[ATTACH] 1 : late 4th century imitation of a FEL TEMP REPARATIO coin, fallen horseman type. 2 : Antoninus Pius (138-161), as of Antioch on the...
I found the paper I had read about this: https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/precolumbian-coins-in-america-pdf.1549009/
There was a paper about it but presently I don't remember which one. It was never a mass phenomenon. I was told this also in the 1980s by an...
in the 16th-18th c. Europeans in America sometimes used old small Roman coins for trade with the natives. These ancient coins were rarely accepted...
[ATTACH] Elagabalus, Antioch on the Orontes, AE 8 assaria (= like a sestertius)
[ATTACH] Constantine V Copronymus, with Leo IV and Leo III, Æ follis. Syracuse, AD 751-775. Obv.: Half-length facing figures of Constantine V...
https://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.P189
Ulpian, Digest [50.15.1.3]: There is also the colony of Laodicea, in Coele Syria, to which also the divine Severus granted the Italian Law on...
Yes, many anonymous folles have been found in Antioch See Princeton online coin database for example :...
[ATTACH] Pamphylia, Side, AR tetradrachm, c. 200 BC Obv.: Head of Athena r., wearing triple crested Attic helmet. Rev.: Nike flying l., holding...
Julia Domna, Emesa, AE 24 mm [ATTACH] Obv.: IOV[ΛIA] ΔOMNA [AVΓ]. , bust of Julia Domna right Rev.: [EMICΩ]N KOΛΩNIAC / ZKΦ : year 527 sel. =...
Nazi Germany was a legitimate state. The nazi government came from regular elections. Nazi Germany had business and diplomatic relations with all...
That's a recurrent problem with the hoards that have been dispersed and have not been examined by scholars: you rely on witnesses only. But you...
Anybody tried to swallow them before going to the airport and ... when at home?
[ATTACH] Augustus, As of Lugdunum, AE 23-25 mm, 11.03 g
[ATTACH] In 1958, in Paris, a collector met with Jean Lafaurie, a numismatic scholar. He wanted to show him a hoard of 41 Roman gold coins (35...
Fried eggs and bacon for breakfast are a major contribution of Great Britain to civilization. But just thinking of the industrial reddish sweet...
It happened in Europe too, in the same period. Cash coins were bronze coins of little value (see how many are needed to pay for a meal). There is...
According to the Chronica Urbis Romae, Severus Alexander gave the urban plebs a congiarium of 600 denarii for each citizen. That's quite a sum....
That's an old topic, but I could have joined the club and posted my own Lucius Verus handshake sestertius : [ATTACH]
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