From Balzac's Eugenie Grandet : "Dear cousin!" whispered Eugenie, throwing down the letter and running softly back to her room, carrying one of...
Interesting debates ahead about the mint place of some Punic coins. If minted in Carthage they'll be stricken with a 55% tariff (Tunisia). But if...
I don't have any Volkano coin, but I think this vacation picture in Italy may be relevant [ATTACH]
[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...
There were probably some Roman denarii, but the majority must have been Nabataean sela'im.
A few coins from Caesarea Maritima (or Caesarea Palaestinae) [ATTACH] Titus, Caesarea, AE 22 mm, 12.27 g, 12 h. Obv.: worn out legend: [ΑΥΤΟΚΡ...
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Of course it's not a gator :) but a Nile crocodile. The crocodile in ancient Egypt was a god called Sobek. [ATTACH] The Romans, not the Greek,...
[ATTACH] Antiochos IV Epiphanes, AE double, Tyre - dated LΘΛΡ (year 139 = 174/3 BCE). An elegant stern of galley...
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There are ancient Greek and Roman coins that represent not a whole ship but just parts of ships : the stern, the prow, even just the bronze ram of...
Two small coins of Sidon : [ATTACH] On this 5th c. BCE AR 8 mm 1/8 of shekel, we see the Persian overlord on obverse (or perhaps some male local...
[ATTACH] Sometimes in history great empires rise and fall, great peoples with former great accomplishments become a bunch of idiots. In 1734...
[ATTACH] Young Caracalla, AR denarius. Rev.: INDVLGENTIA AVGG / IN CARTH(aginem), Juno Caelestis holding sceptre and thunderbolt riding lion...
I am 80% sure this empress is Julia Domna. With a coin that is so worn, the only visible difference with Manlia Scantilla's profile is the angle...
Turreted head? She looks more like the late queen Elizabeth II.
On the side of the french motorways there are brown signs showing local places of touristic interest (monuments, nature, etc.). The places you can...
Why call them "usurpers"? The "Gallic Empire" was a breakaway empire, the result of a secession, but this kind of situation often happens in...
Is this ancient? I'd say Ottoman, 18th-19th c AD
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