I already posted these two coins two years ago as a reply. I'd like to repost them now as a thread, in case somebody could tell me more about...
[ATTACH] Caracalla (198-217), antoninianus. Obv.: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, radiate draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from front Rev.: P M TR...
[ATTACH] Valerian (253-260), sestertius. AE 30 mm, 16.85 g. Rome, 255-256 Obv.: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG: Laureate and cuirassed bust, right...
The bronze coinage of ancient Carthage is rather boring. During 250 years, from c. 400 to 146 BC, it's always the same types : on obverse the head...
[ATTACH] Severus Alexander, AE 38 mm, 27.84 g. Tarsus, Cilicia. Obv.: AV K CЄOVHPOC AΛЄΞANΔPOC / Π / Π, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of...
Please, could you identify this little AE 16 mm ? [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Severus Alexander, sestertius. AE 30 mm, 14.64 g, 12 h. Rome, 232. Obv. : IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust...
It is a silver coin that seems to be much scarcer than generally said. [ATTACH] Marcus Porcius Cato the younger, quinarius, Africa (?) 47/6 BC....
Alexander the Great wearing Herakles' lion skin is a familiar monetary type, approved by Alexander himself. I like his elephant skin too. I don't...
Nemausus, today Nîmes, was a Roman city. Nemausus was made by Augustus a Roman colony to settle veterans of the Actium war. This is why it minted...
[ATTACH] AE 19 mm, 3.05 g This is what I think I could decipher, but I am not sure at all... : Obv.: head of veiled and turreted Tyche to right...
The Seleucid Kingdom is a most interesting topic in the general history of the Middle East. It was formally founded in 312 BCE, extended from...
[ATTACH] AE 19 mm, 5.61 g, 12 h. Obv.: head of a young diademed king to right The standing deity on rev. holds what is obviously a sceptre...
The emperor Titus' personal propaganda was mostly based upon his victory against the Jews. Many coins celebrating this achievement were minted in...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] These coins of the « Gallic Empire » of the 260s were a shock for me when I was a child. I don’t know why...
Jean de La Bruyère was a French moralist of the late 17th century. In 1688 he translated in French the Characters of Theophrastes, an ancient...
It's a budget sestertius, but it's one of my favourites. [ATTACH] Commodus, sestertius, Rome AD 185/6. AE 29 mm, 17.68 g, 6 h. Obv.: M COMMODVS...
[ATTACH] Geta, as, Rome 199-204. AE 25 mm, 9.97 g, 12 h. Obv.: P SEPT GETA CAES PONT (Publius Septimius Geta Caesar and Pontifex), draped and...
I have been lately trying to ID this bronze coin [ATTACH] Byblos - Julia Domna (193 - 217). AE 24-25 mm, 7.84 g, 1 h. Obv.: ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΔΟΜΝΑ CЄ(B?),...
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