This is a classic mistake dating back to late Antiquity. For the Romans, the symbol of Arabia was the camel (generally the one-humped dromedary,...
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The Cross became a Christian symbol only when saint Helena, mother of Constantine, made excavations in Jerusalem and found the True Cross, and...
[ATTACH] Caracalla and Julia Domna, Marcianopolis. Next : a temple
[ATTACH] My favourite Commodus coin: a sestertius with Commodus delivering a speech to the Praetorian Guard. Commodus, AE sestertius, Rome 186...
[ATTACH] Gades (Cadix, Spain) - AE 19 mm (late IIIrd C. BC) Head of young Melqart-Heracles left, wearing lion's skin Punic legend : MP'L / HGDR ,...
Not minted in North Africa, but a North African related theme: when the emperor(s) pardoned the tax debts of Carthage [ATTACH] Caracalla, AR...
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[ATTACH] Gordian III and Tranquillina, Singara (Mesopotamia). Next : two busts looking at each other
Funny thread, indeed... Associate a coin with a tune... Why not? Here is my contribution: [ATTACH] Iran, Sassanian Empire, Yazdagard I...
One funny thing. In the 2000s my parents went visiting Uzbekistan and they brought me back an old coin : [ATTACH] They thought, and at first...
I suppose this letter was not carried by a lone Mongolian ambassador who disembarked one morning in Paris and tried to negotiate in Mongolian his...
Most, if not all of what the French looted in the late 1790s and early 1800s was given back to the previous owners as soon as 1814. There are...
[ATTACH] Next : purely epigraphic reverse
Here is the law in France :...
[ATTACH] Arcadius, AE3 with mintmark ANT Γ NEXT : another Roman facing bust but not a solidus!
"Killed in 1830" ??? this is highly fictionalized indeed! :D I have seen this movie and, sincerely, I did not like it too much. But it deserves to...
Not an inside job, I don't think so, nothing such was found. The culprits have been identified and none of them had any connexion with the Cabinet...
Precisely because they are rare! Selling them was impossible because collectors would quickly recognize stolen coins from the Cabinet des...
This medallion did not "mysteriously disappear" at all, it was stolen, yes, together with more than 2000 ancient gold coins and other unique...
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