Yes, you're right !
I doubt very much this sestertius represents a bridge built in northern Britain. And I doubt also Trajan's bridge sestertius represents the bridge...
Excellent post about a fascinating emperor. My favourite Septimius Severus' campaign is the first one, in 193, when he took Rome and seized...
It sometimes happened that the Rome mint, usually issuing SC bronze coinage for circulation in Italy and the western provinces, also minted...
I can share 3 sizes of Alexanders - tetradrachm from Sardes, minted BC 318-315 under Antigonus the one-eyed, strategos of Asia (Price 2665) -...
There was an old thread here, about a BBC site questioning the ethics of Roma Numismatics......
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[ATTACH] Gallienus, Alexandria AE tetradrachm. rev.: bust of Helios
A Claudius II Gothicus that fits your description (IOVI STATORI) but not the coin (IOVI VICTORI). [ATTACH] Next : Jupiter Stator
You are right. But the T. Quinctius Flamininus aurei were not Roman coins. They were Greek coins and the proconsul's name was not on the same side...
I don't know if there has been a special study of the whole EID MAR emission, in silver and gold. You say there are 85 known but the PAS site says...
Greece is not claiming the wonderful coins of Syracuse, though they are typical Greek coins and not Roman ones. This aureus is historically...
Some good reading about ancient coins found in America:
Historians are pretty confident this aureus (and the similar silver denarii) was minted for Brutus and Cassius' army, which was concentrated near...
I think the Sulla denarius is the first Roman coin ever to show the image of a living person. On the reverse one can see Sulla crowned by Victory...
This is a clear picture of Artemis Pergaia cult image, from the theatre of Perge : [ATTACH] (Photo Sonia Halliday)
Trapezopolis... in Greek "the Table City". It was in Caria, now South-West Turkey. It was a Greek city with its citizens, its institutions, its...
When you have only a limited budget it is possible to create a much eye-pleasing collection of Roman coins by focusing on common coins, very...
Sorry, the pic is too blurry. It is possible to take sharp and focused pictures, even with an ordinary smartphone.
[ATTACH] Gordian III, sestertius, Rome 238/9 Obv.: IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right Rev.: PROVIDENTIA AVG /...
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