Well... This coin looks very much like the tetradrachms of the big Rafah hoard found in 2010, but it's not one of them. I don't know if the obv....
If it had been a genuine discovery, and not an hoax, it would have rewritten nothing. There were many people who travelled between Western Europe...
Yes, a tetradrachm of Sophytes, king of Baktria. But I could not positively explain why, the one on your avatar looks weird to me...
This is one of the best bronze coin cleanings I have ever seen.
I am sorry to be positive about this but, like all others, I think this tetradrachm is a fake. And the one on your avatar looks fake too.
It could even be that your coin and the well-preserved example of the RPC website are an obverse die match. [ATTACH]
Don't you think the portraits of Julian as Caesar have oversized ears?
Curious theory... Where did you find it? What if the mint supervisor had been named Lucius Aurelius Stercorius? [ATTACH]
Even before I scrolled down to see the reverse, I could recognize the style of the Thessalonica mint. The obverse die of this coin was perhaps cut...
Two coins of young and older Julian. I like the off-centred little AE3, for its nice portrait. [ATTACH] Julian as Caesar, AE3, Alexandria,...
It's a coin of Maximinus Thrax, from Perge, Pamphylia. RPC VI, 6189 (temporary) [ATTACH] https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/6189
Here are my Tetricusses [ATTACH] There is also an imitation : [ATTACH] ... and Tetricus Junior ! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The propylaeum of Baalbek was built under Philip the Arab, that's why it is represented on his wife Otacilia's coins. [ATTACH] Today we can...
Jesus Christ King of Kings
[ATTACH] Four letters, from t. to l. : G, M, L, T. That's Gamilat, Rabbel II's queen. It cannot be anything else. The chiseled flan and the...
Israel is the only country I know where the random (or scientific) find of an ancient bronze coin is announced in the press. And if it's an...
Same coin as yours, but from Beroia (Aleppo, Syria) [ATTACH] Obv.: Illegible legend. Laureate bust of Trajan right. Rev.: BEPOI / AIωN / Γ in wreath
Hessen and Rheinland Celtic coin?
Gore Vidal : he was in Federico Fellini's Roma : [MEDIA]
[ATTACH] Tyrian stater (thick fabric), AR 12.80g, c. 400-380 BC. I bought it (after much discussion) in an obscure shop in the old city of...
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