[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...
I am sincerely sorry for this...
[ATTACH] Honorius, AE4, Antioch (406-408) Obv.: D.N. HONORIVS P.F. AVG., pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right Rev.: GLORIA ROMANORVM ,...
15th century, now There were lords and top merchants counting their florins and écus d'or. And there were peasants, humble fishermen,...
I don't have any coin that could be documented in some important collection catalogue. Most of mine were bought when I was much younger and...
I found your coin, it's a 2nd-1st c. BCE AE 16 mm of Sardis (Lydia), magistrate Lyras Menogenes. Greek and Roman Provincial Coins - Lydia vol.4,...
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I don't have any Julius Caesar coin... And I wish I had this device in my kitchen : [ATTACH]
In Philip the Fair's time, the Knights Templar were no longer warriors fighting the Sarrazins in the Holy Land, they had become bankers. Because...
You may be right: the very word Mesopotamia must have automatically "raised a red flag". But it is understandable. Since 2003 and the fall of...
At first sight this looks stupid. What will the Italians do with these very common modern and ancient coins w/o any provenance?
It's a coin of Sardis, Lydia. Obv.: head of Herakles right (rotate your pic 90° counterclockwise) rev.: in r. field ΣAΡΔIANΩN, in l. field...
1400 is the last year of the 14th century, I think... So : AR grosso of the doge Michele Steno (1400-1413), Venice (Italy ;-) ) [ATTACH] Obv.:...
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