Four years ago, on 14.01.2020, a very strange coin was auctioned in New York by CNG: an aureus of Aurelian and Vabalathus. [ATTACH] AV 17 mm,...
What? When still a kid in the late eighties you bought from Claude Burgan this very decent owl ? How many golf courses did you mow before you...
Price 1967, minted at Magnesia on the Maeander in 319-305 BC. It's posthumous, of course, like most of the Alexanders on which Zeus' legs are crossed.
[ATTACH] Sidon (Phoenicia). AE minted under Claudius in AD 51/2. Europa riding the bull...
Obverse and reverse of two different coins.
Of course there are kneeling captives! I am sorry I was not clear enough: the client-kings or nations recognized as "friends of the Roman People"...
Thanks for the article, it's very interesting for me (I was just working on the Rex Aretas reverse, compared with the Arabia adquisita reverses of...
Yes, there is such a big difference between Arsacid and Sassanid rock reliefs that it is obvious a new art school emerged in Persia as soon as...
Coin 1, Ayyubid fals, 13th c. according to the calligraphy Coin 2 Ummayyad fals (probably Syria, 8th c. AD) Both are upside-down. Here they are :...
Knowing that I like ancient coins, my colleagues (good friends indeed, i was moved) just offered me a scarce Gaulish coin, a nice one. It's a coin...
I think this typical architecture of the Tychaion (tetrastyle, triangular pediment with central arch) is not always just the frame of the adyton,...
You are right, it's a simplification of the Tychaion architetural frame. We can say that in Antioch : here is a (much worn, sorry, that's the only...
The vision at the Milvian Bridge was not a conversion for Constantine. He just saw a sign, a logo : ☧, and considered it was a sign from "the...
Many cities in the oriental provinces of the Roman Empire worshipped their own city-goddess called in Greek the Tyche, the Fortune or Destiny of...
The Sabina Alexandrian tetradrachm is outstanding.
The Mauger medal is interesting. The rev. legend, DISCIP. MILIT. REST. probably means Discip(lina) milit(um) rest(ituta), "Military discipline has...
[ATTACH] Trebonianus Gallus and Volusian, AE 8 assaria of Antioch. On the reverse, the Tychaion of Antioch. It does not represent the temple...
You are right, the tooled coin from Chicago must be one of the "triumphal arch" coins with a reverse copied from the Domitian Alexandrian...
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In the Art Institute of Chicago, they have a specimen of this coin which is the most abominably tooled ancient coin... [ATTACH]...
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