It's not Julius Caesar or Jesus Christ, it's Octavian as triumvir.
fake at first sight
Do you know its origin? It seems these Hercules / boar Trajanic quadrantes were minted for circulation in a certain region of the Empire...
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I don't think we should consider the turban as a typical Arab, Turkish or, generally speaking, Muslim headgear. And Antioch was probably not a...
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[ATTACH] AEL. FLACCILLA AVG. SALVS REIPVBLICAE , victory seated right inscribing christogram on a shield ; exergue CONA (Constantinople) Aelia...
Probably Seleucid. Could it be not a coin but a weight?
With your metal dectector, by removing all these nails, you just wiped off all traces of something or some things made of wooden boards.
A simple hypothesis : You should search Lampsacus, c. 4th c. BC... Your last coin has the Persian emperor on obv. (as on sigloi) and ΛAM on...
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I don't think so. In Latin, peregrinus means foreigner. In the early Roman Empire there were two kinds of people, the cives Romani (Roman...
[ATTACH] Obv.: CAESAR AV[G. PONT. MAX. T]RIBVNIC. POTEST., bare head right. Rev.: L. SVRDINVS [III VIR] A.A.A.F.F. around large SC. Moneyer :...
Four years ago, on 14.01.2020, a very strange coin was auctioned in New York by CNG: an aureus of Aurelian and Vabalathus. [ATTACH] AV 17 mm,...
What? When still a kid in the late eighties you bought from Claude Burgan this very decent owl ? How many golf courses did you mow before you...
Price 1967, minted at Magnesia on the Maeander in 319-305 BC. It's posthumous, of course, like most of the Alexanders on which Zeus' legs are crossed.
[ATTACH] Sidon (Phoenicia). AE minted under Claudius in AD 51/2. Europa riding the bull...
Obverse and reverse of two different coins.
Of course there are kneeling captives! I am sorry I was not clear enough: the client-kings or nations recognized as "friends of the Roman People"...
Thanks for the article, it's very interesting for me (I was just working on the Rex Aretas reverse, compared with the Arabia adquisita reverses of...
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