[ATTACH] Denarius minted in Rome in 126 BC by the money magistrate Caius Cassius: is it the oldest known allegory of Liberty? C. Cassius,...
Excellent write-up ! Don't you think the Gloria Exercitus imitations imitate the one-standard version, rather than the two-standards?
[ATTACH] Sassanid dirham : Peroz (459-484), Goyman (Iran) mint. NEXT : an Umayyad dirham
Of course there is no material evidence for these hypotheses. The estates granted to Barbarian warlords were just a source of income, it does not...
I have seen this hacksilber hoard in an article, but cannot remember which one!
[ATTACH] Alexander III "the Great", tetradrachm (posthumous), Sardis 319-315 BC (Price 2664). NEXT : non-Alexander Herakles obverse.
I agree with you, these coins must have been found together, and the older and bigger Soli Invicto Comiti follis must have circulated together...
[ATTACH] This one was a difficult one! After I concluded that the rev. legend could not be other than SALVS AVG, I had to investigate to find...
There are several towns, villages or just places in the northern half of France called Sermaize, Sermaizes or Sermizelles. These place-names come...
These Sri Lanka imitations are very interesting. The first two imitate Roman coins of the 4th c. (Fel. Temp. Reparatio falling horseman and Gloria...
When I was a kid, my father (who never was a coin-collector) had in a drawer not a loaded gun but an old brown envelope with small ancient coins...
Philistines? You could not say it better. Test-cutting Attic tetradrachms was a current practice in 4th c. BC Philistian cities like Gaza,...
The guy was probably tired of testing an enormous pile of tetradrachms one by one, he had to finish the job quickly and did care no more. Usually...
Under Antoninus Pius, the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. It is the second temple, the archaic first temple had been set ablaze by Herostratus in...
But paper money is not always the solution, as evidenced by this German gentleman just leaving home a few minutes to buy cigarettes in the 1920s....
"Was"... and still is! Many people from all Europe, every year, hike to Santiago de Compostela and Le Puy en Velay is one of the most popular...
I think I got the same one... [ATTACH] Maybe not the same mint. Mine is from Kerman mint, I think.
Very interesting ! The French numismatist Jean Babelon proposed a hypothesis about the Carolingian temple with the legend XPISTIANA RELIGIO....
This is the work of one of my friends. Mostly mechanical cleaning... and a lot of patience ! [ATTACH] (Not my coin)
[ATTACH] Clipped (and restored) dirham of Sassanian Iran. Khosrow II (590-628), dirham. Year 28, mint AW. NEXT : Parthian
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