A western Sol type paired with a Mars type, both from Trier, dating 310 to early 312: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] These seemed available enough 5 years...
Milano is a very generous theme, with many different and interesting coinages, both ancient and medieval. After the death of Luchino Visconti, who...
The city of Milan is one of the most important urban centers of Italy and has been so for the past 2000 years, while also recognized as vital for...
I wonder if investors will ever find out how great the SPQR coinage of Claudius II is. Speaking of plagues and doom. [ATTACH]
Considering the size of those rats, you'd need an undead cat to sort them out. [ATTACH]
This one is very similar to the second specimen in the OP. This is possibly the type that sees the passing of Guillaume and the instating of the...
The felines have arrived!
Maximinus II seems to have been minting some unlikely rarities during his rule in the East. One of them is this underwhelming series of IOVI...
... A good opportunity for someone to post a cat if they have one.
Very interesting specimen. I'll come back after I check my references.
Here are two bronzes from Rome with the rather specifically Italian light green-brownish patina: VRB . ROM . [...], second group cca. mid 361 -...
It's Theodore II Doukas-Lascaris of Magnesia, 1255/6, S. 2142 with Saint Tryphon on the obverse.
I don't think it's 2021, for the emperor here does not hold akakia in left hand but rather a globe surmounted by cross. The die moved, which is...
Constantine was "Maximus" probably since 315, when he celebrated his decennalia at Rome and was awarded his triumph and arch. The summer of 315 is...
Another with the "band" diadem: [ATTACH]
Would we call the early Islamic copies after the Byzantine follii "Islamic Christian" coins? Or the Danishmendid coinage with Greek legends...
Wouldn't it be better to call it a thoroughly Arab Christian coin? There were Arab Christians in the Eastern Levant during the crusades and at the...
Hi, This very touching post reminded me of Time Team's episode 5 of season 20, where wounded, traumatized and depressed veterans used archaeology...
This coin is a good example of conventions getting in the way of clarity. It's an immobilise naming a Carolingian ruler minted well into the...
Is this a field around Sirmium or somewhere in northern Serbia?
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