretched but very rare !
They destroy (mostly for the camera) what they cannot sell. They also destroy ancient buildings, like in Palmyra, because some believe there could...
I had a very quick look at Hixenbaugh's article (sorry, it's very late, I must go to bed now) and there would be many things to discuss. For...
Well, in Latin script the Greek η becomes Latin E (not A, not I). The Greek Νίκη becomes in Latin NICE. How could we imagine a pronunciation other...
Much more than just a moral issue ! Security is at stake. Let us take an example. This coin has been auctioned in January 2020 in New York City,...
I don't think the Greek C is a Roman (Latin) letter. It is a lunar sigma, the letter written Σ in Hellenistic times and C in the late Roman and...
[ATTACH] Elymais - Kamnaskires-Orodes III (late 2nd c. AD) - AE drachm NEXT : Parthian Empire
How convenient. There are dealers and auction houses who propose extremely rare coins, never seen before in any sale or collection, without any...
Collecting Greek Imperials may help correctly pronounce Latin like in Ancient times because the Latin names have been phonetically adapted in...
Half a century ago the Western dealers from London or the USA would have cooperated with scholars. For example when the "1973 Iraq (or Near...
This is one of the most fascinating coins I ever know... They have another specimen from the same dies in the Israel Museum at Jerusalem, but not...
Very nice ! is the first one a kind of crocodile? I sometimes think of the bizarre being, much evolved from bats or octopuses in one or two...
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