[ATTACH] Another Elymais drachm
[ATTACH] Nero Drusus sestertius. [ATTACH] Nerva sestertius [ATTACH] Trajan sestertius
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[ATTACH] Justinian, half-follis of Theoupolis (Antioch)
If some day you visit Provins, don't miss the vultures show !... [ATTACH]
I think "stater" means "standard unit". Of course it is not the same in all cities. It's like the dollar today : a US dollar is not a Canadian...
Early Nabataean. The types are copied from Alexander the Great's gold staters. A good article on these coins : https://www.jstor.org/stable/42667225
In the 16th-19th centuries ancient statues and vases were restored this way. When you look at famous Greek statues in the Louvre or the Vatican...
There was never a Palmyrene Empire. Odaenathus (Zenobia's husband and Vaballathus' father) never claimed to be an emperor. He had the titles of...
In the 16th - 19th c. Europe, most of the Roman coins found as stray finds or in hoards had little or no value. But they could be shipped to...
The legends are incredibly blundered.
It resembles very much Price P47, a drachm of Philip III Arrhidaeus, 323-319 BC, minted in Colophon, Ionia.
[ATTACH] What is the curious belt Sol seems to be wearing on antoniniani of Postumus and Victorinus ?
could be - nice as.
another one with Concordia seated left [ATTACH]
outstanding !
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the letter [ATTACH] mem below the head of horse is the initial of [ATTACH] MHNT, which means 'the camp". This coin was minted for the soldiers' pay.
It's Arab, but not Islamic.
it is an hemidrachm (half-drachma) of Parion, 4th c. BC, an ancient Greek city that is now the Turkish village of Kemer on the South coast of the...
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