Phoenician/Aramaic graffiti on the reverse of Alexanders are quite common. This is one of my coins, a drachm with an aleph graffito on the...
I am 100% sure it is a Phoenician mem. Phoenician script has been in use for more than 1000 years from North Africa to Babylonia to write...
It is not a swastika, it is the Phoenician letter mim (= M).
[ATTACH] Philip the Arab, Hieropolis (Mambij, Syria) 244-249. tetrassarion (12 h) Obv.: AVTOK K M IOVΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CЄB, laureate, draped and...
Barbarous does not mean Barbarian. And the late 4th c. Sri Lankan imitations are fascinating.
I buy frames only for old pictures, but not for contemporary ones. [ATTACH] (and I really should invest in a new stair carpet) [ATTACH]
Post all things Pompeian, he said... I never had in my hand any coin with Pompey's portrait, but here is a coin minted in 58 BC by one of Pompey's...
You are right, the Vespasian denarii with a sow have no relation at all with the Jews. This sow was a sacred animal in the Roman tradition (well...
But why is Victoria dancing and wasting all the paper roll in front of the toilet seat?
Is it in Alsace? The city of Dambach and the Schoeneck family have the same coat of arms.
I can read SES:KAROL:MA G:IPERATO', thus I suppose it is Charlemagne facing holding a model cathedral and a globus cruciger, above a coat of arms...
ano dni m & ccccc l x iii : an(n)o d(omi)ni M et CCCCCLXIII : In the year of the Lord 1563. It is 1563. Did you identify the coat of arms?
I think it is precisely the purpose of contemporary art. What is art? Greek and Romans had a definition for fine art like painting or sculpture,...
[ATTACH] Fals of Homs (Syria). Obv. KAΛON in l. field (written vertically and right to left), بحمص ( b-Hmṣ = in Homs) in r. field; bust of...
Bravo ! Congratulations.
Josephus tells us what Pompey did when he took the Temple of Jerusalem with the aim of stopping a civil war among the Jews and restoring order:...
I did not know the typically Byzantine ligature ꙋ was already in use in the early 3rd c. These coins must be one of its earliest attestations.
In case someone gives you a painting by Rothko, Klein, Pollock, Soulages, any of those representatives of mid-20th c. painting (but not Bernard...
When I said collecting Swiss coins must be a boring hobby, I meant Swiss contemporary coins, from the late 19th c. until now. Of course. This...
"No.5" by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel made its creator a billionaire.
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