I don't know if this coin (there is only one side illustrated twice, and it's upside-down) is an authentic coin of Vlad III Tepes, "the Impaler"....
[ATTACH] Anonymous follis class G (and don't discuss the fact Mary was a virgin, I have been educated as a Roman Catholic, you godless...
The Ottomans, using Arabic as the official language, called the city "al-qusṭanṭīniyya". But the Greek-speaking people, probably even before 1453,...
In Mandarin, the character 蝠 (Fu) means "happiness" or "bat", hence the bat in China is a symbol of happiness. In my home there is a Chinese...
[ATTACH] Sabina, denarius. NEXT : an empress, with another hairstyle.
[ATTACH] Nero Claudius Drusus (AKA Drusus Major), sestertius. AE 35 mm, 27.16 g. This is the last coin I bought, 3 months ago. I like it because...
Why do auctioneers or dealers still grade the coins they sell? They provide excellent hi-res color pictures so everybody can make his own...
It is true that Constantine's reign was "instrumental in the establishment of Christianity as the predominant religion of the then pagan Roman...
We can refer to some precise info from at least 2 excavations in North Jordan. In the macellum of Gerasa (Jerash), they have found 27...
Commodus has been much criticized and even vilified by historical tradition. The fact is that the news of his death (assassinated, but by who?)...
In my house cleanups we only discover old Lego blocks.
So you may belong to the Size Matters kind?
I think I'm personally exactly like you !
Thanks to you I must add to my typology the High Five and the Bollywoodian kind!
In the Frankish states of Outremer (the Levant) the locally-minted coinage, like the deniers of Amalric, circulated together with equivalent...
Thanks. I had forgotten the Biblical kind.
These 2 coins have been found in North Jordan, a few km North of Zarqa. [ATTACH] Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Amalric I, denier, AR 17 mm, 0.96...
I forgot many kinds of collections, for ex. Feminist Separatist: only goddesses and empresses.
Yes, why does it seem so amazing? BTW I also much appreciated Kingdom of Heaven, but I think this movie defames the Knights Templar. The bad guy...
[ATTACH] Antioch on the Orontes, AE 21-24 mm, 11.33 g, 12 h. Obv.: laureate head of Zeus right Rev.: ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕ[ΩΝ] ΤΗΣ (to r., downwards in two...
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