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The BM has got some Abila coins since 1899... For this city I think the best collections are the collection of the Franciscans in Jerusalem...
In the early 4th c. "pecunia" was also used for "mint". The mint-mark for Londinium (London) was PLN or PLON : P(ecunia) Lon(diniensis).
You mean the Parthenon, not the Pantheon, I suppose :). It is true that the Turks had stored ammunition in the Parthenon in 1687, but there was a...
That's a complex question. A lot of Greek masterpieces were looted by the Romans, but often from Greek cities like Taranto or Syracuse (by...
Will the Horses of Saint Mark be returned to their rightful owner? [ATTACH] These four gilded bronze horses were part of a monumental Greek...
Two dupondii I like [ATTACH] Claudius, dupondius, rev. [CERES] AVGVSTA / SC. I don't know if it is an official one or some Gallic or Balkanic...
[ATTACH] King Rabbel II of the Nabataeans, Queen Gamilat (71-106 AD) [ATTACH] AE 21mm of Arados (Ruwad, Syria) : A big head of Astarte, a...
They are right : nobody can be 100% sure such a classical owl is Athenian or Eastern, because there are Egyptian or Eastern imitations made of...
Have you heard of the Cosquer Cave, near Marseilles in France? It is a cave full of prehistoric paintings and engravings dating back to 27 to 19...
I have no idea at all why your coin looks like silver. Maybe due to some natural chemical process? Or a modern surface silvering by electrolysis?...
LOL. Corruption is a plague. I was first very surprised such a story could have happened in the Smithsonian, were employees are paid decent living...
Yes, of course the news of Laetus' victory was convenient and may have provided an official motive, but I am convinced that each imperatorial...
When the hoard has been studied and published, the inventor can legally keep a part of it for himself if he wants. Especially with this kind of...
Why not report them? 1) There are still good citizens, honest and law abiding people. 2) If the inventor is not himself a coin expert, he has no...
The adventus coin was minted when Severus came back from Gaul where he had crushed his opponent Albinus and was acclaimed Imperator for the 8th...
Septimius Severus entered Rome several times during his carreer as Augustus. His first entry was in 193 during the "expeditio urbana". It is...
Isn't this bird just an eagle-tipped sceptre?
The rev. legend is ADVENTVS AVGG, so there must be two Augusti entering Rome. Philip Jr was only Caesar in 244-247, he was promoted to the rank of...
[ATTACH] Septimius Severus, sestertius, 27-29 mm, 20.56 g. It is extremely worn, nearly all legends have been rubbed off, but I like its patina....
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