There are famous places and monuments of Antiquity people from all over the world like to visit, such as Rome, Athens, the Pyramids, Petra, etc....
I wonder if there are strict rules for telling if an ancient coin will be called rare, scarce, common... For a sirloin steak it is clear : blue...
Some inventions or innovations had to wait some time before reaching actual success. In 1900, many of the few automobiles already circulating in...
You surely understand this: people know you are interested in ancient coins, and sometimes they come and show you old coins they found or...
[ATTACH] Valerian, antoninianus, BI 20 mm, 5.00 g. Obv. : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG, radiate draped and cuir. bust right, seen from front...
[ATTACH] Commodus, AE sestertius, 31-34 mm, 21.50 g., 6 h. Obv.: L AELIVS AVRELIVS COMMODVS AVG PIVS FELIX, head of Commodus with short beard...
These are slides from a slideshow I had prepared for students. None of the coins are mine, natürlich. They show monuments or landscapes, sometimes...
Rome, Athens, Lugdunum, Alexandria are today large and crowded cities, in which you still can see remains of what they were in Antiquity. Others...
I cannot identify precisely this obol : [ATTACH] Alexander III, AR obol, AR 9 mm, 0.67 g. Obv.: head of Herakles right wearing lion-skin Rev.:...
It is a modest AE antoninianus of Gallienus: [ATTACH] Gallienus, antoninianus Obv.: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right Rev.: PROVID AVG,...
(None of the following coins are mine!) The most fascinating of all ancient coins, for me, are these aurei and denarii of Domitian or Domitia...
[ATTACH] Seleucid Kingdom, Antiochos IV (175-160 BC). AE 33 mm, 39.09 g. Antioch (?), 169-168 BC Obv.: Head of Zeus-Ammon right, wearing tainia...
[ATTACH] Volusian, Perga in Pamphilia, AE 31 mm, 19.81 g. I found on RPC only one specimen known. Because the picture above was too small, I...
Suetonian: a single tray with 12 cases for each of Suetonius’ 12 Caesars, upgrading to the death Biographic: coins of a single emperor and his...
Sub-Saharan Africa in Antiquity is not well-known... There is an exception, the kingdom of Axum in today's Ethiopia. This African kingdom traded...
In Rome, in the second half of the 1st century AD, they made oil lamps specially designed for the New Year. They represented a victory holding a...
[ATTACH] Tiberius caesar, dupondius minted in Lugdunum (Lyons, France). AE 27-28 mm, 12.43 g. 12-14 AD. Obv.: TI CAESAR AVGVST F IMPERAT VII,...
Many years ago I found this old book, printed in 1728. It is a French translation of the satirical "Caesars" written by the emperor Julian II....
[ATTACH] Byzantine Empire, anonymous follis (Constantinople, late 10th - early 11th c.). Obv. +ЄMMA-NOVHΛ, facing bust of Jesus holding a book,...
Many things have been posted on this board about the so-called Tyche of Antioch. Antioch on the Orontes was a Greek city founded by Seleukos I...
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