Veterans in my family... [ATTACH] My dad, 4th from the left, in July 1940, after the worst military disaster of the country's history. His...
I too already posted this as of Geta : [ATTACH] These "Di Patrii" ("ancestral gods") are Liber Pater and Hercules, the Roman version of the...
There are examples of this spelling for the number 18 : [ATTACH] Gravestone of Pompeii. "Aulus Buccius Victor, he lived 18 years".
Well... It could be, but it could also belong to the "diverse imitations" category. Pierre Bastien found that some dies used for overstruck coins...
It's funny to see how many of those completely worn out 1st and 2nd c. sestertii had a second life when overstruck by the Postumian "Atelier II"...
Please give dimensions, weight and provenance, thanks ! It would be easier to ID. It's probably a coin of Elagabalus minted at Marcianopolis...
[ATTACH] Postumus, AE 22 mm, 5.20 g, somewhere in Gaul 266-270. Obv. : illegible legend (mostly off-flan), radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of...
The countermarked as is an as of Augustus minted in 7 BC by the money magistrate M. Salvius Otho. This man was the grandfather of the emperor Otho...
nice and interesting popular issue. How can these imitations be labeled ? Barbarous? unofficial? It's so obvious that they denote a dire need of...
The official standard of the Attic tetradrachm in the 5th-4th c. BC was 17.20 g., but most coins were slightly lighter; with c. 16,5 g. The...
[ATTACH] It's a silver drachm of the Vologases III type (105-147). A long reign which was plagued in the late 110s by a catastrophe: a Roman...
[ATTACH] ANTONINVS AVG. PIVS P.P., laureate bust right TEMPLVM DIVI AVG. REST. / COS. IIII, front-view of the Temple of Divine Augustus, with 8...
I have the same one but it's his son. [ATTACH]
The burnt scrolls of Pompeii are fascinating. Some could be deciphered in the 18th and 19th c. All were Greek and many were works by Philodemus of...
Writing Roman history has been a literary exercise since the very beginning. Under the Republic the main topic of Polybius was to show how and why...
... and on these ones, 4 emperors : [ATTACH] Constans II, AE follis, Constantinople mint, 641-668 Obv.: bust of Constans II facing, holding cross...
[ATTACH] Honorius, AE 4, Antioch mint, 402-408. Obv.: D N HONORI-VS P F AVG, draped and cuirassed bust right, wearing pearl-diadem Rev.: GLORI-A...
My two heads coins... According to the initial post, it's one head on each face. [ATTACH] Septimius Severus, AE 19 mm of Edessa (Sanliurfa,...
These nice tetradrachms (Nabataean standard) were not minted in Bostra. They were more likely minted in Rome for circulation in Arabia.
Nice tetradrachm, minted in Babylon in the last year of Alexander's life. With the bee and the M in the reverse left field, it belongs to the same...
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