One leg crossed behind the other generally means posthumous issue.
So the scorpion represents the defeated desert dwelling people I suppose. Didn't notice that before. A lot of major propaganda- maybe "fake news"...
Ok- thanks John, so the image of the camel and kneeling supplicant is just a canned label used to garner popularity and maybe only tangential to...
This coin has baffled numismatists for centuries. I have a new take on it and open it up to others ideas, especially those in the biblical...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] No fakes of these on the forgery network but several legionary denarii on Ilya Prokorov's(sp?) site. None look as authentic and...
[ATTACH] The Gemini twins are the calmer of storms and so were revered by sailors. This one is by the Roman moneyer Rufus with the Lady holding...
[ATTACH] This photo(and maybe a couple others in old slides yet to be digitized)is all I have left of a crude but hefty old tetradrachm I bought...
wow- nice Janus in foreground!
I found what could be a lifetime hemi from Babylon, the very place he died. Anyone know if it was minted during or maybe just after he died there?...
[ATTACH] Julia Domna, AD 193-211 Roman AR denarius; 2.4 gm, Rome mint, AD 207 Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, r. Rev:...
You may also search your prospective coins out on these sites to see if if there are any common fakes of the types out there....
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Wow that coin could have been handled by Mevlana Jelladin Rumi or Shams y Tabrizi themselves. The timing is right and so is the place-Konya. the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [IMG] Alexander the Great : Apollo / Horse Prancing Alexander III The Great. 336-323 BC Ox: Head of Apollo right bound in tainia...
Rhea rides on the Lion,with tympanum drum) Greek Mythology, published in 1878 royalty-free stock[ATTACH]
Thank You guys for the info! - Would Hadrian have to have approved those cistophori tets or just one of his assistants? Yes she is an eastern...
Does anyone know if that Cybele reverse on the throne with drum and lion(lions) appear on any Roman coins before Hadrian? I have seen one or two...
The lituus may be a form of the crook of Osiris, power over life and knowledge of the secret of the Golden Section(phi). Hence the staff that the...
Definitely one of the most amazing and pivotal figures in human history. Surprised no one posted one of these yet. Römische Republik Ae-33...
[ATTACH]FAUSTINA II JUNIOR AE sestertius. SIDERIBUS RECEPTA(stars receive you), Faustina, as Diana, holding torch, crescent behind neck.
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