Very interesting tetradrachm of Mazakes, satrap of Mesopotamia (331-323/2). You can still read MZ[D]K (in Aramaean) on the reverse.
[ATTACH] Byzantine follis or Arab-Byzantine fals... There is a countrermark on the reverse. I know nothing about that...
This coin is not particularly rare, it is not in good condition, it's just a small bronze coin almost 1900 years old... [ATTACH] Gaza, Hadrian...
whow.
[ATTACH] Arados (Rwad, Syria) Obv. : head of Zeus right Rev. : galley ram, ShNT 115 (in Phoenician script : Year 115) = 145/144 BC. Here is...
The crocodile on reverse was one of the most famous ancient Roman coin-types, as early as the 16th c. By order of the king François I (1515-1547)...
North Africa, he said... [ATTACH] Geta as Caesar, AE as, Rome mint Obv.: P SEPT GETA CAES PONT, draped bust right Rev.: DI PATRII, Liber Pater...
Antoninus Pius, effective? Nothing happened under Antoninus Pius. He had a new wall built in Britain north of Hadrian's wall, but it was not a...
Very nice collection of African masks from Gabon, Congo, etc.! Of course they are surely not old, they seem made for collectors but by able...
[ATTACH] On this forum, I sometimes found the expression “good emperors” or “five good emperors”. According to Wikipedia, this notion was...
[ATTACH] M. Porcius Cato, AR quinarius, minted 47-46 BC in Africa. Obv: M CATO PRO PR, Ivy-wreathed head of Liber r. Rev: Victory seated r.,...
I don't think the allegory of Libertas holding the liberty cap and the vindicta has any relation with captives. It's a purely political notion,...
[ATTACH] Too bad this nice specimen (36 mm, 18.74 g) has got bronze disease !
[ATTACH] Imitation of an AE antoninianus of Tetricus. Obv.: MP C TITRICVS [...] (sic) , radiate and cuirassed bust right Rev.: FIDE MILITVM...
[ATTACH] That's my Vitellius (a denarius), much like @Bing's specimen.
The emperor currently called "Elagabalus" is often considered one of the worst emperors Rome ever had, who allegedly devoted his reign to...
All these small glass bottles were perfume bottles. They were funerary offerings and deposited in tombs, which explains why they are still intact....
I don't think it's supposed to represent muscles. The Londinium die engraver probably imagined this genius as a charioteer (auriga). Late Roman...
There are many fragments of antiquities I have collected when I was young, much younger. Only fragments, of course. Pottery shards I myself picked...
[ATTACH] Nerva (96-98), sestertius, Rome Obv.: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS II P P, laureate head right Rev.: FORTVNA AVGVST / S C, Fortuna...
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