Last Sunday I was visting a museum and I saw this picture : [ATTACH] The Vocation of Saint Matthew, by Hendrick Ter Brugghen, c. 1620. He was a...
(None of these coins are mine, it's just a draft for a paper) The one-humped camel was domesticated in Arabia in the Neolithic period and reached...
I found in an box of stray old coins this silver one: [ATTACH] AR 25 mm, 4.01 g After a quick search on AC Search, I think it is a coin of 2...
It sometimes happened that the Rome mint, usually issuing SC bronze coinage for circulation in Italy and the western provinces, also minted...
[ATTACH] This is a denarius of Titus (marked with some banker stamp). What could I buy with it, back then? Under Titus 1 aureus = 25 denarii =...
Philip the Arab is very common on coins, Roman and provincial, but some historians think we know very little about him. Probably it’s because he...
[ATTACH] Lead sling bullet. 37 x 21 x 14 mm, 48.49 g. On one side is a winged thunderbolt, the other side is blank. These lead slingshot...
There has been for a long time in a drawer a small tetrobol of Arados I always suspected to be a forgery. [ATTACH] Arados, AR tetrobol, 3.42 g...
[ATTACH] Has anybody ever seen such a minute coin? AE 9mm, 0.71 g. The portrait on obverse looks a little like Antoninus Pius. it is probably a...
Collecting ancient coins is one thing for mere mortals like most of us, but it's a completely different hobby when you can rely on almost...
[ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, sestertius, Rome AD 153/4. Obv.: ANTONINVS AV-G PIVS P P TR P XVII, bust of Antoninus Pius, laureate, slight drapery on...
Just saw this in my news feed : A hoard of medieval silver coins has been found in 2021 in Dunscore, Scotland, by a metal detectorist. He...
Here are three coins I bought (very cheap) in Syria when I was a teenager visiting with my parents. [ATTACH] From left to right: Lucca...
There are famous places and monuments of Antiquity people from all over the world like to visit, such as Rome, Athens, the Pyramids, Petra, etc....
I wonder if there are strict rules for telling if an ancient coin will be called rare, scarce, common... For a sirloin steak it is clear : blue...
Some inventions or innovations had to wait some time before reaching actual success. In 1900, many of the few automobiles already circulating in...
You surely understand this: people know you are interested in ancient coins, and sometimes they come and show you old coins they found or...
[ATTACH] Valerian, antoninianus, BI 20 mm, 5.00 g. Obv. : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG, radiate draped and cuir. bust right, seen from front...
[ATTACH] Commodus, AE sestertius, 31-34 mm, 21.50 g., 6 h. Obv.: L AELIVS AVRELIVS COMMODVS AVG PIVS FELIX, head of Commodus with short beard...
These are slides from a slideshow I had prepared for students. None of the coins are mine, natürlich. They show monuments or landscapes, sometimes...
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