I remember reading Lucan’s DE BELLO CIVILI / PHARSALIA for the first time because it treated in epic fashion the clash between Pompey and Caesar....
Sorry. Wait until Monday morning. I will be back in my natural habitat.
[ATTACH] Me and some high school friends yesterday getting together for the BOURBON AND BEYOND music festival in Louisville, Kentucky. I am...
Those are all excellent observations Finn. Constantine had himself buried surrounded by representations of the 12 apostles, as if he were a second...
More good questions. I’m much better at producing questions than answers. I also wondered if the matter varied by denomination. Would Constantine...
Yes, Eusebius describes this coin in his VITA CONSTANTINI. Of course, what Eusebius doesn’t stress is the way in which that Christian and solar...
BTW, if I had to choose one biography for the layman to read, I’d have to go with Stephenson. Very thorough and accessible. Barnes’s erudition,...
I think I have asked this question in some form before, but I’d like to try again since I’m still searching for an answer. Put simply: How much...
No limit. But I've recently tried to focus more on quality over quantity. I probably have somewhere around 250+, but much of it consists of...
A real one. Note that it looks genuinely ancient. That doesn't always guard against fakes. But a coin that appears "hot off the press" like yours...
Poor quality photo. But this is what the sexy Saxon is wearing this fall. Gold coins look Byzantine / early medieval. From the British Museum....
HBD James. My father turns 82 on this very day! Here's a lovely gift from a lovely person--Constantine, ex-Jamesicus: [ATTACH]
2528 silver coins. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-49487078 TEXT: A huge hoard of silver coins dating back to the aftermath of the...
Thanks Victor. So do you assume that PRINC should be expanded to a singular and not a plural? The plural expansion seems to be the more common...
Those are illuminating questions, Sulla. I was not aware of the Maximinus II Daia use of the reverse type. And the Theodahad "reception" of a...
[ATTACH] I am writing to gather some thoughts about the Latin expansion of the long inscription on the VLPP “two victories” reverse type of...
Sorry I'm late to the Farnese party. Constantine. [ATTACH]
Wow. Stunners.
Oh, with Mauseus it’s in good hands.
So where is the real medallion now? I thought it was stolen. Is it indeed in a museum in Arras?
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