Really interesting coins @medoraman - I was completely unaware of these types. I wonder what kind of cross-cultural interactions led to the...
Gordian III antoninianus with Apollo on the reverse: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The Stanford Art Museum has a collection of Ptolemaic tetradrachms on display in their ancient art section. However, they don't attribute them by...
Vespasian. Tet of Alexandria, 25 mm 12.2 grams. Reverse: Nike. On this one you can tell there is some silver in the coin. [ATTACH]
Very cool coin. You must be very proud.
For me, it is the sense and sweep of history associated with the coins and the fact that one can handle something that existed and was used by...
Nice collection of coins. I suppose Republican denarii circulated for far longer than I thought, instead of being melted down for denarii minted...
Constantius I, Siscia [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Great coins all. Really have enjoyed looking at them.
Elagabalus AR tetradrachm, Syria - Antioch [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Congrats on your 1-year anniversary Pavlos. Keep on postin'.
Very interesting. What the coin tells us is that the hoard can't have been buried before 321 A.D.
Some scholars are entrapped in a web of theoretical perspectives that they pass on to students. In may day it was a Marxian view of history that...
Nice coins @maridvnvm and @Orange Julius - at least Valerian II got a nice sendoff to the afterlife.
Hey wait! The earth isn't flat? And of course, antiquity was fake news.
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I agree. You can always specialize in grad school. You just have to concentrate on getting a good score on the GMAT, LSAT, GRE, or MCAT plus a...
I had the same reaction. Couldn't make out heads or tails. It would help if they were not in flips. Even then, I am not sure that any of them can...
Yes. I am friends with a couple of Italian computer scientists who got the Ph.D. degree equivalent without paying for tuition. In the U.S. of...
Nice coins all - getting a Tacitus is next on my need-to-acquire list. I have so far bid on his coins in two auctions but I didn't win either of...
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