very interesting coin !
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The problem with the coins acquired through auctions or from dealers is that they have no provenance - I mean the place where they have been found...
Byzantine coins mix Latin and Greek letters. This was also frequent on Oriental inscriptions since the 3rd c. AD. Try to decide if this Byz. coin...
Ascalon, no doubt. There is a little coin of Ascalon with the same reverse : https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/4874 With the male head right,...
bizarre picture. Is it the one published by the auctioneer? Why are the emperor's cheek and neck blurred?
Protecting cultural patrimony is not "bureaucracy". Looters and antiquities traffickers severely harm History by destroying archaeological sites,...
[ATTACH] Seleucia Pieria, Trajan. R/ : the conic Baetyl of Zeus Kasios under his canopy. Next : Baetyl
[ATTACH] I have no first ancient coin, I have 20 first ancient coins : a small hoard (or more likely part of a hoard) my dad gave me when I was a...
[ATTACH]This is my first sestertius. I was young at the time, and very excited to find this budget Roman coin with the emperor Commodus addressing...
Here are two photos of Saint Sophia, one I took a few years ago and a recent one picked from the ArtNews article. A few years ago, this church was...
[ATTACH] Gallienus, AE antoninianus, rev. IOVI CONS AVG, goat walking left. Next : Victorinus
Thanks ! maybe a laurel-branch (Howgego 378)...
[ATTACH] Macrinus (217-218), AR tetradrachm, Hierapolis (Mambij, Syria). Next : lion.
I wonder what can be this Antioch Trajanic countermark... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I should try to clean it better, but I didn't. Who could ID this...
[ATTACH] This is late Roman silver : a siliqua of Valens, from Trier. Next : late Roman gold
I did not clearly understand what was the problem with this forum. I have seen there had been arguments here on non-numismatic issues, and I must...
Yes, that's true! I think that the first who did it, Julius Caesar, could seem criminal because it had never been done before, it was against the...
A Flag Day? I had to ask Wikipedia for this. There is no such thing in my country, but I could see there are many others with a Flag Day: in...
[ATTACH] Hadrian, Alexandria, AE drachm : Egyptian temple, statue visible between the pylons. Next : temple
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