CoinHoards is a component of the National Endowment for the Humanities funded Hellenistic Royal Coinages project developed by the American...
This rather new video from hairstyle historian Janet Stephens demonstrates the earlier "column" hairstyle of Herennia Etruscilla, the wife of...
I have two examples of this common denarius of Julia Domna. Something is odd about the reverse on the first, and I suspect an overstrike. Anyone...
Martin Beckmann’s Diva Faustina: Coinage and Cult in Rome and the Provinces,* has clarified the dating and arrangement of the Diva Faustina...
Coins Weekly has a top 10 list. Faustina I came in #4. Post your choices for beautiful coins featuring women. [ATTACH]
[MEDIA] Worshiping the gods is a common theme on Roman coins. There were many ways to do so. One could pour a libation, a liquid sacrifice of...
The Latin word virtus means manliness, manhood, strength, vigor, bravery, courage, excellence. And what could be more manly than the emperor as...
Pudicitia is the personification of chastity and modesty. Because these were considered to be feminine virtues, this personification appears as a...
Step 1: Have a friend such as @Spaniard PM you about the existence of a coin he thinks you'd be interested in. Step 2: Look at the seller's photo...
In ancient Mesopotamia, doves were a prominent symbol of Inanna-Ishtar, the goddess of love, sexuality, and war. In classical antiquity, many of...
[IMG] Medal, France, AR 18.09 g, 35.0 mm, 12 h. Mathias Vivier, 1831. Obv: NUTRIX QUOQUE MATER, wet-nurse seated left, holding breastfeeding...
[ATTACH] Medal, France, AR 18.09 g, 35.0 mm, 12 h. Mathias Vivier, 1831. Obv: NUTRIX QUOQUE MATER, wet-nurse seated left, holding breastfeeding...
I purchased this one on eBay last night because I'd never seen anything like it. H/T to @Spaniard for informing me about it. The inscription is...
On this day, 29 May, 1453, Constantinople fell to the Turks under Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire. Post your Byzantine coins from...
This one is a new acquisition and I'm quite pleased with it. I like it, not despite its squarish flan, flan crack, and encrustations, but because...
Trajan ruled for nineteen years -- from 98 AD to 117 AD. He conquered many lands and grew the Roman Empire to its largest expanse in history. His...
The iconography on the reverse of this Roman provincial coin of Gordian III minted in Thessalonica perfectly epitomizes the Pythian games, for it...
Juno is the queen of the gods. As such, she is commonly featured on the coins issued for Roman empresses, for the empress was considered to be the...
No, I'm not talking about these guys ... [MEDIA] ...nor this piece, though it's very nice to listen to while you admire the coins in your...
Such coins are sure pretty in hand. It's a lifetime Faustina I issue, too! [ATTACH]Faustina Senior, AD 138-140. Roman Æ as or dupondius, 12.03 g,...
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