Thanks for those thoughts. In my life of collecting, other artifacts in addition to coins, I have concluded that to collect items from some groups...
Yes, I think so. too. There is not much written about him because his life contained so little scandal.
I like to collect coins and currency with famous people on them. Not really hard to do, except that I like to collect images of people who have...
You can always use coins from before the First Century AD, as earlier, especially copper and bronze, remained in circulation for long after they...
Well the obverse makes it look like something of Nero's, but the reverse screams. modern token. Maybe something to drop into a slot machine.
As others above have alluded to, it may have something to do with the growing centralization of the powers of the Princeps. Janus was a reminder...
Without something in scale (a modern coin) next to them or their weight in grams it is a bit difficult. They look like cut up silver, possibly...
Keep in mind that at one time it was the custom to apply some kind of lacquer to coins as a preservative.
Now Henry II is a man I can admire, Eleanor not quite so much. It is to him that we can attribute the creation of English common law with its...
In the case of Cannae we rely on Polybius and Livy, but in this instance we can infer from the legions' present there no longer being mentioned...
At the battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War the Romans had about 50,000 of their soldiers killed in one DAY. How many more recent battles...
From what I understand of Richard he was quite comfortable living in a world of pain and misery, mainly because he created a good deal of it himself.
A bit more to the story, one of which involves a coin hoard. According to the story Richard was there besieging the castle of one of his vassals....
Thanks, guys for posting those pictures of the old, pen written paper envelopes of the ancient coins. I started collecting ancients ca. 1960 and...
On the Claudius Messalina tetra, wouldn't the date L (etous) Gamma be four years into his reign and maybe about 44-45AD?
Don't buy a handful. Get one really nice coin and study it thoroughly.
Wonderful, sage advice you are getting here. I would add just a bit. The Roman As and the Dupondius are usually less expensive than the Sestertius...
I would have guessed it to be a Paduan.
People have been celebrating this date ever since 222 as one of their "fasti days), except for the emperor himself who discovered this day as very...
A testament to the Persians at the gates in the East, the Germans on the Rhine-Danube, and a free for all of usurpers just about everywhere within...
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