@Curtisimo I was not convinced by Beckmann's article, but I just found good hi-res photographs of the Constantinian liberalitas relief, taken in a...
Well... I don't have much time to reply. Let's just consider for now another better specimen on the second neronian liberalitas scene, because the...
[ATTACH] This sestertius of G3 was given me as a birthday present. AE 28-32 mm, 20.54 g, RIC IV Gordian III 257. Minted in 238/9 : he was only 13...
[ATTACH] Shekel of Tyre, first half of the 4th c. BC. AR 12.80 g. Obv. Melqart holding bow and riding an hippocamp r. over waves and a dolphin...
:hilarious: Why not? one can see things like this... But, after all, the antoninianus can be seen as a successful innovation, it was the first...
I have also this one, Commodus standing on a platform addressing the Praetorian guard. I like the ghostly aspect of this very worn sestertius......
[ATTACH] Platform coins: Sestertius of Trajan. The platform must be called a tribunal, I think... It is a pity the reverse legend is almost...
1 : Damascus. Cf : https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1078324 2 : Scythopolis. Cf. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5196091 3 :...
This letter is not Aramaic, it is the Dadanitic letter Ḏal (= Arabic ذ ). This letter exists only in the Dadanitic script that is used on...
The Arch of Constantine relief is extremely interesting: it obviously shows a coin-counting device, a kind of tray the emperor pours into the...
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