I have what is probably a very common coin but the image just does not seem like the usual one for this emperor. The coin seems to be a common...
As a retired history teacher I would first want to see how much of it we got right, than it would be off to the future.
It's supposed to be a tetradrachma of Alexander the Great issued by one of his generals, Ptolemy, who managed to get ahold of Egypt in the...
Exceptional portraiture.
To offer an answer to my own question, what I find so pleasant about using this site is that virtually everyone on it wishes to share what...
Right on both accounts.
I pretty much agree with you. I think in Nero's case it had come down to a her or me situation and Agrippina was as a good a spouse as a black...
Why are posters on the Ancients portion of Coin Talk the nicest people on any discussion board anywhere?
Lovely, indeed. What masterful work did that celator accomplish.
Fascinating. I wonder why they were put there.
"No dictator can be that good". This reminds me of the story of Aristides the Just who one day discovered a fellow Athenian trying hard to write...
I have often thought that Pius had acquired, from somewhere, the old Roman Republic virtue of "disciplina", poorly translated as our discipline....
Harl, page 142, lists the Alexandrine tetradrachma of Marcus Aurelius at just over 12 % silver. He does not have a figure for that of Antonius...
I don't know if human saliva can damage coins but if I had seen that first sestertius you posted up there in person my drooling might have caused...
A well acquired addition to any collection. Looks like there is still enough silver in the tetradrachma to look like a silver coin. What do you...
I totally understand and concur.
Well put.
I think, in terms of the coin fabric and composition and the availability of the coins, the members of his extended family minted during his...
I am not sure that Antoninus could have done much to reduce the power of the Marcomanni and even if he had done that, there was always another...
I am not surprised that naked statues of Mars, advancing or not, would not survive too long into the Christian Middle Ages. If I recall correctly...
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