[ATTACH] I'm sure this Philip Philadelphus tetradrachm of Antioch was minted later, under some Roman governor of Syria. But which one? The date is...
Last spring I was in Rome and of course took some time to visit some places one more time, taking pictures with my smartphone. In the Forum I took...
Wonderful octopus litra ! I had once the project of buying one and have it inserted in some nice pendant for somebody who loves scuba diving (and...
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Charles VI, who signed "the shameful treaty of Troyes" (as old French history textbooks used to call it). This man was completely nuts, but...
I don't think the Louvre has ancient coins. The French national collection is at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF). They have a website...
Thanks for the info. I found 2 specimens on the OCRE database (RIC IV Geta 117 (as)), one from ANS, the other one from Vienna Münzkabinett, none...
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I have few Severian bronzes. Just two sestertii of Septimius Severus, but dated from the beginning of the reign [ATTACH] [ATTACH] An as of...
[ATTACH] I don't remember how much I paid for this one but, as an old miser, I'm pretty sure it wasn't much. I liked it because it was relatively...
it's a coin of Apameia (Syria) minted in 20/19 BC https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/4351
"(Gallienus) gave orders to make a statue of himself arrayed as the Sun and greater than the Colossus, but it was destroyed while still...
repatination makes genuine ancient coins look like tourist fakes
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The obv. legend is Constantinus jun(ior) nob(ilissimus) c(aesar) : "Constantine Jr Most Noble Caesar". Constantine Junior was a son of...
I wonder, if I entered again the Platt shop, if there would be inside some old timer who would recognize me. Back in the time their prices were...
When I was a student in Paris, in the typewriter era, I used to look for Roman coins at "bouquinistes" on the banks of the Seine. They usually...
[ATTACH] Galatia-Pontus, Amasea ; Caracalla, AD 205/6. AE 30 mm, 16.65 g, 6 h. Obv. : AY KAI M AYP ANTΩNINO[c] , laureate, draped and cuirassed...
It is Constantius II. Gallus, a mere Caesar, is not wearing a pearl diadem.
On the wall outside the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, is fixed a long series of black steel plates : 1.30 m high, 280 m long, on which are...
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