Trapezopolis... in Greek "the Table City". It was in Caria, now South-West Turkey. It was a Greek city with its citizens, its institutions, its...
When you have only a limited budget it is possible to create a much eye-pleasing collection of Roman coins by focusing on common coins, very...
Sorry, the pic is too blurry. It is possible to take sharp and focused pictures, even with an ordinary smartphone.
[ATTACH] Gordian III, sestertius, Rome 238/9 Obv.: IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right Rev.: PROVIDENTIA AVG /...
[ATTACH] Already posted, but I like this portrait...
Yes, why not? They should at least publish a high res photo of this coin. For the moment nobody can make hypotheses from this blurry pic of a coin...
When Postumus seized power in 260 and started minting coins in Cologne and Trier, he immediately introduced a new type of imperial portrait. Since...
[ATTACH] This is a denarius of Titus (marked with some banker stamp). What could I buy with it, back then? Under Titus 1 aureus = 25 denarii =...
[ATTACH] Justin I: Follis (Nicomedia) Half-follis (Antioch) Pentanummion (Antioch). Probably the last coin with the Tyche of Antioch on the...
Congratulations! I always wished I had such a cabinet.
[ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, Ephesus, AE 35 Obv.: Τ ΑΙΛ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΝΤΩΝƐΙΝΟϹ, laureate head of Antoninus Pius, r. rev.: ƐΦƐϹΙΩΝ / ΔΙϹ ΝƐΟΚΟΡΩΝ, temple...
If you want to figure what 500,000 aurei could mean, let's do some maths c. AD 244, the Gordian III aureus was an average 5 g gold coin. 500,000...
This sum is mentioned on a monumental trilingual inscription of Shapur, at Naqsh-i Rustam near Persepolis. There is a Greek, a Persian and a...
Nice coin ! :) but it's not a denarius, it's an antoninianus of Otacilia Severa. Her bust is on a crescent...
Philip the Arab is very common on coins, Roman and provincial, but some historians think we know very little about him. Probably it’s because he...
I am sincerely sorry for this...
[ATTACH] Honorius, AE4, Antioch (406-408) Obv.: D.N. HONORIVS P.F. AVG., pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right Rev.: GLORIA ROMANORVM ,...
15th century, now There were lords and top merchants counting their florins and écus d'or. And there were peasants, humble fishermen,...
I don't have any coin that could be documented in some important collection catalogue. Most of mine were bought when I was much younger and...
I found your coin, it's a 2nd-1st c. BCE AE 16 mm of Sardis (Lydia), magistrate Lyras Menogenes. Greek and Roman Provincial Coins - Lydia vol.4,...
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