[ATTACH] Antioch, AE3 of 310-311 AD. GENIO ANTIOCHENI / APOLLONI SANCTO NEXT: Apollo seated
[ATTACH] Faustina II sestertius, rev. FECVN DITAS / S C NEXT : the largest ancient or medieval coin in your collection
Ancient, they say... Well, it's not so ancient, but it is African and historical - and, you know, in Africa, traditional craftsmanship looks very...
The jug looks Syrian, Roman or Byzantine period. I suppose the bracelet, if it is silver, has the same kind of Levantine provenance. Maybe it is...
[ATTACH] I had already posted it. Nero Claudius Drusus, sestertius. NEXT : curule chair
My Julia Domna is much more puritan... [ATTACH]
On the way back to Antioch, the poor Antiochus had an emergency: find money, huge amounts of money, to pay his soldiers who were all mercenaries....
It was under trees, in the early seventies, in the hills overlooking Eretria, there were stones on the path and also small pottery shards. I just...
[ATTACH] Vologases III, 107-145 AD, dirham minted in Ecbatana (Hamadan, Iran). Probably the commonest of all Parthian drachmae. NEXT : Ardashir...
A mere shard I found on the ground when hiking in Greece, in Eretria. Attic red figures pottery, 5th c. BC. The fragment represents an ephebe...
Carthage, AR 5 shekels or decadrachm (not my coin ;-) ): [ATTACH] French 2nd and 3rd Republic, AR 5 francs (not my coin also ;-) ) [ATTACH]
The Middle Ages did nothing new. In 437 BC in Athens, Cleon (a conservative politician opponent to Pericles) passed a law prohibiting defamation...
Honestly speaking, I don't know what kind of globe, celestial or terrestrial, it is. It can be celestial (Providentia is generally depicted with...
If you look carefully, it's a celestial sphere much like the one on the Brazilian flag.
Yes, this one is puzzling. Maybe it's one for which the celator confused or mixed the terrestrial and the celestial globe. Roman celators or...
Are you sure? I would say there is only one belt, and that the sphere is dotted with stars above and under this belt. It could well be celestial...
Celestial spheres are different, they have only one belt (the zodiacal belt). On the denarius of Domitia, we see that the stars are outside the...
(None of the following coins are mine!) The most fascinating of all ancient coins, for me, are these aurei and denarii of Domitian or Domitia...
This one is funny Inspired by a worn tetradrachm of Zenobia, like this one: [ATTACH] the Syrian mint printed in the 1980s SYL 100 banknotes with...
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