For those who think this virus and the accompanying trouble came out of nowhere, the Washington Post yesterday carried an article about a...
Pre unification of Aragon and Castile into the one Kingdom of Spain (maybe) I say that from the castle on coins of Castile.
The silver content of a denarius of Gordian III was still about 43 % pure which would still make producing counterfeit fourree coins profitable. I...
Your use of English, Herberto is quite good. If the author sounds vague it is probably because the sources are so vague and his use of what we...
For about $15 I'd have bought it.
That is very interesting and probably a good sign of authenticity.
Well. at least the frogs haven't shown up.
[ATTACH] I know most of us have read accounts from Ancient Times where plagues and epidemics have swept through city-states, kingdoms and empires...
Are you sure the coin is a tetradrachma? The weight you give for the coin is pretty light for anybody's tetradrachma, even the late Alexandrian...
Looks like workers were being paid "al marco".
I wonder if the reaction to the virus is doing more damage than the virus itself.
I'll check my own coinage later for any vexilla I might have but let me say right now how much I enjoyed reading your post on an item I have not...
Looking at your coins, I would say serving in the legions was a good career choice for you. By the way, General George Patton shared that same...
Any chance that there were two issues of the Sepullius denarius? One before his death without the star and one with a star inserted posthumously,...
Excellent write up by you as well. Worthy of Livy.
Readers are asked to prepare themselves for the funeral of Gaius Julius Caesar scheduled for a few days after the Ides of this month. Yes we are...
You may be entirely right about this but speaking of somethings being common on the market, I can think of few things as common and as cheap as...
Considering that a noted online coin forum is selling prutahs in pretty nice consition, similar in appearance, in batches of 25 for $10-$12 I...
Thanks. Armed with this information I should be able to narrow it down
If I am reading Harl correctly, those 6,000 denarii existed as only 240 nummi or one solidus in 323, and much less a few years on. Hoards of...
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