Images of the emperor carried into battle carried a cultural memory of an actual severed head? That sounds implausible to me. Do you have a source?
Note that despite this, animals still predominated among legionary emblems as late as the reign of Gallienus in the 260s. See this list of reverse...
My tiniest is this Divus Maximian "Half-Follis" from 317/318 AD, with a tiny lion strutting proudly on the reverse. It's 14 mm. [ATTACH]
The only non-visible photos in that thread are the ones posted by @Cucumbor. He must have linked them from another site. According to what I've...
I'm not sure that people deliberately delete photos that much. Sometimes, when a photo comes from somewhere else on the Internet (instead of...
That's a great canopus, to go with the weirdest-looking Hadrian portrait I think I've ever seen! Look at that mustache.
The last thread I saw here about that flag got deleted, so be careful!
Thanks. If you haven't already read it, I think you would like the book "The Warmth of Other Suns," by Isabel Wilkerson, a history of the Great...
The jubilee crown type in which you're interested is probably the least popular of the four types. Many have considered the tiny crown perched on...
At least as late as the 1750s in France -- not so long ago, in the grand scheme of things! -- one of the available punishments for crimes like...
He was just making fun of what he imagines "liberals" who "hate white people" would say.
Never mind.
I've heard those too, except it's usually "dead presidents," not just "presidents"!
I know it's neither perfect nor all-encompassing, especially in preserving comment archives for defunct blogs and message board websites, but I'm...
That's quite an interesting history. I actually retired from the practice of law myself in December 2019, even though I hadn't yet reached the age...
I have several Augustus coins; this one is probably in the best condition. Augustus, Æ As, 11-12 AD Rome Mint. Obv. IMP CAESAR DIVI F AVGVSTVS...
It was certainly an important battle, but I'm not sure that you can reasonably conclude that even if it hadn't taken place, or the Romans hadn't...
I think that's more than a placeholder! It's in perfectly nice condition, especially considering that this type doesn't come up that often. So,...
Dionysos/Bacchus really didn't age well, did he?
I can't see the reverse very well, so I thought I'd ask what makes it a Canopus of Isis rather than Osiris? Is the head identifiably female?
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