Are you sure it is? Since 622 there have been many images in Islamic art, including images of the Prophet. Presently the Sunni orthodoxy is that...
Athenian owls and Nemausus crocodiles are very common, yes. But coins with portraits of Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra are much rarer, let's...
Unless you can read the exergue or reverse legend, it is very difficult to attribute these c.20 mm bronze coins with a Tychaion reverse to a city...
I find these Ailiya fulus fascinating. First, the name of the city: ايليا فلستين , Ailiya Filastin... This is the Latin name Aelia Palaestinae, or...
No, in fact, being in France, I mostly read French or European comics. These two drawings were directly ordered from the artist himself, and he...
[ATTACH] Comic albums, comic books, graphic novels, and original drawings by my favourite authors.
[ATTACH] Revolt of the Heraclii, follis, AE 33 mm, 10.43 g, 6 h. Alexandria, 610 AD. Obv.: dm HЄRACLIO CONSuL II, bareheaded busts of Heraclius...
For a private personal collection I prefer by far eye-appealing specimens of common or scarce coins. In my view of things, rarities rather belong...
[ATTACH] Alexander II Zebinas. He was a Seleucid king at war against his rival and competitor Antiochus VIII, supported by Egypt. Zebinas had a...
[ATTACH] Seleucid Kingdom, Demetrius II Nikator 1st reign, AE 24 mm, 12.22 g. Uncertain mint in Syria, 146-145 BC. Obv.: laureate head of zeus...
Some day somebody will surely find a specimen cut in half... to make obvious the significant half of the coin :smuggrin:.
It's Price 3281 (Ake, 316/5 BC), but the attribution has changed since. It is now considered Tyre mint under Ptolemy I Soter as satrap. The date...
[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...
The same types were also struck on AE3: [ATTACH] AE3 of Arcadius, RIC X Arcadius 97 (401-403 AD)
I don't understand : these two deities with rudder and cornucopia are Fortuna: Fortuna Redux seated and Fortuna Felix standing. I never read...
Engraver error... or old well-executed tooling ?
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] When the Rome mint decided to forget mos majorum and issue modern coinage like everybody else...
This coin looks more like some dancing contest in the 1940-1950s... [MEDIA] (just saying, it's still Next up: Arethusa)
Fake. Look at the hair, and at the letters on reverse : the engraver did not know Greek letters.
Dio's tale is full of details, names, motivations, he even tells what the characters think. Dio's tale is written from the point of view of an...
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