I've been looking for a good example of this type for several years, after becoming enthralled at it early on in building my collection of...
This coin follows after my earlier thread, The Ancient Olympics, originating from a later olympiad and depicting Zeus on the obverse, again...
This coin was minted at the site of the ancient Olympics in Elis, but was not minted for the games. Rather, it is one of the types which the...
I've always enjoyed the Olympics and it was only once I started collecting ancient coins that I learned about the ancient games and their coins....
Darics are historic coins, an important part of the chronology of numismiatics, but they often come very crudely designed. I've included one on my...
This coin is the next in my recent electrum buying binge. I'd been looking for its larger brother, a trite, for quite some time but when this...
Alexander the Great staters are popular coins but very available due to the size of their mintage, so I tend to only briefly look at them when...
While the type as a whole is relatively common, finding a nice example of the Caesar's Comet denarii proved to be very difficult. I thought I had...
I've posted this in a couple separate threads but never by itself with my write up. I had been looking for the "right" Athens tetradrachm for...
[IMG] Depending on who was in control at the time, the electrum coinage of Phokaia and Mytilene in Ionia was struck as payment to either the...
[IMG] The ancient Greek island of Lesbos was located in the northeastern Aegean Sea off the coast of modern-day Turkey. Its largest and...
[IMG] Shown with expressive and diverse imagery today, coinage started from very humble beginnings. The ancient author Herodotos wrote that “the...
[IMG] Hadrian was the third of the Five Good Emperors, reigning during the peak of Roman prosperity. His ascension to the throne was met with...
This coin is an upgrade to a previous example I owned. Lifetime tetradrachms of Philip II in the early style are hard to find and from the auction...
The primary goal of my collection is to tell our shared history through aesthetic coins. Many aspects of antiquity are represented in different...
[IMG] Unlike the Greek monetary system which was based around the value of silver and gold, the early coinage of Rome was based on bronze. The...
[IMG] Natural resources are often a source of great wealth for a country, especially its king. The Pactolus River in Lydia, now modern day...
It may seem like a strange choice to replace an EF Domitian aureus in my Twelve Caesars set with a bronze provincial coin of his but I simply...
This is a coin I've had for a while but haven't posted in a dedicated thread (and I recently re-photographed it which came out much nicer). This...
Despite the Kennedy gold fiasco, I had a very productive and successful ANA show, adding several new coins and having a great time meeting with...
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