Are you sure this coin is authentic?
I have been lately trying to ID this bronze coin [ATTACH] Byblos - Julia Domna (193 - 217). AE 24-25 mm, 7.84 g, 1 h. Obv.: ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΔΟΜΝΑ CЄ(B?),...
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Yes, I'm proud of that one. Very rare medallic sestertius, despite the crude flan.[ATTACH]
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I'm so sorry, but I dont' know much about these Turcoman coins... I have no catalogue or reference. I remember I looked for a similar one in...
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Yes, this monetary type is thought to be copied from hellenistic tetradrachms of Perge, Pamphilia. [ATTACH]
I have only two solidi [ATTACH] Valentinian I, Constantinople [ATTACH] Theodosius II, Constantinople
This is a Trajan Arabia drachm. They were believed minted in Caesarea of Cappadocia, and in the 1970s Kindler attributed them to Bostra, Arabia....
[ATTACH] NABATAEA. Aretas IV (c. 9/8 BC-AD 40), with Shaqilath I. Petra, AD 16-40. AE 15-18 mm, 1.66 g. Obv. Aretas, in military attire,...
Large silver coins were in favor in 17th-18th c. Europe. 39 mm is the size of a French Louis XIV silver écu, for example.
[ATTACH] Nemausus (Nîmes, France), dupondius. AE 27 mm, 13.20 g, 2 h. Obv.: IMP DIVI F P P, inscription above and below heads of Agrippa laureate...
This is just a very modest AE drachm from Alexandria I am sharing here. It is very worn, not rare, has nothing exceptional, but I like the...
They weren't playing by the rules and made millions from laundering looted antiquities, deliberately erasing all the metadata. What about Athena...
I don't know if they included, in their exhibition, this wooden figure-head I saw last summer at the BM. It was found in Belgium. At first sight,...
In Orient the aurei were called in Greek "denarioi", the silver denarii were called "drachms". This why even today in Arabic a gold coin is a...
[ATTACH] Lead sling bullet. Pb 45 mm, 63,43 g. I found it many years ago in Paris at the Marché aux Puces. Unfortunately I don't know its...
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