The emperor Titus' personal propaganda was mostly based upon his victory against the Jews. Many coins celebrating this achievement were minted in...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] These coins of the « Gallic Empire » of the 260s were a shock for me when I was a child. I don’t know why...
Jean de La Bruyère was a French moralist of the late 17th century. In 1688 he translated in French the Characters of Theophrastes, an ancient...
It's a budget sestertius, but it's one of my favourites. [ATTACH] Commodus, sestertius, Rome AD 185/6. AE 29 mm, 17.68 g, 6 h. Obv.: M COMMODVS...
[ATTACH] Geta, as, Rome 199-204. AE 25 mm, 9.97 g, 12 h. Obv.: P SEPT GETA CAES PONT (Publius Septimius Geta Caesar and Pontifex), draped and...
I have been lately trying to ID this bronze coin [ATTACH] Byblos - Julia Domna (193 - 217). AE 24-25 mm, 7.84 g, 1 h. Obv.: ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΔΟΜΝΑ CЄ(B?),...
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[ATTACH] NABATAEA. Aretas IV (c. 9/8 BC-AD 40), with Shaqilath I. Petra, AD 16-40. AE 15-18 mm, 1.66 g. Obv. Aretas, in military attire,...
This is just a very modest AE drachm from Alexandria I am sharing here. It is very worn, not rare, has nothing exceptional, but I like the...
[ATTACH] Lead sling bullet. Pb 45 mm, 63,43 g. I found it many years ago in Paris at the Marché aux Puces. Unfortunately I don't know its...
[ATTACH] Philip the Arab (AD 244-249). Æ (28mm, 14.08 g, 7h). Dated year 2 (AD 247/8). Obv.: IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, and...
My last acquisition I'd like to share here : a Ptolemaic AE30. [ATTACH] Ptolemy VI Philometor (180-145 BC), Alexandria, Faucher-Lorber series...
Two coins of young and older Julian. I like the off-centred little AE3, for its nice portrait. [ATTACH] Julian as Caesar, AE3, Alexandria,...
Four years ago, on 14.01.2020, a very strange coin was auctioned in New York by CNG: an aureus of Aurelian and Vabalathus. [ATTACH] AV 17 mm,...
Knowing that I like ancient coins, my colleagues (good friends indeed, i was moved) just offered me a scarce Gaulish coin, a nice one. It's a coin...
Many cities in the oriental provinces of the Roman Empire worshipped their own city-goddess called in Greek the Tyche, the Fortune or Destiny of...
Seleucid bronze coins are underrated collectibles. In the 3rd and 2nd c. BC the Seleucid kings minted not only silver tetradrachms - which are...
[ATTACH] Constantine V Copronymus, with Leo IV and Leo III, Æ follis. Syracuse, AD 751-775. Obv.: Half-length facing figures of Constantine V...
[ATTACH] In 1958, in Paris, a collector met with Jean Lafaurie, a numismatic scholar. He wanted to show him a hoard of 41 Roman gold coins (35...
[ATTACH] Syria, Leucas on the Chrysorrhoas (AKA Balanea), Septimius Severus, AE 20 mm, 6.40 g Obv.: illegible legend (?), laureate head of...
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