[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Two of them, as found... Antoniniani from the Rome mint, c. 267-268. Officina A : SOLI CONS AVG, Pegasus jumping right...
Thank you ! What a precious post... I think I'll read many of your links with the greatest attention. I didn't know there were printed auction...
I would not believe it if you said the college library kept the Playboys in the open access section... One day I had to go by car to a country...
After people passed away, their relatives and heirs often have the sad duty to empty their houses, sometimes share between them some family...
[ATTACH] On this sestertius of Trajan, rev. legend REX PARTHIS DATVS, one can see the personification of Parthia kneeling, and receiving from...
It is an AE 14-15mm of Geta, minted at Nicaea. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11349537
The archaeologist in charge of the Dura Europos excavations before 2011 thought he had localized it, but wouldn't say where. Nobody else has...
Nice. Il already posted it but I can't resist [ATTACH] Commodus, AE sestertius, 31-34 mm, 21.50 g., 6 h. Obv.: L AELIVS AVRELIVS COMMODVS AVG...
And this is the last Caesar. I think this German emperor, who abdicated in 1918, was the very last one to claim the title of Caesar (spelled in...
According to Ammian, the emperor Julian in 363 marched with his army on the right bank of the Euphrates, leaving Circesium (Busayra), crossing the...
It is a denarius of L. Manlius Torquatus, minted in the name of Sulla in 82 BC. It had been circulating for 160 years. [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Mother and son on an Aes of Marcianopolis...
Elephants appeared on Greek coinage in the late 4th c. BC, on the famous large 5 shekels silver coins of Alexander, minted in Babylon c. 337 BC....
[ATTACH] CILICIA, Aegeae. Valerian I. 253-260 AD. Æ 27mm. Obv.: AV KAI ΠOV ΛIKI OVAΛEPIANOC CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right,...
My "best ugliest" Roman coin is this dupondius of Galba : [ATTACH] Wonderful portrait with dark green smooth patina, but........
Is this late 18th c. statue of Fabius "cunctator" appropriate? The dictator is represented as a very young man, a teenager, but Q. Fabius Maximus...
Matidia Augusta divae Marcianae f(ilia) : "Matidia Augusta, daughter of the divine Marciana". She was Trajan's niece and Hadrian's mother in law....
[ATTACH] Byzantine follis, anonymous class C, Constantinople 1034-1041 Obv.: + EMMANOVHΛ , 3/4 length figure of Christ standing (icon of the...
Very nice follis ! I like them. Your follis is one of the finest I have seen. [ATTACH] My specimen is very far from that. But I like it for its...
I just have the pics but I don't have the coins near me at present (I'm travelling). I can just post the pictures. [ATTACH] Tiberius, Antioch,...
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