This pentanummion (a 5 nummia coin) circulated in Antioch under Justin I (518-527). It represents the centuries-old statue of the Tyche of...
Ancient Roman very rare coins are generally unaffordable, when they are official imperial coins, and not, of course, mere mules. But there are...
It's not about coins. It's about something I saw two weeks ago, this monumental sculpture by the Columbian artist César Hénao, erected last year...
[ATTACH] AE 26 mm, 7.40 g Obv.: IMP CAES DOMITIANVS AVG PM (counter-clockwise), laureate head right Rev.: no legend, eagle on globe, [ S ] C....
[ATTACH] Claudius, Sidon (Phoenicia), AE 23 mm, 9.47 g, 12 h. 51/2 AD. Obv.: laureate head of Claudius, right Rev.: ΣΙΔΩΝΟ[Σ ΘΕΑΣ], L ΒΞΡ (in...
[ATTACH] Sometimes in history great empires rise and fall, great peoples with former great accomplishments become a bunch of idiots. In 1734...
On the side of the french motorways there are brown signs showing local places of touristic interest (monuments, nature, etc.). The places you can...
I already posted these two coins two years ago as a reply. I'd like to repost them now as a thread, in case somebody could tell me more about...
[ATTACH] Caracalla (198-217), antoninianus. Obv.: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, radiate draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from front Rev.: P M TR...
[ATTACH] Valerian (253-260), sestertius. AE 30 mm, 16.85 g. Rome, 255-256 Obv.: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG: Laureate and cuirassed bust, right...
The bronze coinage of ancient Carthage is rather boring. During 250 years, from c. 400 to 146 BC, it's always the same types : on obverse the head...
[ATTACH] Severus Alexander, AE 38 mm, 27.84 g. Tarsus, Cilicia. Obv.: AV K CЄOVHPOC AΛЄΞANΔPOC / Π / Π, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of...
Please, could you identify this little AE 16 mm ? [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Severus Alexander, sestertius. AE 30 mm, 14.64 g, 12 h. Rome, 232. Obv. : IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust...
It is a silver coin that seems to be much scarcer than generally said. [ATTACH] Marcus Porcius Cato the younger, quinarius, Africa (?) 47/6 BC....
Alexander the Great wearing Herakles' lion skin is a familiar monetary type, approved by Alexander himself. I like his elephant skin too. I don't...
Nemausus, today Nîmes, was a Roman city. Nemausus was made by Augustus a Roman colony to settle veterans of the Actium war. This is why it minted...
[ATTACH] AE 19 mm, 3.05 g This is what I think I could decipher, but I am not sure at all... : Obv.: head of veiled and turreted Tyche to right...
The Seleucid Kingdom is a most interesting topic in the general history of the Middle East. It was formally founded in 312 BCE, extended from...
[ATTACH] AE 19 mm, 5.61 g, 12 h. Obv.: head of a young diademed king to right The standing deity on rev. holds what is obviously a sceptre...
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