Dear friends of ancient mythology! I have always tried to find out the historical and mythological background of the coins in my collection....
Dear friends of ancient mythology! We have already encountered the genius cucullatus in the article "Some reflections on the boy between...
Caracalla, RIC 253 var. (has head l.) [ATTACH] Asklepios with Telesphoros Jochen
This article is dedicated to Pat Lawrence who has teached me so much. Dear friends of ancient mythology! I want to confess at the beginning: I...
@DonnaML Beautiful pictures and what a wonderful aureus, matching the peaceful reign of Antoninus Pius! Thanks for showing Jochen
Dear friends of ancient Mythology! Hades, Ploutos, Pluto, Pluton and then Serapis are an almost inextricable group of underworld gods. Here I...
I want to inform you, that Tom Mullally has solved the mystery in Forum Ancient Coins. It was a reading error. It should have been noticeable...
A correction: The Genitivus of APXWN ist APXONTOC. So the legend has to be corrected to [EΠI IOVΛIAN - OV] - T..A. - A.B.APX[ONTOC]! Thank you Jochen
Interesting observation! I can add: Whereas AΓXIAΛEΩN and ANXIAΛEΩN occur rather randomly, I have seen at Wildwinds that in connection with the...
You are right. It is a double die match. Rev.: Dionysus, in long clothing, holding thyrsos in his left arm, his right elbow resting on the...
Desr friends of ancitént coins! In my collection I have a nice coin from Maionia, which shows Dionysus in a centaur biga. Unfortunately, it is...
What do you mean with "A prince crowned by the gods"? Jochen
Dear friends of ancient mythology! The beautiful image of death as the brother of sleep already occurs in Homer's Iliad, where death is described...
Thank you so much! Jochen
Dear friends of ancient coins! I have this coin in my collection. The pedigree is: ex M&M AG Auktion 38, Basel 6./7.12.1968, coll. Dr. August...
I thought that carbonaceus chondrites have been formed in the Solar system and gold is presolar. Jochen
Dear friends of ancient mythology! The myth of Perseus is well-known. Here is a rare coin showing him together with Diktys, who saved him and his...
This is a picture of 1g Rheingold, gold of the river Rhine. It comes from the supernova explosion (or an equal event) from which our solar system...
Dear friends of ancient history! Reading your posts about Gadara I remember that I have an older article that is worth to share with you. The...
@DonnaML I don't know how many festivals the Romans celebrated every year. There must have been a great many. But it was not the case that the...
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