[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...
$ 100 is way too much for most of these coins.
Coin of Neapolis (Today Nablus, in the Palestinian West Bank), minted under Philip the Arab (244-249). The photo of the obverse is too blurred for...
Nice late Roman aureus !
Some Maximini... [ATTACH] A Maximinus Caesar, from Alexandria [ATTACH] A Maximinus Augustus, from Antioch [ATTACH] and a Genio Antiocheni...
[ATTACH] Philip II as Augustus, sestertius. Rev.: LIBERALITAS AVGG III : Philip I and his son Philip II seated on curule chairs.
This purse is very interesting. This unfortunate woman carried of her money what she could take in a hurry, probably a purse. The gold is mostly...
The Book of Genesis was written in the post-exile period, c. 5th c. BC. At this time, coins were currently used in the Levant. Even if Joseph and...
please, what do you mean precisely ?
The emperor Titus' personal propaganda was mostly based upon his victory against the Jews. Many coins celebrating this achievement were minted in...
So did Xenophon. Do what he did, enlist in the PMC Ten Thousand hired by some Achaemenid Iznogoud wanting to be Great King instead of the Great King.
Plautilla [ATTACH] She was the daughter of Caius Fulvius Plautianus, praetorian prefect and close friend of the emperor Septimius Severus. In 202...
This quarter-follis was inspired by a quadrans of Nero [ATTACH] (not my coin)
Nice follis ! I have one too, but worn and without a patina [ATTACH] 44 mm, thickness 2 mm, 21.60 g.
The two profiles are not so different, I think they are the same. And for jugate profiles, there is never a profile above the other one, they are...
The Nabataean Kingdom was not just Petra. Petra was its capital, its main religious centre and commercial hub since the late 4th c. BC, Nabataeans...
The pics are way too small to tell, smoothing possible.
[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...
[ATTACH] Malichus I, 60-30 BC. Æ 19 mm. Petra mint. Dated regnal year 27 (34/33 BC). Obv.: Diademed head right Rev.: Eagle standing left, date...
Why "but"? The Nabataean kingdom extended to Syrian territory. The city of Bostra, in South Syria, used to be the Nabataean northern capital. In...
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