My "best ugliest" Roman coin is this dupondius of Galba : [ATTACH] Wonderful portrait with dark green smooth patina, but........
Is this late 18th c. statue of Fabius "cunctator" appropriate? The dictator is represented as a very young man, a teenager, but Q. Fabius Maximus...
Matidia Augusta divae Marcianae f(ilia) : "Matidia Augusta, daughter of the divine Marciana". She was Trajan's niece and Hadrian's mother in law....
[ATTACH] Byzantine follis, anonymous class C, Constantinople 1034-1041 Obv.: + EMMANOVHΛ , 3/4 length figure of Christ standing (icon of the...
Very nice follis ! I like them. Your follis is one of the finest I have seen. [ATTACH] My specimen is very far from that. But I like it for its...
I just have the pics but I don't have the coins near me at present (I'm travelling). I can just post the pictures. [ATTACH] Tiberius, Antioch,...
I don't think it's supposed to be French. it's Latin. AC : Ante Christum (Before Christ). AD : Anno Domini (Year of the Lord).
[ATTACH] Arcadius, AE4, Alexandria. I don't remember the module, something like 11 mm Obv.: D N ARCADIVS P F AVG, diademed bust right Rev.:...
I admit 4 x 6 meters is a challenge, if one likes to hang it in his house. We had the same kind of problem, with a smaller painting, just c. 3.5...
Let's share my very small Ptolemaic collection [ATTACH] Ptolemy II Philadelphos (285-246 BC). Alexandria. AE Hemiobol, 24 mm, 10.18 g. Obv.: Head...
"Trophy tableau" monuments are a very interesting conventional iconography. During the late republican and the imperial period, the bound captives...
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I don't think the portrait looks like Pompey Magnus. It's not his hairstyle. [ATTACH]
More hair? [ATTACH] What about Shapur I's hairdo? Knowing that the veiled globe on top of his head is filled with hair, too? We can also...
Very bizarre... It's the reverse of a denarius of Clodius albinus, OK, but the obverse looks like a forged denarius of Aelius Caesar. Are you sure...
It is incredible that an exceptional never seen before gold medallion of Diocletian can legally be auctioned in a civilized country without any...
My only "tribute penny" is 1) fourrée 2) holed I don't know if it has been holed on purpose, in order to withdraw it from circulation, because it...
[ATTACH] Titus denarius with a banker's mark (or was it in conformity with the ISO technical standard?) Next up : Banker's mark or countermark
[ATTACH] This antoninianus of Antioch has absolutely nothing special. Its'not rare at all, it is not in silver, or even billon, and if it may have...
Of course it's an owl. Minerva's owl. Like on Attic coins since the 6th c. BC...
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