[ATTACH] Cornelia Salonina's pudicitia... AE antoninianus Obv.: COR SALONINA AVG, draped bust right wearing stephane on crescent Rev.:...
Same for me... I must have been 10 when I found some day in a drawer not my dad's gun (he never had one except when in the military) but an old...
It is true that under the Carolingian dynasty (9th-10th c.) gold coinage gradually disappeared from Western Europe. From the 10th to the mid-13th...
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...
Wonderful gold coin! From the 5th to the 8th c. the Byzantine Empire minted gold in industrial quantities, this why early Byzantine gold is often...
Livy wrote that all ancient records dating back to the earliest times were destroyed when the Gauls took and burned the city in BC 390. To write...
[ATTACH] Demetrius II Nicator, AE23, uncertain Syrian mint, 144/3 BC Obv.: Laureate head of Zeus right Rev.: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY ΘEOY ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY...
Thanks, but I like that patina... I shall never attempt to clean this dupondius. Maybe, after my death, if none of my heirs wants to keep this...
The "Sponsiani" coins have been discussed since the 18th c., some numismatists thought they were modern forgeries while others thought they were...
Poor Cleopatra! They made her look like Mark Anthony!
[ATTACH] Macrinus (tetradrachm minted at Hierapolis (Mambij)) next : Lion
Could these aurei be contemporary Indian imitations? After all, there is no real evidence they were actually found in Transylvania... [ATTACH]
(just a note about Gallienus :) Gallienus was not Augustus from 260, he was Augustus already since 253. When Valerian became emperor in 253, he...
One thing is clear and undisputed: this coin was not minted by professional Roman coin minters. It is a gross imitation of a Roman aureus....
[ATTACH]Gallienus, AE antoninianus, Rome 267/8 Obv.: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right Rev.: SOLI CONS AVG / A, Pegasus jumping right Next up:...
[ATTACH] This one from Israel
Yes it was. After all, Antioch has been the capital of the Near-East (capital of the Seleucid Kingdom, after this of the Roman Province of Syria)...
I think it is because of the Z : 7th officina. In the late 3rd c. only Antioch had so many officinas numbered in Greek.
[ATTACH] Another patinated antoninianus with the Pannoniae...
This reminds me the powerful verses of Sophocles in Trachiniae, lines 518-522. The Choir is telling the fight between Herakles and Acheloos :...
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