The Cross became a Christian symbol only when saint Helena, mother of Constantine, made excavations in Jerusalem and found the True Cross, and...
[ATTACH] Caracalla and Julia Domna, Marcianopolis. Next : a temple
[ATTACH] My favourite Commodus coin: a sestertius with Commodus delivering a speech to the Praetorian Guard. Commodus, AE sestertius, Rome 186...
[ATTACH] Gades (Cadix, Spain) - AE 19 mm (late IIIrd C. BC) Head of young Melqart-Heracles left, wearing lion's skin Punic legend : MP'L / HGDR ,...
Not minted in North Africa, but a North African related theme: when the emperor(s) pardoned the tax debts of Carthage [ATTACH] Caracalla, AR...
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[ATTACH] Gordian III and Tranquillina, Singara (Mesopotamia). Next : two busts looking at each other
Funny thread, indeed... Associate a coin with a tune... Why not? Here is my contribution: [ATTACH] Iran, Sassanian Empire, Yazdagard I...
One funny thing. In the 2000s my parents went visiting Uzbekistan and they brought me back an old coin : [ATTACH] They thought, and at first...
I suppose this letter was not carried by a lone Mongolian ambassador who disembarked one morning in Paris and tried to negotiate in Mongolian his...
Most, if not all of what the French looted in the late 1790s and early 1800s was given back to the previous owners as soon as 1814. There are...
[ATTACH] Next : purely epigraphic reverse
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