I'm sorry I don't have the skills to post images from other sites to here but if anyone wants to see the colorized, reconstructed images one can...
No coins here but i have observed that camels are not common on ancients until about 100 BC. I understand that they were not domesticated until...
Someplace on the internet there has got to be the image of Phillip made some years back of a skull from this tomb purportedly showing the damage...
Are they the same coins?
I don't know if the Germanic people used coins like this but those who lived near the Rhine traded with Roman cities along that River on the Roman...
Thanks and especially for the source as Livy.
Sulla, good write up. I am very much interested in prices of goods in ancient Rome, which, of course, in the case of grain, must have varied...
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That portrait is excellent. His denarii are often badly struck and this drachma is evidence that provincial mints could sometime do a better job...
It's on the light side for Republican denarius. If what I see at 5 o'clock is a fleck of silver on the reverse it may be a fourree with most of...
Like you I studied only Attic Greek at the university level and a bit of Koine Greek in the seminary. But if I recall correctly, Syracuse was a...
That top one is museum quality, very, very nice.
Just looks like it was well travelled in its circulation period. Think of the tens of thousands of Byzantines fingered that coin, maybe at the...
If I am not mistaken the SPQR still appears on manhole covers on the streets of Rome. If so, just think of them as extra large sesterces.
Like all contemporary writings Pliny's works are a window to the the thought pattern of the Ancients but like most, almost all writers of that...
Gratias tibi ago, magister.
Yes, but so is the "i", according to White's Latin dictionary. Since Latin never puts the accent on the ultima (last syllable in a multi syllabic...
Those familiar with Classical Latin and its pronunciation know that circa the time of Cicero and Virgil the diphthong, AE was pronounced the same...
Outstanding write up and coins. I never really paid attention to the canines on my coins. I'll have to take a look and see what I have.
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