It sometimes happened that the Rome mint, usually issuing SC bronze coinage for circulation in Italy and the western provinces, also minted...
[ATTACH] This is a denarius of Titus (marked with some banker stamp). What could I buy with it, back then? Under Titus 1 aureus = 25 denarii =...
Philip the Arab is very common on coins, Roman and provincial, but some historians think we know very little about him. Probably it’s because he...
[ATTACH] Lead sling bullet. 37 x 21 x 14 mm, 48.49 g. On one side is a winged thunderbolt, the other side is blank. These lead slingshot...
There has been for a long time in a drawer a small tetrobol of Arados I always suspected to be a forgery. [ATTACH] Arados, AR tetrobol, 3.42 g...
[ATTACH] Has anybody ever seen such a minute coin? AE 9mm, 0.71 g. The portrait on obverse looks a little like Antoninus Pius. it is probably a...
Collecting ancient coins is one thing for mere mortals like most of us, but it's a completely different hobby when you can rely on almost...
[ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, sestertius, Rome AD 153/4. Obv.: ANTONINVS AV-G PIVS P P TR P XVII, bust of Antoninus Pius, laureate, slight drapery on...
Just saw this in my news feed : A hoard of medieval silver coins has been found in 2021 in Dunscore, Scotland, by a metal detectorist. He...
Here are three coins I bought (very cheap) in Syria when I was a teenager visiting with my parents. [ATTACH] From left to right: Lucca...
There are famous places and monuments of Antiquity people from all over the world like to visit, such as Rome, Athens, the Pyramids, Petra, etc....
I wonder if there are strict rules for telling if an ancient coin will be called rare, scarce, common... For a sirloin steak it is clear : blue...
Some inventions or innovations had to wait some time before reaching actual success. In 1900, many of the few automobiles already circulating in...
You surely understand this: people know you are interested in ancient coins, and sometimes they come and show you old coins they found or...
[ATTACH] Valerian, antoninianus, BI 20 mm, 5.00 g. Obv. : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG, radiate draped and cuir. bust right, seen from front...
[ATTACH] Commodus, AE sestertius, 31-34 mm, 21.50 g., 6 h. Obv.: L AELIVS AVRELIVS COMMODVS AVG PIVS FELIX, head of Commodus with short beard...
These are slides from a slideshow I had prepared for students. None of the coins are mine, natürlich. They show monuments or landscapes, sometimes...
Rome, Athens, Lugdunum, Alexandria are today large and crowded cities, in which you still can see remains of what they were in Antiquity. Others...
I cannot identify precisely this obol : [ATTACH] Alexander III, AR obol, AR 9 mm, 0.67 g. Obv.: head of Herakles right wearing lion-skin Rev.:...
It is a modest AE antoninianus of Gallienus: [ATTACH] Gallienus, antoninianus Obv.: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right Rev.: PROVID AVG,...
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