Dear @lordmarcovan - establisher and benefactor of this almost viral thread. We are at another big juncture here in the history of the empire...
sorry skipped Vespasian jr. @Eduard made me do it!
Nerva. AD 96-98. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.09 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 97. Laureate head right / VEHICVLATIONE ITALIAE REMISSA, SC in exergue, two...
A link to the full true story of the details leading up to the Chanukah holiday and the establishment of the Hasmonean Dynasty that @Deacon Ray's...
Thanks for the flan info @Deacon Ray and your beautiful additions- covers a lot of the history! I thing Antigonus also had a coin with the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hasmonean Kingdom of Judea: Mattathias Antigonus AE 8 Prutot Jerusalem Mint 40-37 BCE Obverse: "Matityahu the High Priest and...
OUT OF SEQUENCE Backwards and not Imperial yet but important as a double header beginning of the legendary empire and kind of rare I...
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There are no instruments on this coin but maybe a small fraction of the material was made from the trumpets that this rulers mad evil uncle stole...
Somebody has these trumpets on reserve from Vcoins. @Deacon Ray maybe your friend at Zuzim could get you one of these?[IMG]
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love the amphorae:[ATTACH] got this for a couple bucks and then found that it is one of the very few supposed depictions of the dude Mithras...
Here is a tympanum(profile pic), like a tambourine from a Faustina jr sestertius: [ATTACH] surprised no one posted any drums or percussions yet...
Your pentagram coins @TIF like the one from Mysia(and the hemi from Thrace) also carry the sacred geometry: The branch in the center of the...
That is a beauty!
Once in a rare while I see an ancient carrying the wisdom of the number secrets behind our manifested cosmos. Rarely are those very affordable(ie....
It is worth a lot of irony in a way since Jefferson was a Theist who wrote his own version of the Bible with a set of beliefs vastly different...
You might be interested to read this short recent article on when the worst time in history may have been for some folks anyway in Eurasia- it is...
last one looks real close to this one, minted in Nicomedia by Justin II in the 6th...
The first one has a date I believe "anno" means year?
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