The period leading up to the reigns of Valerian I and Gallienus is often referred to as the "four bad years," in which Rome was fraught with...
Post your coins of Side, coins with die damage, or anything you feel is relevant! Background: Side (modern Selimiye)[1] was the principal city...
In the course of researching this coin .... [IMG] Otacilia Severa, AD 244-249. Thrace, Bizya Æ 23.5 mm, 6.89 gm, 7 h. Obv: M WTAKEIΛIA CEBHPA...
Post your coins depicting Felicitas or anything you feel is relevant! Felicitas was the personification of happiness, good luck, and prosperity....
If one studies the coinage of Trebonianus Gallus and Volusian, it becomes apparent that certain issues of the Rome mint feature reverse types with...
Stags are such a common element on ancient coins that everyone can play! Post your coins featuring this hoofed beast! [IMG] Gallienus, AD...
The town of Dioshieron, which means "sanctuary of Zeus" in Greek, in Lydia was located in the upper valley of the Kaystros River (Greek Κάϋστρος,...
Lord have mercy! This tasty bit of jazzy funk was released just today and I just can't get enough of TOP! [MEDIA] "Tower of Power" reminds me of...
I have compiled a list of all denarii issued by Marcus Aurelius for his wife Faustina II and have studied the hairstyles depicted thereon....
Post your coins from Apameia or anything you feel is relevant! I'm not superstitious, but when a fortune cookie gave me permission to expand my...
Of course it's a repro ... [ATTACH] But this one of Marc Antony is real: [ATTACH] Antony and Octavia. AR cistophorus, 25.6 mm, 11.71 gm....
The city of Flaviopolis in Cilicia, also known as Flavias, is shrouded in mystery. The city was founded by Vespasian, as part of an imperial...
Off the wall hypothesis, but these raggedy, oblong flans make me wonder if they were made by some sort of rolling machine or rolling pin before...
This one just arrived in the mail from the latest Leu web auction. When I purchased it, I noticed that Mattingly* notes a dot after the obverse...
Let's face it -- we all have to eat and most of us never have to worry about starvation. That was not the case for ancient peoples, who were...
Post anything you feel is relevant! This particular issue of Faustina I, depicting Pietas with her hands upturned in supplication, is scarce....
Aequitas, the Roman counterpart to the Greek Dikaiosyne, was the personification of equity and fairness, particularly in commerce and business....
This veiled bust sestertius was issued in AD 150 as part of a series of coins bearing the AETERNITAS reverse legend to commemorate the tenth...
I had a bad bout with the flu last week. I got pneumonia as a complication and had to go to the ER on Thursday and am at last on the mend. The...
These coins are quite common and over the years, I have accumulated nine different reverse types of Faustina Junior coins from Pautalia in Thrace....
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