[ATTACH] Already posted, but I like this portrait...
Yes, why not? They should at least publish a high res photo of this coin. For the moment nobody can make hypotheses from this blurry pic of a coin...
When Postumus seized power in 260 and started minting coins in Cologne and Trier, he immediately introduced a new type of imperial portrait. Since...
[ATTACH] This is a denarius of Titus (marked with some banker stamp). What could I buy with it, back then? Under Titus 1 aureus = 25 denarii =...
[ATTACH] Justin I: Follis (Nicomedia) Half-follis (Antioch) Pentanummion (Antioch). Probably the last coin with the Tyche of Antioch on the...
Congratulations! I always wished I had such a cabinet.
[ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, Ephesus, AE 35 Obv.: Τ ΑΙΛ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΝΤΩΝƐΙΝΟϹ, laureate head of Antoninus Pius, r. rev.: ƐΦƐϹΙΩΝ / ΔΙϹ ΝƐΟΚΟΡΩΝ, temple...
If you want to figure what 500,000 aurei could mean, let's do some maths c. AD 244, the Gordian III aureus was an average 5 g gold coin. 500,000...
This sum is mentioned on a monumental trilingual inscription of Shapur, at Naqsh-i Rustam near Persepolis. There is a Greek, a Persian and a...
Nice coin ! :) but it's not a denarius, it's an antoninianus of Otacilia Severa. Her bust is on a crescent...
Philip the Arab is very common on coins, Roman and provincial, but some historians think we know very little about him. Probably it’s because he...
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