In fact Egypt had invented coins centuries before anybody else, but had later forgotten this. There is this small silver ingot, 41.55 g, struck...
oops !!! mistyping ! I meant 400 BC (I edited and corrected the original post), after Athens had been taken by Spartans in 404 and the Laurion...
Because 1) the Athenians had on their territory silver mines in mount Laurion, just next to Cape Sounio. 2) they could mint every year huge...
[ATTACH] I do love this game ! :woot: NEXT : Aelius
Nice coins, yes. My favourite is your Justinian follis. Jealous.
[ATTACH] First I saw this Faustina posthumous sestertius as a worn coin. Now I admire the elegance of Pietas on the reverse. It could make a book...
I did not even know such a coin existed !
Do you actually fear it could happen?!! You could have problems of that sort only if you were found in an airport carrying ancient coins out of a...
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[ATTACH] Caius Cassius, money triumvir in 126 BC. In this year Caius Gracchus was quaestor and beginning his political career, he would be...
I agree with you, not an easy task at all!
I don't believe it too ;), and these assassinations of innocents are mentioned by no other source. For me it is just typical medieval Christian...
These small coins (a smaller denomination than the crossed cornucopiae) must have bee minted in enormous, industrial quantities, and probably...
I too am fond of comics. I cannot say I collect them, which would not be true, but I have really many of them, only European comics of the golden...
Many things have been posted on this board about the so-called Tyche of Antioch. Antioch on the Orontes was a Greek city founded by Seleukos I...
Nero is listed by RPC as from Prusa ad Olympum https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2019
[ATTACH] A follis of Constantine interesting because of its provenance. Constantine I the Great, follis, AE 20mm, 2.77 g, 321-324. Obv.:...
I voted the same
[ATTACH] Another rare Commodus, and also very cheap. I don't remember the exact price but I could easily afford it when I was a teenager, with a...
[ATTACH] The rev. legend is Pietas but the allegory is Fecunditas with 4 babies, the same as on the Faustina II sestertius... Why did they chose...
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