I don't think it's supposed to be French. it's Latin. AC : Ante Christum (Before Christ). AD : Anno Domini (Year of the Lord).
[ATTACH] Arcadius, AE4, Alexandria. I don't remember the module, something like 11 mm Obv.: D N ARCADIVS P F AVG, diademed bust right Rev.:...
I admit 4 x 6 meters is a challenge, if one likes to hang it in his house. We had the same kind of problem, with a smaller painting, just c. 3.5...
Let's share my very small Ptolemaic collection [ATTACH] Ptolemy II Philadelphos (285-246 BC). Alexandria. AE Hemiobol, 24 mm, 10.18 g. Obv.: Head...
"Trophy tableau" monuments are a very interesting conventional iconography. During the late republican and the imperial period, the bound captives...
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I don't think the portrait looks like Pompey Magnus. It's not his hairstyle. [ATTACH]
More hair? [ATTACH] What about Shapur I's hairdo? Knowing that the veiled globe on top of his head is filled with hair, too? We can also...
Very bizarre... It's the reverse of a denarius of Clodius albinus, OK, but the obverse looks like a forged denarius of Aelius Caesar. Are you sure...
It is incredible that an exceptional never seen before gold medallion of Diocletian can legally be auctioned in a civilized country without any...
My only "tribute penny" is 1) fourrée 2) holed I don't know if it has been holed on purpose, in order to withdraw it from circulation, because it...
[ATTACH] Titus denarius with a banker's mark (or was it in conformity with the ISO technical standard?) Next up : Banker's mark or countermark
[ATTACH] This antoninianus of Antioch has absolutely nothing special. Its'not rare at all, it is not in silver, or even billon, and if it may have...
Of course it's an owl. Minerva's owl. Like on Attic coins since the 6th c. BC...
This summer I've been hiking along Hadrian's Wall in North England, from Wallsend (East of Newcastle) to Bowness-on-Solway (that's West of...
[ATTACH]France, Béarn (Lordship). Anonymous AR Denier, in the name of Centulle, count of Bearn, Morlaàs mint, 1080-1250. Obv.: CENTVLLO COME,...
[ATTACH] DIVVS ANTONINVS, sestertius. Rev. DIVO PIO / SC, altar with door closed. Next : another emperor or empress consecratio issue
These drachms were surely not minted in Bostra: the Bostra mint started under Antoninus Pius and issued bronze civic coinage only. These "Arabia...
Nobody is playing that game any more? I just attempt to restart it [ATTACH] Maximian Herculius, follis, Rome mint Obv.: IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F...
[ATTACH] Already posted it, but this sestertius is the only Faustina I I have.
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