I have seen these coins, but not commonly and I read your link. Do you know if these were produced as a general circulation coin? Silver did not...
It is instructive to actually see the coins of these uncommon denominations. Reading about them just does not have the impact of seeing them.
And had a son murdered in her arms, by her other son. I do not think life treated her well. And, by the way, that is the nicest image of Julia I...
I didn't know he issued the quinarius.
Be patient. Someday all of our present day coinage will be somebody else's medieval coins and after that they will become somebody else's ancient...
I didn't show the end to my students, just the beginning battle scene and one of the gladiatorial contests in the Flavian amphitheater.
Anyone familiar with the Marcomanic dialect of Old German and know what that giant of barbarian yells at the Romans while waving the decapitated...
I am not trying to be difficult or obtuse on this but for coin collecting purposes and whether a coin dated 1616 should or should not be labelled...
Yes, spectacle for sure, but thanks to a strategically and serendipitously placed pile of dung, not a fatal one.
Of course the Britannica would think that. Had England been involved in that war they might have seen it differently. Seriously, there is an...
Some historians take the Middle Ages to the treaty of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years War in 1648. That war started off as a war of...
Actually, it was pretty much a remake of an earlier movie with Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius and Sophia Loren as his daughter. I think that...
There are some coins that come from a time and a place where holes are often part of the average coin. When collecting coins of the 17th and 18th...
Interesting study, the language of the Etruscans with apparently no connection to any other existing or extinct language. Even considered odd by...
Yes, that's Antoninus Pius, probably the denomination called an As and from about 140 AD. If your next question is, "what is it worth/" with that...
I am not familiar with those coins. Were they issued by all the mints or just a few?
I must admit that although I very much like ancient Greek coins for their beauty and excellence in their minting process I am baffled by their...
I hate to admit this, but although I have been collecting ANCIENT coins, apparently for so long that they were just OLD coins when I started I had...
Good heavens! You are to be commended for your studies and for sharing your uncommon coins. It's better than I thought it would be and I must...
Now that is helpful to this discussion.
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