[ATTACH] On my modest antoninianus, they're looking in opposite directions.
Of course every word has multiple meanings according to context. I am convinced that associated with Augustus or an emperor's name, and on an...
[ATTACH] An indulgentia was forgiveness of a tax liability. There is an edict of Caracalla, dated 216, found in Banasa (today in Morocco),...
4th century CE : [ATTACH] Valens, AR siliqua, Trier Next up : another 4th c. CE silver coin
There have been many coins minted in Rome for circulation in Orient. Under Trajan, the debased silver "tridrachms" (actually low-standard...
[ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, Rome, denarius Obv.: ANTONINVS AVG. PIVS P.P., laureate bust right Rev.: TEMPLVM DIVI AVG. REST. / COS. IIII, front-view...
I just have this Claudius, a dupondius with Ceres : [ATTACH] and this Nero Drusus sestertius, with Claudius seated on a curule chair : [ATTACH]
I even have Romulus Augustulus' own signet ring : [ATTACH] But of course it is a late 18th or early 19th c. probably Italian forgery... :smuggrin:
[ATTACH] Aelia Flacilla (wife of Theodosius I), AE2 of Constantinople. Reverse: Victory writing ☧ on shield Next : a coin of one of her children
[ATTACH] Mesopotamia, Carrhae (Harran, Turkey), Severus alexander, AE 23 mm Obv.: [... AΛEΞ]ANΔP[OC...] , laureate and draped bust left, holding...
[ATTACH] Arcadius, AE3, Antioch Next : an earlier emperor carrying spear and shield
Why do you think they are imitations? They look very much like genuine Attic owls of the early 4th c. BC.
Beautiful barbarous imitation. The die engraver was illiterate and could not read Latin...
I love this mixture of Greek and Latin. The legend is Greek, but phonetically written in Latin letters, except for the θ which is a Greek...
[ATTACH] Small AE coin minted under Nero, year 105 = 56/7 AD Obv.: ANTIOXEΩN, Turreted and veiled bust of Tyche right. Rev.: EΠI KOYAΔPATOY, Ram...
[ATTACH] Elymais, Kamnaskires VI (late 1st - 2nd c. AD), Seleucia on the Hedyphon, billon tetradrachm. Obv.: No legend. Diademed bust left, in...
[ATTACH] Octavianus (he is not called Augustus yet) standing left, holding transverse spear and extending right arm, on a denarius of 32-31 BC....
[ATTACH] Claudius, Sidon, 51-52 AD rev.: ΣIΔΩNOΣ , Europe riding the Bull right. Date : BΞP : year 162 = 51-52 AD. In mythology, Europe was a...
Two warriors fighting over a fallen warrior is a very ancient theme. It existed since the Bronze Age. We find it on a 15th c. BC Mycenian intaglio...
[ATTACH] A sestertius with Fecunditas... She had 13 kids !!! She could have deserved a prize.
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