The adventus coin was minted when Severus came back from Gaul where he had crushed his opponent Albinus and was acclaimed Imperator for the 8th...
Septimius Severus entered Rome several times during his carreer as Augustus. His first entry was in 193 during the "expeditio urbana". It is...
Isn't this bird just an eagle-tipped sceptre?
The rev. legend is ADVENTVS AVGG, so there must be two Augusti entering Rome. Philip Jr was only Caesar in 244-247, he was promoted to the rank of...
[ATTACH] Septimius Severus, sestertius, 27-29 mm, 20.56 g. It is extremely worn, nearly all legends have been rubbed off, but I like its patina....
@Curtisimo I was not convinced by Beckmann's article, but I just found good hi-res photographs of the Constantinian liberalitas relief, taken in a...
Well... I don't have much time to reply. Let's just consider for now another better specimen on the second neronian liberalitas scene, because the...
[ATTACH] This sestertius of G3 was given me as a birthday present. AE 28-32 mm, 20.54 g, RIC IV Gordian III 257. Minted in 238/9 : he was only 13...
[ATTACH] Shekel of Tyre, first half of the 4th c. BC. AR 12.80 g. Obv. Melqart holding bow and riding an hippocamp r. over waves and a dolphin...
:hilarious: Why not? one can see things like this... But, after all, the antoninianus can be seen as a successful innovation, it was the first...
I have also this one, Commodus standing on a platform addressing the Praetorian guard. I like the ghostly aspect of this very worn sestertius......
[ATTACH] Platform coins: Sestertius of Trajan. The platform must be called a tribunal, I think... It is a pity the reverse legend is almost...
1 : Damascus. Cf : https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1078324 2 : Scythopolis. Cf. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5196091 3 :...
This letter is not Aramaic, it is the Dadanitic letter Ḏal (= Arabic ذ ). This letter exists only in the Dadanitic script that is used on...
The Arch of Constantine relief is extremely interesting: it obviously shows a coin-counting device, a kind of tray the emperor pours into the...
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