[ATTACH] I've got one too
Of course it's not a gator :) but a Nile crocodile. The crocodile in ancient Egypt was a god called Sobek. [ATTACH] The Romans, not the Greek,...
[ATTACH] Antiochos IV Epiphanes, AE double, Tyre - dated LΘΛΡ (year 139 = 174/3 BCE). An elegant stern of galley...
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There are ancient Greek and Roman coins that represent not a whole ship but just parts of ships : the stern, the prow, even just the bronze ram of...
Two small coins of Sidon : [ATTACH] On this 5th c. BCE AR 8 mm 1/8 of shekel, we see the Persian overlord on obverse (or perhaps some male local...
[ATTACH] Sometimes in history great empires rise and fall, great peoples with former great accomplishments become a bunch of idiots. In 1734...
[ATTACH] Young Caracalla, AR denarius. Rev.: INDVLGENTIA AVGG / IN CARTH(aginem), Juno Caelestis holding sceptre and thunderbolt riding lion...
I am 80% sure this empress is Julia Domna. With a coin that is so worn, the only visible difference with Manlia Scantilla's profile is the angle...
Turreted head? She looks more like the late queen Elizabeth II.
On the side of the french motorways there are brown signs showing local places of touristic interest (monuments, nature, etc.). The places you can...
Why call them "usurpers"? The "Gallic Empire" was a breakaway empire, the result of a secession, but this kind of situation often happens in...
Is this ancient? I'd say Ottoman, 18th-19th c AD
The antoninianus was created under Caracalla, probably in 213 or 214. This coin was officially worth 2 denarii, but contained only 150% of a...
[ATTACH] My Plautilla is like @Bing's specimen, but with the reverse legend Propago Imperi.
I never had any ancient coin mounted in jewelry. But I had a nice dark green jasper intaglio with a facing bust of the emperor Romulus Augustus...
Ancient coins mounted in jewelry? Why not, after all ? In ancient times it was very common. Today it's less common. In France many gold 20 Fr...
I already posted these two coins two years ago as a reply. I'd like to repost them now as a thread, in case somebody could tell me more about...
[ATTACH] This is another unofficial Tetricus, a little smaller than official ones. Obv.: M PTITRIC[...] Rev.: FID E M I L I T V[.]
[ATTACH] Are we absolutely sure Elagabalus was that crazy teenager only devoted to silliness and debauchery? This is what is told in mainstream...
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