I have to admit that I frequently re-read Harl from time to time, not just because he is informative but just because it is a pleasure to do so.
Ah a gentleman and a scholar.
Thanks for calling in the cavalry. Thank you so very much. Can you decipher any more of the lettering on the Angevin penny? Is the whole legend...
Thanks for that info.
Medieval is not my strongpoint. I acquired a couple that I need help with, two what are pennies or perhaps one is a denier. The one is probably an...
I always wondered what those things were hanging from Justinian's ears and now I know. Given that the Byzantines did things so ornately I did not...
Whether it's at a show or on line what I most look for in a coin is its appearance. I like my coins with a smooth surface, if bronze, then light...
Your coin is an exemplar of how beautiful the Greeks could make a coin.
That N marked coin shows a very young Jupiter. Interesting.
Like you, Doug, and probably most members, I have not been to a show for some time but I just got my third booster shot last week and a local club...
I once purchased a Gordian III double denarius at a price I considered low but thought that was because it was so common. Turned out even THAT...
Yes, but of which Caesar, Julius, Augustus or Tiberius?
Whoever issued them, they do have some value as numismatic antiquities and probably a few obvious ones belong in a collection of ancients. But,...
Actually I believe that Pirenne's thesis is still worthy of much respect. His thesis that the Arab conquests turned the Mediterranean from a body...
Did Rome fall in 476 AD? That depends on the definition of two things, Rome and fall. Sorry to be so pedantic but the answer really does depend on...
I don't know who made the decisions on Mel Gibson's movie about the last days of Jesus of Nazareth with the the Roman soldiers speaking Latin, but...
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