I too am fond of comics. I cannot say I collect them, which would not be true, but I have really many of them, only European comics of the golden...
Many things have been posted on this board about the so-called Tyche of Antioch. Antioch on the Orontes was a Greek city founded by Seleukos I...
Nero is listed by RPC as from Prusa ad Olympum https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2019
[ATTACH] A follis of Constantine interesting because of its provenance. Constantine I the Great, follis, AE 20mm, 2.77 g, 321-324. Obv.:...
I voted the same
[ATTACH] Another rare Commodus, and also very cheap. I don't remember the exact price but I could easily afford it when I was a teenager, with a...
[ATTACH] The rev. legend is Pietas but the allegory is Fecunditas with 4 babies, the same as on the Faustina II sestertius... Why did they chose...
[ATTACH] Just a little antoninianus...
Or he lost it playing dice...
Sorry to disappoint you but this did not happen : it is a posthumous tetradrachm of Alexander. It was more probably given to some young Greek...
[ATTACH] I have already posted this coin, but I like this elegant vase. Lepton (or prutah) of the Jewish rebels, first revolt, dated year 2....
Roman cuisine looked much like today's middle eastern cuisine (Turkish or Lebanese for ex.) : an accumulation of "mezze". They did not follow the...
I remember when I was visiting South Syria with my GF. We visited Bosra and slept at the youth hostel built on top of a tower of the Roman theatre...
In the 1980s I read a book about Libya by a named Pierre Rossi, "La verte Libye de Kadhafi". Of course it is mere Kadhafi propaganda (but it was...
I am still not at all convinced this coin shows an allegory of Liberty. And it would be too long if we discussed the exact meaning of Eleutheria...
In fact this coin (which is unique) is no longer attributed to Bostra. It is a coin of Botrys in Phoenicia, and there are no camels : the rev....
Is this goddess seated on a rock and tramping on a tuna-fish a personification of Liberty, or of a city called Eleutheria or Eleutherion? In the...
Very interesting, I am presently working on Bostra coinage. I am convinced that the civic coinage of this city only started under Antoninus Pius....
It seems that since ancient times there is a rule about who may be portrayed on coins: only gods or kings (whose authority must be considered of...
Yes, there is even worse ! My favourite blunder are antoniniani of young Gordian III, minted in Antioch in 238/9, on which they confused Libertas...
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