Baal was an honorific title applied to many Semitic gods besides Melqart -- and long before Melqart first appears. So the use of the term,...
Exactly! Sometimes the name of a former seller (like "Pegasi") is written out, but even that doesn't tell you much.
Melqart, also spelled Melkart (meaning "King of the City" in Phoenician) was the tutelary or patron god of the Phoenician city of Tyre. Temples...
Where does one find the key to the code on a given image of a coin?
I think that my most realistic coin portraits -- in the sense of looking the most like real, aging people -- may be on my denarii of Galba and...
These videos are becoming more and more common, especially in the Facebook ancient coin group to which I belong. They are definitely helpful in...
I purchased this Athenian owl from John Jencek at the 2007 NYINC. Because of the test cut through the owl's face and banker's mark in the owl's...
My recently-purchased Vitellius denarius: [ATTACH] And, just because I feel like it, my Galba denarius: [ATTACH] Next, to break the string:...
Coincidentally, I mentioned in the Fonteius/galley thread a couple of days ago that back in 1990, John Melville Jones's Dictionary of Ancient...
Don't forget that most sculptures of emperors and empresses have been identified by their resemblance to coins of those emperors and empresses....
I've never spent anything close to that much on either a coin or a piece of jewelry, and have trouble imagining that I ever would!
Yes, thank you. I can see myself spending many hours researching my Republican coins at this site!
It's kind of funny -- in an unfortunate way! -- that almost everyone here knows exactly who A and Z are.
I have been here for only 5 1/2 months. (I'm a little embarrassed that I already have more than 1,400 posts; I know what my answer will be if...
My Severina has no mustache! [ATTACH] Unless she was just bleaching the hairs on her upper lip. Actually, @Roman Collector explained a couple...
Thanks!
Just fyi, the coin was minted in Arles (Arelatum), not in Constantinople: Arelatum was renamed Constantina in the 4th century AD. Don't let that...
I was going through other examples of my coin on acsearch to see if the wolf's head on the prow was more clearly visible on any of them than on...
Two Medusas and a centaur: Thrace, Apollonia Pontika, AR Drachm, ca. 450-400 BCE. Obv. Upright anchor with large flukes and curved stock; “A”...
I do think that the reverse looks better than before, but agree that the obverse is worse.
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