No, the coin shows a wreath. Slavery came later. It is never hard to find a coin worth $17.xx offered for $151. The trick is to find coins...
There are two reasons for publishing information using any medium or platform. One is to spread that information as you see it. The other is to...
This is the Herennia Etruscilla AE29 of Anazarbus showing Dionysos riding the panther. The panther was the animal of choice for this god who...
It has always been my opinion that not all reverses are equal and the OP coin is the best single Valerian if you can have just one. When it was...
I was of the opinion that the type was part of the series issued following the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius honoring several of the gods by showing...
What attracted me to these is the story behind their omission in RIC. When volume VI was published, the prevailing opinion was that the coins...
You do realize you are posting on the ancient section of Coin Talk??? All of the photos here should be ancient or at least medieval. These are...
All ancient coins have a point below which removing more material will make the coin worse rather than better. On silvered coins with a silver...
Last I heard, the entirety of SHA could be divided into two piles - truth and fiction. Truth is considered the smaller pile. The 30 tyrants...
Only a Poor Old Man showed an example of the less usual obverse with the left hand face inverted. Below is one with the eagle facing right. Most...
Excellent coins and survey. It might help those not into this history to add dates and relationships to the headers: Antiochus II Theos (The God)...
The monogram under the bow identifies this drachm of Phraates IV as from the Laodicea mint. [ATTACH] Next: a coin of a city that is NOT the most...
Tiberius has several asses. This one appealed to me due to the broad flan. [ATTACH] Next: a Provincial of Tiberius
I thought that 12 1/2 theory was now generally accepted. It only appeared from mints controlled by Licinius but there are coins from those mints...
I see as many of the Commodus lighthouse tets as most of his other types but I wonder if that is because they are common or if demand causes more...
Medoraman refers to my page on these coins. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html [IMG]
Does anyone besides me have a problem with the above ID? Mine: [ATTACH] The type comes for father and son. Which is the one shown? There is...
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I know I am in the minority preferring we stick to the original stated rules of the thread but when a log thread becomes a pile on it is hard to...
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