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I don't think we should consider the turban as a typical Arab, Turkish or, generally speaking, Muslim headgear. And Antioch was probably not a...
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[ATTACH] AEL. FLACCILLA AVG. SALVS REIPVBLICAE , victory seated right inscribing christogram on a shield ; exergue CONA (Constantinople) Aelia...
Probably Seleucid. Could it be not a coin but a weight?
With your metal dectector, by removing all these nails, you just wiped off all traces of something or some things made of wooden boards.
A simple hypothesis : You should search Lampsacus, c. 4th c. BC... Your last coin has the Persian emperor on obv. (as on sigloi) and ΛAM on...
[ATTACH] (Nothing personal, you weren't born yet... ;). Congrats for this extraordinary gold collection... )
I don't think so. In Latin, peregrinus means foreigner. In the early Roman Empire there were two kinds of people, the cives Romani (Roman...
[ATTACH] Obv.: CAESAR AV[G. PONT. MAX. T]RIBVNIC. POTEST., bare head right. Rev.: L. SVRDINVS [III VIR] A.A.A.F.F. around large SC. Moneyer :...
Four years ago, on 14.01.2020, a very strange coin was auctioned in New York by CNG: an aureus of Aurelian and Vabalathus. [ATTACH] AV 17 mm,...
What? When still a kid in the late eighties you bought from Claude Burgan this very decent owl ? How many golf courses did you mow before you...
Price 1967, minted at Magnesia on the Maeander in 319-305 BC. It's posthumous, of course, like most of the Alexanders on which Zeus' legs are crossed.
[ATTACH] Sidon (Phoenicia). AE minted under Claudius in AD 51/2. Europa riding the bull...
Obverse and reverse of two different coins.
Of course there are kneeling captives! I am sorry I was not clear enough: the client-kings or nations recognized as "friends of the Roman People"...
Thanks for the article, it's very interesting for me (I was just working on the Rex Aretas reverse, compared with the Arabia adquisita reverses of...
Yes, there is such a big difference between Arsacid and Sassanid rock reliefs that it is obvious a new art school emerged in Persia as soon as...
Coin 1, Ayyubid fals, 13th c. according to the calligraphy Coin 2 Ummayyad fals (probably Syria, 8th c. AD) Both are upside-down. Here they are :...
Knowing that I like ancient coins, my colleagues (good friends indeed, i was moved) just offered me a scarce Gaulish coin, a nice one. It's a coin...
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