Great coins, great pieces of history. [ATTACH] My friends (not my pictures): [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Any Zenobias out there?
(Note: This is an edited version of something I wrote a few years back for a site dealing with history.) Marie Louise (or Maria Luigia), the...
[ATTACH] Not much job security in the Roman Empire being a usurper ... or a rebel.
Good point. This list from Wikipedia is surprisingly thorough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_usurpers
I am sure many people have read this recent article: It is possible that Silbannacus belongs to this murky episode in Roman history [during the...
Still one of the best sites for beginners to attribute LRBC: http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/home.htm
Great coin. And great piece of history. That said, the part about Marius being a "humble blacksmith" is probably just myth. This story came from...
Nice review on medieval coins, also: [MEDIA]
In some places this French clip is very entertaining and even educational. In others, it is god awful. Since we have many newer members to this...
So sad. A young man and theological student, working to care for the wounded, was among the millions of innocent young men killed in such a...
Just a little more PAX from an ill-fated emperor: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] (My coin, not my picture.) [MEDIA] guy
With the insanity of the upcoming US elections, let's hope for PAX. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=pax This fellow...
I , for one, appreciate the passion of everyone on this thread. That said, let's please be respectful. I've seen too many people run off of...
The Ancient sub-forum did it: They surpassed the World Coin sub-forum in the number of messages (158,205 to 157,559). Error coins is next...
I've been watching the Ancient coin forum messages. Ancients have 155,109 messages as of today and the World coin forum has 156,916. Soon, the...
What an educational thread. Here's a similar thread from last year. Always good to review this little-known part of ancient history. I wrote a...
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