Toned a copper color ? Probably cleaned by electrolysis.
It's true that in France a property owner is not the owner of historical objects found in his property. If you dig out gold ingots in your own...
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Technically this video is very well made, I wish I could make videos like that. But that's not history at all. AI created images cannot illustrate...
looks like a coin of Smyrna
Yes, you're probably right, this denarius was issued before Vespasian's arrival in Rome. The portrait still looks very much like a portrait of...
[ATTACH] Alexandria, Antoninus Pius, AE Drachm (34mm), year 9 = 145-146. Obv.: ΑYΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝEΙΝΟC CΕΒ ΕΥC Laureate head r. Rev.: L...
bearded portraits... [ATTACH] next : facing portrait(s)
In Hellenistic and Roman times private and public libraries used to be adorned with busts of the classical authors whose books were available...
[IMG] Nero, AE semis, Rome 62-68 Obv.: NERO CLAV CAE AVG GER P M TR P IM: head of Nero, laureate, right Rev.: CERTA QVINQ ROM CO / S / S C: table...
[ATTACH] Philip Jr. (Aug. 246-249), sestertius, Rome IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, drapezd and cuirassed bust right LIBERALITAS AVGG III / S...
Trajan's annexation of the Nabataean Kingdom, Arabia, took place in 106 AD. It was a vast kingdom extending from Bostra (now in South Syria) to...
My Crispus / campgate is not from Constantinople but from Arles [ATTACH] RIC VII 271
you should not ask questions like that, people here are not machines or AI. Please group together the obverse and reverse of the same coin. Give...
Kingdom of Naples, Charles II, AE grano, 1680
Allectus (293-296), antoninianus minted in Londinium (London) rev. VIRTVS AVG , galley
minted in Alexandria, Egypt
[ATTACH] Anonymous, Antioch (c. 312 AD under Maximinus II Daza ?). AE 15 mm, 1.55 g, 12 h. Obv.: IOVI CONSERVATORI, Jupiter seated left on...
[ATTACH] Justin I (518-527). Follis minted at Nicomedia. next : Nicomedia
It's the big African black rhino who fought against a bull and a bear in the Colosseum. There are epigrams of Martial about these fights. He also...
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