In fact this medallion shows the god Janus, but one of his two faces was designed after Commodus' features. It is one of these Commodian...
No next? Then it's still river-god. What about the Nile? [ATTACH] NEXT : Antoninus Pius, minted in Alexandria
Yes, I could decipher it (... obviously there were lines of text before) LEG III AVG QVAESTORI AEDILI : ... 3rd Legion Augusta, Quaestor, Aedile...
12 h - letters are sometimes more appreciated than flowers [ATTACH] Augustus, AE as Obv.: CAESAR AV[G. PONT. MAX. T]RIBVNIC. POTEST., bare head...
Artificial intelligence is a form of non-human intelligence, and this is what I find fascinating. The basic algorithms are created by humans and...
à Montréal on aurait plutôt attendu des espèces de crisse de fefi de câlisse. Mais peut-être que ça se perd...
Maximinus Daia as Caesar (Alexandria): [ATTACH] The same as Augustus (Antioch): [ATTACH] ... with a nice desert patina worthy of A.'s or Z.'s...
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"Le même exemplaire" is ambiguous. If they meant the very coin they are selling, they should have written "cet exemplaire" (this coin). In French...
It is definitely not the same coin, that's obvious. But the one you bought is better : on the NAC/Leu specimen there is a big shock deeply...
But it's not a rabbit ! Which Roman emperor would like to be depicted savagely tramping on a cute little bunny? [ATTACH] It's a croc, of course....
Good! excellent ! I should have made a slide for this one. Er... couldn't resist, I did it. Lugdunum (Lyon, France), Altar of Rome and Augustus...
I have no coin from Ancyra (either in Galatia or Phrygia) Your Ancyra, in Galatia, is an old city dating back to the Bronze Age. In Roman times...
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These are slides from a slideshow I had prepared for students. None of the coins are mine, natürlich. They show monuments or landscapes, sometimes...
To stay in this thread's spirit, don't you think Fortuna's page 3 could make this denarius another British-related coin? [ATTACH]
:jawdrop::smuggrin::hilarious: Reminds me the Google translation of Carrhae's "Temple of Sin" (Sin, the Babylonian Moon-god) by "Temple du Péché"....
I don't know if the galley-type may be considered part of Hadrian's travel-series. Of course the emperor did travel by sea, at least when crossing...
Yes, of course, there will always be people in every country in the world that will "strongly oppose" superpowers... But I remember having seen...
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