The metal work of that celator is worthy of an insect textbook.
I don't think Stoics minded eating meat as long as it did not taste TOO good.
Do I detect a resemblance between the two? First time I have ever seen a table setting and meal on an ancient coin.
Is that an olive branch wreathe around it?
Aren't those Metapontum coins lovely?
You know, I don't think I have ever seen a crustacean imaged so accurately on any coin, ever. By the way, thanks for the response. I was starting...
Well, with a title like this, I'll bet the more inquisitive posters have opened this one. I got the idea for this topic from a custom at our...
That's interesting, as a light weight is usually an indication of a plated coin but yours is pretty close to the average for these coins.
Well I noticed the OP wrote, "if you like looking at the coins of Augustus". Well, I do and I'll take this opportunity to post some of my own. I...
Doug, I too, have noticed the large number of fourrees from this period. Would you care to venture an opin ionion why this might be so?
More likely, PHILIPPOU, genitive singular of Phillip of Macedonia meaning (coin or tetradrachma) of Phillip. These were issued during the reign of...
Thanks. I had no idea that this book was out there. As it turns out I just finished the Richard Duncan-Jones Jones book on Money and Government in...
Good point. Now if i can just find some.
It may mean just that. There is an article put out by Kevin Wilkinson. "Some Neologisms in the Epigrams of Palladas" put out by the GRBS Library...
I am not sure what you are saying. Is it that Palladas' use the singular for follis and indicates that there is a single coin named a follis?
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Most of us who collect ancients are well aware of the names of the different denominations of coinage from drachmas to...
Possibly repurposed as buttons. On 18th Century military regimental coats the large, facing buttons were fastened using one hole. I thick string...
Probably louder than the tractor towed 105's. I found the Gothic word for cursed in the Ulfilas translation. This is from Mathew, 5:14. Assuming I...
Thanks. Next time I'll try turning up my hearing aids and listen for verfluchte. That sounds reasonable in the context and of course, unless the...
Now you guys have me really interested in this. I have studied Greek, German and Latin at the university level and absolutely love it when a movie...
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