Great coin. Lovely history. Important date in history (Union of England and Scotland in 1707). Thank you for posting. (Here's my visitor from...
Wow. What a great coin! [ATTACH] Philip V of Spain was such an important (but forgotten) figure in history. Those of us who love that period of...
Thank you for the family tree. It's sometimes difficult to remember those less familiar emperors, especially those of the third century. Here is...
Very nice tetradrachm. Here's a friend of mine: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I think they are NGC pictures.
What beautiful examples of a very obscure Empress. Here are my (not so rare) visitors: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/tech/1601719/julius-caesar-assassination-coin-ides-of-march-brutus/ (Sorry if this is a repost) "The golden...
What a great post. Thank you. The glass making of the ancients is underappreciated. Your example above of the Lycurgus cup (which may not have...
Here is an interesting thread from 2018 on the Harzhorn battle site (including helpful videos):...
That looks like an interesting book as we sometimes forget what coinage represented to a mostly illiterate ancient world. Coins could convey...
(I'm sorry if this is a possible repost, but I couldn't find the original discussion.) I understand finding any coin hoard is exciting and the...
Kevin: Thank you for this well-written and thought-provoking post. I have a special interest in Rome's "Third Century Crisis." I think one needs...
I was a little surprised by the statement, also. As we probably all know, the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantines) always referred to themselves as...
Thank you for this very informative write-up. I always wondered why so many of this coins looked surface damaged.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Above is one of my favorite medals. This huge medal (D. 82 mm) was struck in support of Queen Caroline, the aggrieved wife of...
(Sorry if this is a repost.) Once again, numismatics has been used to help shed light on ancient history. In this case, the evidence has been...
Thank you for the thoughtful post. I'm not sure I agree with everything but I found this paragraph from the above article interesting (but...
I appreciate and enjoyed your enthusiastic and informative reply. That said, I respectfully disagree with your paragraph above. The reason for...
Great gold coin (guinea) of James II. In the last few years, I've focused my amateur studies on the "Glorious Revolution" and the intense English...
Such great examples of a more obscure empress. Mine is just a lowly Alexandrian tetradrachm. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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