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"What Would Santa Do ?" : excellent !!! That'll be my motto for the days to come.
[ATTACH] This small one (5th-6th c.) is anonymous. The Greek legend on reverse is TOYTO APECH TH XWPΛ "may this please the country".
While we're at it, is this coin the same? The knot pattern is losanges, not squares... [ATTACH] Thanks in advance !
St Nicholas is believed to have bee buried in Myra, Turkey. When I visited this place in the early 1990s, all the tourist shops were full of...
On the tetradrachms, which are often found in decent condition, they made her look like Antony... Same face !... She is ugly on these silver...
For coin collectors, Cleopatra VII is one of the most sought after of all ancient rulers, together with Julius Caesar. Her best portraits are...
When I read the title, "the Tears of Cios", I first thought about the picture by Eugène Delacroix, "Scènes des massacres de Scio : familles...
[ATTACH] Severus Alexander, AE 38 mm, 27.84 g. Tarsus, Cilicia. Obv.: AV K CЄOVHPOC AΛЄΞANΔPOC / Π / Π, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of...
Late Roman coins can be found in North America. The Europeans in the 17th-18th c. sometimes used them for trade with the Indians. Hoards of LRBC...
YES !!! That's it ! Thank you so much, and congratulations !
Please, could you identify this little AE 16 mm ? [ATTACH]
Jesus Christ could have had this coin in his pocket. This coin could be a holy relic, who knows?
In other terms, after Brexit he tried to reintegrate the Empire.
In the late Roman Empire, the word sacer, sacra or divinus, divina just meant "imperial". "sacra moneta" or "sacra pecunia" meant "imperial mint".
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Severus Alexander wanted to be a "normal" emperor. He is depicted sacrificing dressed as a traditional Roman imperator, wearing the toga. Not like...
In fact these Mamluks were the hard core of the army controlling Egypt back then. Most were children taken away from Christian families, sold as...
This denarius is in mint condition ! I like it :woot:
[ATTACH] Severus Alexander, sestertius. AE 30 mm, 14.64 g, 12 h. Rome, 232. Obv. : IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust...
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