In ca. 220s BC the Boeotian league issued bronze coins with Demeter facing on the obverse and Poseidon on the reverse. The coin I obtained is of...
Some of you might remember one of my first coins, which is a drachm from Rhodos with a butterfly on the reverse. [IMG] Rhodes AR Drachm. Circa...
I am always happy to have a little piece of Greek art for a good price. Even though it is out of my 'normal' collection area for Greek coins, it...
I was browsing and I noticed a Rhodos didrachm having the exact same obverse design as a Rhodos hemidrachm. Is this an unusual practise? I read...
This is one of the three coins that I won some time ago in the last big Künker auction somewhere in March. However, I decided to do a write up...
I got some cheap bronze coins from the Thessalian League, they are kind of interesting and the Thessalian league seemed to be minting coins long...
Rhodos is very well known for all it's beautiful big silver, but big bronze coins are not that known. The only two big bronze issues on Rhodos are...
I am a great fan of the (quasi-municipal) coins issued by Alexander I Balas and Antiochos IV Epiphanes and I have obtained this great specimen of...
I was not aware of a Thracian dynast named Adaios who was strategos of the Seleukid empire and minted coins in his own name, an interesting guy....
During the Cretan war of 205 to 200 BC, Rhodian commanders struck and issued Rhodian-type coins on Crete. Later on in ca. 200-185 BC, local Cretan...
I have been looking for this coin quite some time, but I found the price a little too high for what I wanted to pay. Until I won this one, with a...
This coin is somewhat an impulse buy, but the coin somehow attracted me, it is not like the other Alexander tetradrachms. [IMG] Alexander III the...
I have a weakness for these Seleukid usurpers, and the whole civil war chaos of the Seleukid empire in general. Alexander I Balas, one of the...
This is my second and third Roman coins in my collection. When I saw those 2 coins I could not resist buying them. First is a follis from...
I obtained a siglos from Peiraeeus in Pontos, or for most people, the name "Amisos" is more familiar. [IMG] Pontos, Peiraeeus (Amisos) AR Siglos...
I have participated the first time in the auctions of Roma Numismatics and so far I am not very pleased. It started that I bid on this coin that I...
Happily I have obtained a Seleukid municipal bronze coin from the city Cyrrhus in Cyrrhestica. Coins from that city are not that uncommon for...
I have a nice idea that I want to base a part of my collection on. I was already determined to get all the Amisos coins during the reign of...
It was not my plan to get this coin anytime soon in my collection, but the price was very good for such a scarce coin in very good condition,...
My first (arrived) additions of 2019! :) Ekbatana was an old city that was refounded in the Hellenistic period. The identification of the monarch...
Separate names with a comma.
