I know very well this area of Paris for this is where I was living in my childhood. My high school was the Lycée Charlemagne, just next to the...
I do not know if it is open yet to visitors, but yes, they are currently preparing a new museum in the BNF with some highlights. Not only coins,...
[ATTACH] Emesa (Homs, Syria), Julia Domna, AE 24 mm Obv.: IOV[ΛIA] ΔOMNA [AVΓ]. , draped bust of Julia Domna right [EMICΩ]N KOΛΩNIAC / ZKΦ : year...
It is a coin of Ptolemy I Soter. Obv.: head of Alexander wearing elephant-skin Rev. : ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ , eagle standing left on thunderbolt,...
[ATTACH] Antiochos VII Euergetes (or Sidetes), 138-129 BC. Obv.: Bust of winged Eros right Rev.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EYEPΓETOY, Isis headdress,...
I know this area in Paris, near the Bourse (Paris Stock Exchange) and the Bibliothèque Nationale (and its Cabinet des Médailles). It may be called...
[ATTACH] Aelia Flaccilla (wife of Theodosius I, mother of Honorius and Arcadius) Obv.: AEL FLAC-CILLA AVG, bust right Rev.: SALVS REI PVBLICAE /...
Very nice specimen ! :woot: One day I found an affordable classic owl : [ATTACH] but the palmette on Athena's helmet has a curious shape, it...
I think it represents what is on the actual pedestal : a door giving access to the interior of the column (it is hollow, there are stairs to the...
[ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius, sestertius Obv.: M ANTONINVS AVG GERM TR P XXI[X], laur. head right Rev.: LIBERALITAS AVG VI IMP VII COS III / S C,...
[ATTACH] Cornelia Salonina, rev.: Pudicitia. AE antoninianus Next : another empress
[ATTACH] Trajan, sestertius... Next : a sestertius with more than 3 people on reverse.
[ATTACH] Claudius, Sidon (Phoenicia). Europa riding a bull. Next up: an hybrid human/animal creature
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