Most of us ancients coin collectors are familiar with the silver coinage of Cappadocia from the mint of Caesarea, which has given us some very...
I am trying to find out if there are any Roman coins, probably Republican denarii, that would have some connection to either Cornelia, first wife...
I have a pretty much run of the mill Victoriatus and thought I would try to find out a bit more about this coin. I know they were issued by Rome...
Last month we had a thread about who was the most decent of the Roman emperors and not surprisingly Antoninus Pius came in as the number one nice...
If one were to ask the average person to name a dangerous enemy of Rome, the most dangerous enemy Rome ever had, the answer might be in the form...
An odd request here. I am trying to find out if the Thraco-Macedonian city of Skione ever issued staters in the 9.8 gram weight size. I recently...
If there is one thing thing students of Ancient History know about that time period, it is that people of that time took religious belief very...
For those readers familiar with Plutarch you may know that in his Parallel Lives the author compared Julius Caesar with Alexander the Great, an...
I have what is probably a very common coin but the image just does not seem like the usual one for this emperor. The coin seems to be a common...
A few weeks ago I posted a thread on how bad was Nero. After thinking a bit about that one, I decided it was only fair to post a thread on his...
The phrase, The Last of the Romans probably rings a bell for most readers and contributors to Coin Talk, except that if readers were asked just...
If you were to conduct a "man-in-the-street" interview with passersby and ask them, "Do you know the names of some Roman Emperors", you would, no...
As we all know (or better remember) we are coming up to Mothers' day this Sunday and I thought it might be a nice idea to take a look at coins...
Most of us who collect in the area of ancients wind up with coins that are usually of the most common denominations. If we collect Greek we have a...
Oftentimes we write about our favorite ruler, king, emperor queen or empress and their numismatic connection or significance. I like it when we...
Most of us who collect ancient and medieval coins are also astute students of history as well and we are all familiar with those events that are...
A few days ago one of our members put up an image of a very early and rare Roman silver didrachma of the early to mid Third Century BC in...
Readers are asked to prepare themselves for the funeral of Gaius Julius Caesar scheduled for a few days after the Ides of this month. Yes we are...
I need some help with these coins. They are not mine. I was asked by a third party about them. The one in the red folder is obviously a tremissis...
It must be obvious to all of us that we seem to be in danger of a serious epidemic. World markets are reacting adversely to news of an incipient...
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