Just imagine some jerk had been there before the archaeologists with his g*ddam metal detector... No coins, no clue...
Silver Roman coins weren't just dropped at random in the open fields. If one finds three Roman denarii in the same day, it means he was using his...
[ATTACH] Augustus, Antioch, AE 21-23 mm, 8.71 g, 5-4 BC Obv.: ΚΑΙΣ[ΑΡΙ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΩ] ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙ, laur. head of Augustus right Rev.: ΑΡΧΙΕ/ΡΑΤΙΚΟΝ/...
[ATTACH] It's one of the last ancient coins I acquired, recently. I have another one, too : [ATTACH] Septimius Severus, AE sestertius (Rome,...
I don't understand : what is this supposed to be?
These 40 or 80 drachmas AE coins of Cleopatra almost always come in very worn and corroded condition. [ATTACH] This one (not my coin) was found...
[ATTACH] Anastasius (491-518), AE nummus Next : Another late Roman / Byzantine AE nummus, 10 mm or less.
[ATTACH] Sabina, wife of Hadrian, on a much-circulated denarius I bought in the Middle East [ATTACH] Faustina I, the deceased wife of Antoninus...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Two of them, as found... Antoniniani from the Rome mint, c. 267-268. Officina A : SOLI CONS AVG, Pegasus jumping right...
Thank you ! What a precious post... I think I'll read many of your links with the greatest attention. I didn't know there were printed auction...
I would not believe it if you said the college library kept the Playboys in the open access section... One day I had to go by car to a country...
After people passed away, their relatives and heirs often have the sad duty to empty their houses, sometimes share between them some family...
[ATTACH] On this sestertius of Trajan, rev. legend REX PARTHIS DATVS, one can see the personification of Parthia kneeling, and receiving from...
It is an AE 14-15mm of Geta, minted at Nicaea. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11349537
The archaeologist in charge of the Dura Europos excavations before 2011 thought he had localized it, but wouldn't say where. Nobody else has...
Nice. Il already posted it but I can't resist [ATTACH] Commodus, AE sestertius, 31-34 mm, 21.50 g., 6 h. Obv.: L AELIVS AVRELIVS COMMODVS AVG...
And this is the last Caesar. I think this German emperor, who abdicated in 1918, was the very last one to claim the title of Caesar (spelled in...
According to Ammian, the emperor Julian in 363 marched with his army on the right bank of the Euphrates, leaving Circesium (Busayra), crossing the...
It is a denarius of L. Manlius Torquatus, minted in the name of Sulla in 82 BC. It had been circulating for 160 years. [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Mother and son on an Aes of Marcianopolis...
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