This coin is not particularly rare, it is not in good condition, it's just a small bronze coin almost 1900 years old... [ATTACH] Gaza, Hadrian...
[ATTACH] On this forum, I sometimes found the expression “good emperors” or “five good emperors”. According to Wikipedia, this notion was...
The emperor currently called "Elagabalus" is often considered one of the worst emperors Rome ever had, who allegedly devoted his reign to...
[ATTACH] Nero Drusus, sestertius, Rome AD 50-54. AE 36 mm, 27.15 g. I liked this coin because I didn't have any sestertius earlier than the...
This is a very worn coin : [ATTACH] Pisidia, Isinda (probably the modern village of Kişla, west of Antalya in Turkey), time of king Amyntas...
After people passed away, their relatives and heirs often have the sad duty to empty their houses, sometimes share between them some family...
[ATTACH] CILICIA, Aegeae. Valerian I. 253-260 AD. Æ 27mm. Obv.: AV KAI ΠOV ΛIKI OVAΛEPIANOC CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right,...
This summer I've been hiking along Hadrian's Wall in North England, from Wallsend (East of Newcastle) to Bowness-on-Solway (that's West of...
When planning a vacation in the wild, you sometimes find a friendly neighbour willing to feed the cat and water indoor plants while you're not at...
I already said on this forum that when I was a rogue youngster, I visited Greece and was hiking on the hill overlooking Eretria. And on the path,...
Last Sunday I was visting a museum and I saw this picture : [ATTACH] The Vocation of Saint Matthew, by Hendrick Ter Brugghen, c. 1620. He was a...
(None of these coins are mine, it's just a draft for a paper) The one-humped camel was domesticated in Arabia in the Neolithic period and reached...
I found in an box of stray old coins this silver one: [ATTACH] AR 25 mm, 4.01 g After a quick search on AC Search, I think it is a coin of 2...
It sometimes happened that the Rome mint, usually issuing SC bronze coinage for circulation in Italy and the western provinces, also minted...
[ATTACH] This is a denarius of Titus (marked with some banker stamp). What could I buy with it, back then? Under Titus 1 aureus = 25 denarii =...
Philip the Arab is very common on coins, Roman and provincial, but some historians think we know very little about him. Probably it’s because he...
[ATTACH] Lead sling bullet. 37 x 21 x 14 mm, 48.49 g. On one side is a winged thunderbolt, the other side is blank. These lead slingshot...
There has been for a long time in a drawer a small tetrobol of Arados I always suspected to be a forgery. [ATTACH] Arados, AR tetrobol, 3.42 g...
[ATTACH] Has anybody ever seen such a minute coin? AE 9mm, 0.71 g. The portrait on obverse looks a little like Antoninus Pius. it is probably a...
Collecting ancient coins is one thing for mere mortals like most of us, but it's a completely different hobby when you can rely on almost...
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