The official standard of the Attic tetradrachm in the 5th-4th c. BC was 17.20 g., but most coins were slightly lighter; with c. 16,5 g. The...
[ATTACH] It's a silver drachm of the Vologases III type (105-147). A long reign which was plagued in the late 110s by a catastrophe: a Roman...
[ATTACH] ANTONINVS AVG. PIVS P.P., laureate bust right TEMPLVM DIVI AVG. REST. / COS. IIII, front-view of the Temple of Divine Augustus, with 8...
I have the same one but it's his son. [ATTACH]
The burnt scrolls of Pompeii are fascinating. Some could be deciphered in the 18th and 19th c. All were Greek and many were works by Philodemus of...
Writing Roman history has been a literary exercise since the very beginning. Under the Republic the main topic of Polybius was to show how and why...
... and on these ones, 4 emperors : [ATTACH] Constans II, AE follis, Constantinople mint, 641-668 Obv.: bust of Constans II facing, holding cross...
[ATTACH] Honorius, AE 4, Antioch mint, 402-408. Obv.: D N HONORI-VS P F AVG, draped and cuirassed bust right, wearing pearl-diadem Rev.: GLORI-A...
My two heads coins... According to the initial post, it's one head on each face. [ATTACH] Septimius Severus, AE 19 mm of Edessa (Sanliurfa,...
These nice tetradrachms (Nabataean standard) were not minted in Bostra. They were more likely minted in Rome for circulation in Arabia.
Nice tetradrachm, minted in Babylon in the last year of Alexander's life. With the bee and the M in the reverse left field, it belongs to the same...
[ATTACH] I just inherited this head of smiling Buddha. Grey schist, Gandharan art, probably 2nd to 4th c. AD.
Notice that the name "Atropatene" evolved to the modern "Azerbaidjan". In the 3rd c. BC it was already neighboring Armenia.
have you a picture of the rear side? is it plain or hollow?
I wonder what kind of historical conclusions one can draw from an isolated coin. Ptolemaic gold circulated far beyond the Ptolemaic borders,...
It's an unpublished hoard but it's obviously a small hoard, or part of a larger hoard, from Southern France. AE antoniniani of Gallienus,...
This specimen was found in Gaza : [ATTACH]
This specimen was found in Gaza :
As the Pontifex Maximus, the emperor was the only person who had the right to touch or even cancel something sacred. The vestal virgins were...
Do you know its origin, where it has been found?
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