After the Roman annexation of the kingdom in 106, these selas (at least those of Rabbel II) were worth 1 Roman denarius in Arabia. Many were...
[ATTACH] Jewish prutah. Obv. : שנת שתים, "year two" (= 67/8 CE), amphora Rev.: חרות ציון, "the freedom of Zion", vine leaf [ATTACH] Titus,...
Severus Alexander and Maximinus Thrax did not mint antoniniani.
The Seleucid Kingdom is a most interesting topic in the general history of the Middle East. It was formally founded in 312 BCE, extended from...
It must be a follis or pseudo-argenteus of Licinius I (308-324 CE). The style looks like the Arelate mint (Arles, France). Here is one specimen in...
There is something funny with these Philip I bronze coins : they are extremely common, and some of them have mirror-reverses : the head of Tyche...
The same coin, but Elagabalus : [ATTACH]
From the 5th to the 10th century, this kind of monograms were very popular in all Europe, from the Byzantine Empire to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms....
STOP !!! I found it ! Yes, I was missing some obvious point : it's not Artemis but Dionysos ... It's Alexander II Zabinas, AE denomination B....
[ATTACH] AE 19 mm, 5.61 g, 12 h. Obv.: head of a young diademed king to right The standing deity on rev. holds what is obviously a sceptre...
$ 100 is way too much for most of these coins.
Coin of Neapolis (Today Nablus, in the Palestinian West Bank), minted under Philip the Arab (244-249). The photo of the obverse is too blurred for...
Nice late Roman aureus !
Some Maximini... [ATTACH] A Maximinus Caesar, from Alexandria [ATTACH] A Maximinus Augustus, from Antioch [ATTACH] and a Genio Antiocheni...
[ATTACH] Philip II as Augustus, sestertius. Rev.: LIBERALITAS AVGG III : Philip I and his son Philip II seated on curule chairs.
This purse is very interesting. This unfortunate woman carried of her money what she could take in a hurry, probably a purse. The gold is mostly...
The Book of Genesis was written in the post-exile period, c. 5th c. BC. At this time, coins were currently used in the Levant. Even if Joseph and...
please, what do you mean precisely ?
The emperor Titus' personal propaganda was mostly based upon his victory against the Jews. Many coins celebrating this achievement were minted in...
So did Xenophon. Do what he did, enlist in the PMC Ten Thousand hired by some Achaemenid Iznogoud wanting to be Great King instead of the Great King.
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