These coins of Severus Alexander and Maximinus I (Thrax) both have Fides Militvm on the reverse, signifying the loyalty of the army. Which is a...
I don't know; mine looks more like a ball on a stick, balanced on Venus Felix's palm. Maybe she was a juggler?
That looks great already!
Thanks! It was my mistake: I just checked the seller's description from VCoins from when I bought the coin in May 2018 (it was our own...
Although for whatever reason I don't see a crescent on this antoninianus of Severina. Were the crescents abandoned at some point? [ATTACH]
But portraits of women on antoniniani never have crowns. The crescent is the sign of an ant for a woman, as in these three examples: [ATTACH]...
@lordmarcovan , I don't know if you noticed my edit at the end of my post: Edited to add: I'm pretty sure it was a mistake by the article's...
Alexander the Great and Cleopatra. Do you have any great confidence that a large percentage of people could correctly identify either?
I tried to see how many of your type were in the hoard, @lordmarcovan, but I'm a bit confused. See...
According to the 1888 Numismatic Chronicle article by John Evans, entitled "On a Hoard of Roman Coins found at East Harptree, near Bristol," there...
My one East Harptree Hoard coin is also a Valens. It's definitely darker in hand than in the seller's photo below. Valens, AR Siliqua, 364-367,...
Please let's not have that kind of discussion here again! The last time was way too unpleasant.
I'm not quite a novice anymore -- I've been actively collecting and reading about ancient coins for the last three years or so, and participating...
I think Alexander's tomb might be a bigger story for historians, archaeologists, and people with an interest in ancient history. Cleopatra's tomb...
You might want to do a search for a thread from a while back with some complaints about Zeus. Apart from everything else mentioned above, the...
No need to be so mysterious! Are you assuming that his final resting place was someplace other than the so-called "king's chamber" inside the...
Amazing that she's so well-preserved after more than two millennia!
OK, I think I finally get what you're looking at. Before, all I saw was a fourth prong extending from the prow directly above the three-pronged...
That seems to be a reasonable summary of my position! Although I do have one slight quibble, about this statement: I don't think they were aware...
Well, the main point of my post was that the panthers depicted on Roman coins are leopards, and that we might as well call them leopards when...
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