An amazing coin! Poppy: Hadrian AR Denarius 134-138 AD. Obv. Bare head right, HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P/ Rev. Four grain ears in modius with...
All wonderful coins and write-ups, @Curtisimo and the rest of you. Here are links to some of my own so-called "dissertations" from Q2 and Q3 on...
Roman Republic, C. Mamilius Limetanus, AR Serrate Denarius, 82 BCE Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Mercury right, wearing petasus with two wings,...
The story is that Hadrian adopted the full beard because he was such a Grecophile, and the Greeks prior to Alexander (unlike the Romans)...
Hadrian was was the first with a full beard, although both Nero and Titus had sort of scruffy neck beards.
Barry Murphy and David Vagi are NGC's two ancient coin experts.
If you mean me, I didn't ignore your response. Look again. And cool it with the insults. I get tired of them.
A depiction of some more ancient weapons, albeit on an Attic black-figure lekythos from ca. 525-500 BCE rather than on a coin: [IMG] [IMG]
A Faustina II sestertius: [ATTACH] A Hadrian dupondius: [ATTACH]
A tiny Ares, but Ares nonetheless: Corinth AR Stater. Circa 375-345 BC. Obv: Pegasos flying left, Q below / Rev: Helmeted head of Athena left....
I forgot to post a trident: Agrippa (d. 12 BCE), AE As, Memorial issue struck by Caligula, 37-41 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Head of Agrippa left,...
A sword used to decapitate someone: Roman Republic, M. Sergius Silus, AR Denarius, 116-115 BCE. Obv. Helmeted head of Roma right; EX S C before,...
Some examples of the great many Roman Republican coins believed to commemorate historical (or legendarily historical) events: Roman Republic,...
Perhaps Roman legends about the Kingdom, but not actual history, given that almost nothing is known, not even which kings (if any) were real...
This Trajan from Syria isn't mine, but the portrait is so remarkably ugly that I couldn't resist saving the photo when I saw it for sale:...
Thanks, @Only a Poor Old Man. I do like and appreciate Greek coinage; it's just that I would bankrupt myself if I tried to put together a...
Beautiful! I do think the eagle adds to the appeal. It seems that Series 4 was the most common.
I think it's very common for inscriptions (and other designs) on shields to be completely worn away -- presumably because of the high relief -- as...
A wonderful article. I admit that I was not previously familiar with the coin you show. Now I want one myself, of course!
The only response I can make, apart from having "liked" your comment, is to thank you for providing an answer to a question that I had had for...
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