Protecting cultural patrimony is not "bureaucracy". Looters and antiquities traffickers severely harm History by destroying archaeological sites,...
[ATTACH] Seleucia Pieria, Trajan. R/ : the conic Baetyl of Zeus Kasios under his canopy. Next : Baetyl
[ATTACH] I have no first ancient coin, I have 20 first ancient coins : a small hoard (or more likely part of a hoard) my dad gave me when I was a...
[ATTACH]This is my first sestertius. I was young at the time, and very excited to find this budget Roman coin with the emperor Commodus addressing...
Here are two photos of Saint Sophia, one I took a few years ago and a recent one picked from the ArtNews article. A few years ago, this church was...
[ATTACH] Gallienus, AE antoninianus, rev. IOVI CONS AVG, goat walking left. Next : Victorinus
Thanks ! maybe a laurel-branch (Howgego 378)...
[ATTACH] Macrinus (217-218), AR tetradrachm, Hierapolis (Mambij, Syria). Next : lion.
I wonder what can be this Antioch Trajanic countermark... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I should try to clean it better, but I didn't. Who could ID this...
[ATTACH] This is late Roman silver : a siliqua of Valens, from Trier. Next : late Roman gold
I did not clearly understand what was the problem with this forum. I have seen there had been arguments here on non-numismatic issues, and I must...
Yes, that's true! I think that the first who did it, Julius Caesar, could seem criminal because it had never been done before, it was against the...
A Flag Day? I had to ask Wikipedia for this. There is no such thing in my country, but I could see there are many others with a Flag Day: in...
[ATTACH] Hadrian, Alexandria, AE drachm : Egyptian temple, statue visible between the pylons. Next : temple
[ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, my least favourite Roman emperor. No funny hobbies, no crimes, no mistress, no giton, no nymphomaniac spouse, no...
It is an imitation of old Spanish silver coins minted in South America. See for example [ATTACH] this 8 reales coin minted in Potosi, Bolivia.
Nobody? Let us try something else. [ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, as, 149 AD. Obv.: ANTONINVS AVG. PIVS P.P. TR.P. XII, laureate head right Rev.:...
The obv. looks like a king of Characene (South-East Iraq, 1st c. AD), but I don't know if they issued minimi like your small coin.
A strange clay statuette from Chad Roughly 25 years ago I was in Chad for some business with a local university. One day, a group of professors...
Probably the monogram on the neck-guard of your coin should be read ayin - daleth. There are many other Qatabanian monograms on Athena's helmet...
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