Ulpian, Digest [50.15.1.3]: There is also the colony of Laodicea, in Coele Syria, to which also the divine Severus granted the Italian Law on...
Yes, many anonymous folles have been found in Antioch See Princeton online coin database for example :...
[ATTACH] Pamphylia, Side, AR tetradrachm, c. 200 BC Obv.: Head of Athena r., wearing triple crested Attic helmet. Rev.: Nike flying l., holding...
Julia Domna, Emesa, AE 24 mm [ATTACH] Obv.: IOV[ΛIA] ΔOMNA [AVΓ]. , bust of Julia Domna right Rev.: [EMICΩ]N KOΛΩNIAC / ZKΦ : year 527 sel. =...
Nazi Germany was a legitimate state. The nazi government came from regular elections. Nazi Germany had business and diplomatic relations with all...
That's a recurrent problem with the hoards that have been dispersed and have not been examined by scholars: you rely on witnesses only. But you...
Anybody tried to swallow them before going to the airport and ... when at home?
[ATTACH] Augustus, As of Lugdunum, AE 23-25 mm, 11.03 g
[ATTACH] In 1958, in Paris, a collector met with Jean Lafaurie, a numismatic scholar. He wanted to show him a hoard of 41 Roman gold coins (35...
Fried eggs and bacon for breakfast are a major contribution of Great Britain to civilization. But just thinking of the industrial reddish sweet...
It happened in Europe too, in the same period. Cash coins were bronze coins of little value (see how many are needed to pay for a meal). There is...
According to the Chronica Urbis Romae, Severus Alexander gave the urban plebs a congiarium of 600 denarii for each citizen. That's quite a sum....
That's an old topic, but I could have joined the club and posted my own Lucius Verus handshake sestertius : [ATTACH]
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Of course yes. These legionary coins have been hoarded along with other denarii. They were accepted everywhere.
The comments in the first paragraph on anti-Western prejudices are off-topic and deprive this little text of all credibility. What is important in...
[ATTACH] Syria, Leucas on the Chrysorrhoas (AKA Balanea), Septimius Severus, AE 20 mm, 6.40 g Obv.: illegible legend (?), laureate head of...
I am impressed by @Bing's collection... It's like the whole Mark Anthony's army was parading before our very eyes. But well... Call me a killjoy,...
I love this sestertius, not only for its nice patina or its impressive portrait of Septimius Severus. I love it for its reverse : it's not only...
[ATTACH] That's not a coin. It's the pumpkin I carved two days ago for Halloween.
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