I agree with you. This is why I was very surprised one day when I found in a bookshop a 450 pages biography entitled "Antonin le Pieux" by Bernard...
Antioch, Bohemond III (1163-1201), denier. AR 18 mm, 0.92 g, 3 h. Obv. +BOAMVNDVS, mailed and helmeted bust of Bohemond left, cross on helmet,...
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I was young, then... During a vacation in Tunisia with my family, I bought from some souvenir shop for tourists this tiny (15 mm) coin of...
[ATTACH] Imitative AR tetradrachma, 17.07 g, 9 h. (found in Rafah, Palestinian Territories, ancient Raphia). 2nd half of the 4th c. BC. (not my...
Wow! and it is in Flemish... I suppose BP had the same promotional operation in Belgium and the Netherlands. Thanks for sharing !
Similar, really? You mean reproductions of ancient or medieval coins? In France other gas stations tried to imitate BP's promotional operation....
In 1968 in France the BP gas stations (British Petroleum) started an advertising operation called "Treasure of the Kings of France". For each fill...
Ah, OK ! :). I understand what you mean: Syrians demanded that visa applications should be made in the Syrian embassy of your country of...
[ATTACH] Caracalla. A.D. 198-217. AR denarius. Rome, A.D. 203. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate and draped bust of Caracalla right / INDVLGENTIA AVGG...
So you visited Jordan but not Petra?! That's uncommon. I don't understand what you mean with those "hardliners tearing down monuments" : there has...
[ATTACH] Petra : the urn on top of the "Deyr" (which is the tomb of a Nabataean king, maybe Rabbel II).
[ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius, sestertius “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” NEXT :...
In Rome this emperor was very controversial, but everything he did was perfectly legal. Being the Pontifex Maximus, he was the only male admitted...
Early Islamic belief, really? Most of our sources on Muhammad and the beginning of Islam are of Abbassid date, and may reflect the beliefs of...
[ATTACH] Vitellius denarius [ATTACH] Titus denarius There is a mark stamped on it : ISO (?). I don't think it was already a form of standard or...
Geeezus! That's what I call a very rare coin, and it looks authentic! Congratulations. Didius Julianus reigned only two months, and that was 1828...
You should try to clean the rev. just a little, the legend should be visible. With its square short flan and the king's curly hair, this coin is...
[ATTACH] Malichus I (59-30 BC), minted year 27 = 34/3 BC. I got it in Petra many, many years ago, when the only accommodation was the old Petra...
Elagabalus was not only "Pontifex Maximus" (head of the Roman religion), he was also "Summus Sacerdos", the "High Priest", head of the religion of...
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