I saw this meme on reddit, and decided to add something extra! [ATTACH] The Cheras of Kongu clan from Karur, depicting bow and arrow...
This is my first 2021 purchase that I got in the first week of January. A budget Danube Celtic imitative tetradrachm for 30 bucks! [ATTACH]
Or that's what I believe it would've smelled! I just recieved this packet of frankincense today, the incense itself smells kinda floral/fruity,...
I would say most of Augustus coins, which portrays him as an young man, but in reality he reigned until 75!
Aurelian! If not for him, the Roman Empire would’ve never seen the light of the 4th century, let alone the 1000 more years of Byzantine empire,...
I have seen this movie around the time when it was released! the main reason why I got interested in Mughal kingdom! I usually don't go out of my...
These coins are the closest I got to Caesar. His friend Antony [ATTACH] His (adoptive) son Augustus, this coin conveniently also features a dagger...
Akbar Dam of Ajmer mint, Mughal kingdom,1586. 19mm, 20.45g! One of my favorite emperor, this is also my first coin from that kingdom and looking...
I'd be afraid of losing it!
Menander I Soter, 155-130 BC, Bopearachchi 16C.[ATTACH] next, bilingual Roman coin
BANAS of MADURAI: Samarakolakalan Copper jital, running Garuda (half-human/half-eagle), the name in Tamil on the obverse. 1300-1500s. [ATTACH]...
Specifically Roman Imperial coins. From my understanding the republican coins were issued by moneyer and generals who wanted to show their own...
I've only ever bought coins from online retails and ebay auctions, but never from an actual auction house, so to get a taste of what it's like I...
A late Roman/Byzantine gold!
Valentinian I 364-375 AD. Siscia Mint. Gloria Romanorum with Chi-Rho reverse. Can anyone tell me the meaning of the letter D on the field?...
My guess is that they kept the same obverse die and rotated different reverse dies? so Nero's face has gotten more crude over time while whoever...
What is a plate coin?
I don’t have a copper coin from sea, but I do have an Early Chola era (~100-200 AD) copper coin picked out from a river bed (not by me), as the...
A scyphate coin of the pre-Islamic Himyarite kingdom of modern-day Yemen, ~1st century AD. They were famous for trading myrrh and frankincense...
Yaudheya republic, circa 200-300 AD. Hindu god of war Kartikeya, holding spear and rooster with the Brahmi script saying 'Yaudheya Ganasya Jaya'...
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