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I have seen in Gaza (in better times) this hoard. H: 28 cm, weight 3.26 kg. The coins were late 4th c. AE4, for example Arcadius, rev. Salus...
Very nice coin !!! No elephant but a war galley? The message is the same. In Hellenistic kingdoms, elephants and war galleys were the symbols of...
Congratulations, this is an excellent specimen! This denarius minted in 82 BC is historically important. It is the first time ever that a Roman...
You can be sure the deity seated above is Fortuna, not Astarte. She wears a turreted crown and under her feet you can distinguish the typical...
Congrats for this very rare Basiliscus solidus. Here are my own late Roman silver and gold [ATTACH] Valens, AR siliqua, Trier mint, AD 367-75 -...
There is no "ceremonial quadriga" in Rome. The only moment when the emperor is standing in such a quadriga is the triumph. Severus Alexander...
The story of the finding is interesting, but I don't think it was an ancient hoard. If the guy could recognize a "deteriorated cloth sack", the...
An uncleaned half-follis of Tiberius Constantine, Antioch mint [ATTACH]
Seriously I think this is a cast fantasy fake. On Alexander lifetime and posthumous coinage, Zeus holds a sceptre, not a trident, never. The bird...
The Seleucids imported their elephants from India. The Ptolemies, Seleucid's arch-rivals, could not rely on the same commercial connexion. They...
Seleucid bronze coins are underrated collectibles. In the 3rd and 2nd c. BC the Seleucid kings minted not only silver tetradrachms - which are...
Coin #1 : Valentinian II, not I ! Coin #2 : Augustus, as, Rome mint, 11-12 AD (RIC 471) Coin #3 : like @Parthicus said Coin #4 : coin minted at...
[ATTACH] On this Pompei fresco you can see how Roman coins looked back then in the 1st c. On the left there is a pile of denarii and aurei. On...
In Rome you can change your name when you access to some form of supreme power. It's what the popes still do. The cardinal Jorge Bergoglio changed...
[ATTACH] Tiberius II Constantine, three-quarters follis, Constantinople Obv.: dm Tib CONS_TANT P P AVC, crowned, draped and cuirassed facing bust...
It can be a nice jewel for some lady....
I don't have an equivalent of this sestertius but I have this as : [ATTACH] Severus Alexander, AE as, Rome 231 Obv.: IMP. SEV. ALEXANDER AVG.,...
it must be a sestertius of Severus Alexander (222-235), reverse "Annona Augusti", same kind as this one (not my coin): [ATTACH]
looks more like a horse to me
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