[ATTACH] Severus Alexander, sestertius. AE 30 mm, 14.64 g, 12 h. Rome, 232. Obv. : IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust...
It is a silver coin that seems to be much scarcer than generally said. [ATTACH] Marcus Porcius Cato the younger, quinarius, Africa (?) 47/6 BC....
Alexander the Great wearing Herakles' lion skin is a familiar monetary type, approved by Alexander himself. I like his elephant skin too. I don't...
Nemausus, today Nîmes, was a Roman city. Nemausus was made by Augustus a Roman colony to settle veterans of the Actium war. This is why it minted...
[ATTACH] AE 19 mm, 3.05 g This is what I think I could decipher, but I am not sure at all... : Obv.: head of veiled and turreted Tyche to right...
The Seleucid Kingdom is a most interesting topic in the general history of the Middle East. It was formally founded in 312 BCE, extended from...
[ATTACH] AE 19 mm, 5.61 g, 12 h. Obv.: head of a young diademed king to right The standing deity on rev. holds what is obviously a sceptre...
The emperor Titus' personal propaganda was mostly based upon his victory against the Jews. Many coins celebrating this achievement were minted in...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] These coins of the « Gallic Empire » of the 260s were a shock for me when I was a child. I don’t know why...
Jean de La Bruyère was a French moralist of the late 17th century. In 1688 he translated in French the Characters of Theophrastes, an ancient...
It's a budget sestertius, but it's one of my favourites. [ATTACH] Commodus, sestertius, Rome AD 185/6. AE 29 mm, 17.68 g, 6 h. Obv.: M COMMODVS...
[ATTACH] Geta, as, Rome 199-204. AE 25 mm, 9.97 g, 12 h. Obv.: P SEPT GETA CAES PONT (Publius Septimius Geta Caesar and Pontifex), draped and...
I have been lately trying to ID this bronze coin [ATTACH] Byblos - Julia Domna (193 - 217). AE 24-25 mm, 7.84 g, 1 h. Obv.: ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΔΟΜΝΑ CЄ(B?),...
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[ATTACH] NABATAEA. Aretas IV (c. 9/8 BC-AD 40), with Shaqilath I. Petra, AD 16-40. AE 15-18 mm, 1.66 g. Obv. Aretas, in military attire,...
This is just a very modest AE drachm from Alexandria I am sharing here. It is very worn, not rare, has nothing exceptional, but I like the...
[ATTACH] Lead sling bullet. Pb 45 mm, 63,43 g. I found it many years ago in Paris at the Marché aux Puces. Unfortunately I don't know its...
[ATTACH] Philip the Arab (AD 244-249). Æ (28mm, 14.08 g, 7h). Dated year 2 (AD 247/8). Obv.: IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, and...
My last acquisition I'd like to share here : a Ptolemaic AE30. [ATTACH] Ptolemy VI Philometor (180-145 BC), Alexandria, Faucher-Lorber series...
Two coins of young and older Julian. I like the off-centred little AE3, for its nice portrait. [ATTACH] Julian as Caesar, AE3, Alexandria,...
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