I love parsing grammar. Deponent verbs, passive in form, active in meaning. Perhaps you could find something with an ablative absolute...
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I did not know they were silvered.
We had a discussion on this about a year ago on this site. There is some evidence, based on archaeological finds in the Holy Land, that Roman...
Question: what was the early Germanic term for the denarius in those Germanic languages, such as Ulfilas's early translation of the Bible into...
Start a fourree collection. A number of ancients collectors have a section of their collection of likely and definitely plated coins. I have found...
Donna, my father was a master metallurgist for a Swedish owned ball bearing concern, from shop floor to laboratory. Though I did not follow in his...
If these Republican denarii are genuine should they not have a specific gravity closer to 10.4? Although no Roman coins could be minted at 100%...
Thanks for those answers. By the way, I had never noticed the similarity between the crocodile and a war galley until you pointed it out. I'll...
Nice example Simply beautiful.
Great write up and following articles. I have always felt that these two guys, who literally on these Nemausus coins had each others backs, should...
I actually did not think there were any of either Cornelia or her daughter by Julius Caesar that depicted either of these two, as neither one was...
Well, I hope you find your Julia but the Julia I am after is Julius Caesar's daughter by Cornelia. Thanks for that interesting video of a very...
Yes, thanks. I had seen this. This source also has a similar drawing for Julia. Interesting that this source says that Cornelia was the SECOND...
Thanks. I had actually thought of something put out by Cinna, but I was hoping for a female obverse, but thanks for the reply. I'll keep looking.
I am trying to find out if there are any Roman coins, probably Republican denarii, that would have some connection to either Cornelia, first wife...
The tetradrachmas of Tyre were know for their consistently high purity (fineness) and weight. From the images posted here, the issues of Trajan...
Now that's interesting. The deduction would seem to be, if this is indeed the case, that the Parthians were not familiar with plated coins because...
I just wondered if making plated coins was something as common among the Persians as among the Greeks and Romans. I don't recall either these...
And rightly so.
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