Good question. I suppose I should have clarified that I meant "duplicate ruler" not duplicate coin. The first one is a post-reform radiate and the...
And then purchased a duplicate? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] In my case, I had the above coin from an uncleaned hoard. Not much to look at really. And...
Very nice article @Roman Collector. I didn't know that any descendants of Marc Antony were still ruling down into the first century A.D.
I poked around the web and couldn't find the release date of GII. It seems like the project was greenlighted in 2018. Apparently Crowe will make a...
Claiming descent from illustrious personages (or gods in some cases) imparted an aura of legitimacy in ancient times, both amongst the Greeks and...
Nice article. Thanks.
I'm not entirely convinced it is Byzantine. Does anyone else think so?
Hope they were imbibing something, interesting coin.
It appears to be authentic to me. Flans are not always completely smooth. Here is an authentic coin from Zeugma (Phillip the Arab). [ATTACH]
Some nice new coins there! Congrats on the pick-up.
Lares and Penates, the household gods... http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Iz-Le/Lares-and-Penates.html
I had the same reaction as I saw The Fall of the Roman Empire on TV one Saturday afternoon as a teenager. The Stephen Boyd character plays a role...
Yeah. I like it was well as the bad boy is wearing scale armor, also the tiny figure being held by Victory...
Probably not.
Don't know who will be featured. Crowe died in the final scene and went to Elysium. I suppose it could be in the reign of Severus, but who knows.
The beginning of the movie was fantastic...particularly the scenes of the Roman launch of arrows and artillery and then the advance of the...
Well, I just posted this yesterday, but here is Lucilla followed by hubby Lucius Verus (R.I.P.) [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Verus...
Certainly a coin to please a ludologist. Now you can look up that word!
Lucilla is pretty much known to all of us (at least those who saw the film) as the wife of Lucius Verus and the daughter of Marcus Aurelius, as...
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