Thanks, this post needs to be archived. looking at the Ptolemies here I thought mine was probably a Ptolemy XII but as I look at the Ptolemy X,...
Thanks. After looking at that site I don't think I want to investigate Ptolemaic bronze at all. Whew, that's a lifetime of research and I should...
Thanks, Mike. Yes it does help as also the Valentinian write up. i was stating to wonder if anybody had much interest in the Ptolemaic coin series...
Anybody on the Ptolemy coin?
Thanks. I had no idea some of these were minted in Gallia. As for the Ptolemaic coin I actually thought I would get more responses on that than on...
I could use some assistance in nailing down a couple questions. First is the Ptolemy Tetradrachma. I can't tell Ptolemy the First from Ptolemy the...
I like the Claudius piece but I would have guessed it was an As.
That's exactly how I like my coins to look, well travelled but not exhausted.
Easiest way to differentiate the two is the writing On Parthian coins the inscriptions are in Greek (most people can recognize several of the...
Yes, you are using the term, "hoi polloi" correctly. It literally means , "the many" and describes the masses, what the Romans would call the...
But perhaps being "peregrini" in Rome indicates people whose first language was not Latin.
I don't think this applied to ancient coins, considering how clothing was fastened, (fibulae) but in 19th Century America the half cent piece is...
The use of a letter "K" for the initial C of castrorum makes me think the engraver's first language was not Latin.
Not many Roman women have been awarded the appellation of "to the mother of the camp". I wonder if she got that as the wife of Septimius or the...
This is not going to go over well with many people but the old Soviet Union, our Russian allies, not only suffered the greatest losses of the...
It certainly can be debased, that is reduced in value, simply by printing more and more of it. If an increased money supply goes hand in hand with...
For a while, over decades, if the purity of the coinage is reduced gradually, much of the populace won't notice. Yes, the purity of the denarius...
Looks Medieval, early modern. Communion token?
And the rest was history. Pompey and and Julius Caesar knew how to create armies loyal to them, not the Roman state, and these troops showed a...
No question about it. Marius and Sulla broke the mold. An army could be made totally loyal to its commander and the city of Rome could become its...
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