Nobody here has a Paphos or a Koinon of Cyprus coin showing the baetyl in its shrine? It's fantastic to compare the baetyl as figured on coins...
I saw Goscinny and Uderzo too, in 1966 or 67, and had a dedicace (but a mere dedicace) on my copy of Asterix and the Normans. When in UK I bought...
Thoughts and prayers for your comics collection of the 1960s... The same thing happened to my mom, who when a child had the almost whole...
Awesome...
Just wonderful, insanely wonderful... The Bilal is outstanding. And you have 12 000 of them ! ?! That's a library. Do you have also Mouminoux AKA...
!!! :wideyed: with Tardi, one of the greatest! and with an original plate by him that remained unpublished !!! it's insane. I cannot even dream...
[ATTACH]An Alexander tetradrachm, Tyre (Price thought it was Akko mint, but later research established it was Tyre). Regnal Year 24 of Azemilkos...
I should leave it alone, like it is. The malachite does not obliterate the legend or the type. It's an almost 2000 years old coin !
[ATTACH] My Justin I follis is from Nicomedia ... but I also have a half-follis from Constantinople: [ATTACH]
In fact this is not a temple, it represents the niche which was in the interior of a temple and was its focal point, the most sacred place. These...
The Christians already called Jerusalem in Greek "Η ΑΓΙΑ ΠΟΛΙC ΙЄΡΟΥCΑ[ΛEM]" (the Holy City Jerusalem) in the 6th c, as you can see on this...
[ATTACH] "Apolloni Sancto"... That's not classical Latin! AE 15 mm, Antioch, c. 310-313. Next up: the Tyche of Antioch with Orontes swimming at...
Most Athenian tetradrachms known today come from hoards, some of them enormous (in Egypt it is often 1000s of coins). In "Le monnayage d'argent...
[ATTACH] AR drachm of Philip III Arrhidaeus. Next up : a coin with graffito
This coin is not at all of Jerusalem, it is a coin of Caesarea Maritima, Sofaer Caesarea 52. Your coin could be the same one!
[ATTACH] Tetradrachm of Side, Pamphylia Next up : Athena
Are you sure it is? Since 622 there have been many images in Islamic art, including images of the Prophet. Presently the Sunni orthodoxy is that...
Athenian owls and Nemausus crocodiles are very common, yes. But coins with portraits of Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra are much rarer, let's...
Unless you can read the exergue or reverse legend, it is very difficult to attribute these c.20 mm bronze coins with a Tychaion reverse to a city...
I find these Ailiya fulus fascinating. First, the name of the city: ايليا فلستين , Ailiya Filastin... This is the Latin name Aelia Palaestinae, or...
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