[ATTACH] Justin I: Follis (Nicomedia) Half-follis (Antioch) Pentanummion (Antioch). Probably the last coin with the Tyche of Antioch on the...
Congratulations! I always wished I had such a cabinet.
[ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, Ephesus, AE 35 Obv.: Τ ΑΙΛ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΝΤΩΝƐΙΝΟϹ, laureate head of Antoninus Pius, r. rev.: ƐΦƐϹΙΩΝ / ΔΙϹ ΝƐΟΚΟΡΩΝ, temple...
If you want to figure what 500,000 aurei could mean, let's do some maths c. AD 244, the Gordian III aureus was an average 5 g gold coin. 500,000...
This sum is mentioned on a monumental trilingual inscription of Shapur, at Naqsh-i Rustam near Persepolis. There is a Greek, a Persian and a...
Nice coin ! :) but it's not a denarius, it's an antoninianus of Otacilia Severa. Her bust is on a crescent...
Philip the Arab is very common on coins, Roman and provincial, but some historians think we know very little about him. Probably it’s because he...
I am sincerely sorry for this...
[ATTACH] Honorius, AE4, Antioch (406-408) Obv.: D.N. HONORIVS P.F. AVG., pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right Rev.: GLORIA ROMANORVM ,...
15th century, now There were lords and top merchants counting their florins and écus d'or. And there were peasants, humble fishermen,...
I don't have any coin that could be documented in some important collection catalogue. Most of mine were bought when I was much younger and...
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