[IMG] From Wikipedia: Originally known as Pityusa or Pityussa, it was colonized from Phocaea and Miletus. During the 6th and 5th century BC,...
[ATTACH] ACHAEMENID EMPIRE AR Siglos OBVERSE: Persian king or hero in kneeling/running stance right, holding spear and bow REVERSE: Incuse punch...
Interesting and nice coins. [ATTACH] LOWER DANUBE CELTS AR Drachm OBVERSE: Stylized head of Herakles with wild hair, right REVERSE: Stylized...
Happy birthday @svessien [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] TRAJAN DECIUS AR Antoninianus OBVERSE: IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG - Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust...
You are absolutely correct -- once you get around all the quadrigas and such.
Really? I thought everyone was tired of seeing it. There for a while I seemed to be posting it all too often.
[ATTACH] MARCUS ANTONIUS AR Denarius OBVERSE: ANT AVG III VIR R P C, Praetorian galley, thyrsos behind prow...
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The reverse on the last coin you posted @Roman Collector put me in the mind of one of the tobacco barns back home (minus the roof decorations)
[ATTACH] TACITUS Antoninianus OBVERSE: IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right REVERSE: CLEMENTIA TEMP, Tacitus...
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Rest assured, you have. I looked up the meaning of antepenult using my external brain when I first saw it in this thread. It's not a word I will...
A day is never a waste if one can learn something new. This is a new one on me. Where I have been all these years (under a rock I presume).
Nice coin; but that is a fiddle she is holding (a rather large fiddle) [ATTACH] L PROCILIUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS PROCILIA AR Denarius OBVERSE:...
Oh, I've looked up the pronunciation in the past, but I just can't look at the name and pronounce it correctly. I guess my brain is not wired...
I have more trouble with the proper pronunciation of names like Elagabalus
As Albert Einstein put it: “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what then is an empty desk?
Separate names with a comma.
