When I was a kid, my grandaunt showed me a box in which there were several large old silver coins. It belonged to my great-great-grandparents but...
I cannot identify precisely this obol : [ATTACH] Alexander III, AR obol, AR 9 mm, 0.67 g. Obv.: head of Herakles right wearing lion-skin Rev.:...
[ATTACH] Philip II, sestertius Next: a coin whose find-spot is known
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Not worldwide. Winnie the Pooh is banned in China, and people who dare mention him face time in jail, since somebody posted this on a Chinese...
in French, maybe... But in Corsican? Does a Corsican ever confess anything? :muted:
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
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