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According to Hindu mythology, Krishna often stole butter from his mother's butter handi. Not only is this depicted on the coins, but a boulder in...
I don't believe the mythological figure of Orion the hunter appears on ancient coins. Marshall Faintich's Astronomical Symbols on Ancient and...
Thank you so much, @Sulla80 , for posting the relevant portions of Bertolazzi's recent examination of this issue and for posting your coins. On...
I have one too! [ATTACH] Mn. Fonteius C.f., 85 BC. Roman AR Denarius, 3.97 g, 21.0 mm, 5h. Rome mint. Obv: MN. FONTEI C. F, Laureate head of...
I don't think anyone was out to deface the deified Faustina II here; it's just pretty scratched up. The scratches are UNDER the patina, and...
That's a tiny one! That is BMC (Mysia) 15, which is .4 inches (10.16 mm) and 19.8 grains (1.28 g): [ATTACH] The 169 number is likely to be SNG...
It's probably tied up in US customs. I've had waits of a couple of weeks before.
That's a gorgeous coin, @panzerman ! Ceres, when depicted with a lighted torch in each hand so as to search for her daughter in the underworld,...
It can be difficult to distinguish between asses and dupondii on coins of empresses before crescents were used to distinguish between the as and...
Isis appears on few Roman imperial issues. The most famous imperial coin to depict the Egyptian goddess is a silver denarius of Julia Domna, wife...
This Julian II was in a junk box at a show. I need to rephotograph it because it's nicer than this. [IMG] Julian II, 361-363. Roman Silvered AE...
That's a fascinating article, @SeptimusT . I wish I had more examples of Alexandrian coinage with Egyptian iconography (but @TIF gobbles them all...
How lucky you are! Here's my humble example: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
She's right-handed.
Lovely acquisition, @David Atherton ! Spes, of course, is depicted with a flower ... [IMG] Julia Domna, AD 193-217. Roman AR denarius, 3.40 g,...
His wife: [IMG] Otacilia Severa, AD 244-249. Roman provincial Æ 24 mm, 14.34 g. Mesopotamia, Nisibis, AD 244-249. Obv: MAP ΩTAKIΛ CЄOYHPAN CЄB,...
Nothing says Rome more than this issue, in my opinion. Roma herself appears on the obverse in military garb, surrounded by VRBS ROMA, "City of...
One of sixteen vestal virgins Who were leaving for the coast ... [MEDIA] [ATTACH] Julia Domna, AD 193-217. Roman Æ as, 9.85 g, 25 mm. Rome, AD...
Here's another example of the Salonina coin, but the animal looks much less like a doe and more like a goat. [ATTACH] Cornelia Salonina, AD...
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