Julia Iotape Philadelphus was the wife, sister, and cousin of Antiochus IV. Oh, the irony! Philadelphus is the Latinized form of the ancient Greek...
Post anything you feel is relevant! I can't get enough of these Gordy and Tranquillina marriage issues. This one was a steal! It's got Nemesis,...
I received this coin in the mail earlier this week: [ATTACH] Time of Commodus Quasi-autonomous AE 26.1 mm, 8.01 g, 5 h Ionia, Smyrna, Strategos...
Hi, gang! I hope you can help me. This was sold to me as a quasi-autonomous issue of Smyrna in Ionia, SNG Cop 1304. But looking at the coin's...
Another weekend acquisition--a sestertius of Faustina Junior. It's interesting to see the difference in detail between the devices on the reverse...
I love coins of Antonine women and I got a good deal on this one at auction. I thought I'd show her off. Post your Lucilla coins, Vesta coins, or...
The Greek goddess Nemesis appears on numerous ancient coins. On Roman imperial coins, she is typically depicted as winged, holding a caduceus or...
A couple of interesting features on this little provincial issue. The first is that the obverse legend reads ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΑ, a transliteration of the...
My sister did this word puzzle and felt she had to share it with her unkempt, bespectacled coin-collecting brother. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
An interesting collection would be the various bust types of Probus. Some of them are quite hard to come by, however. This one is one of my...
Post anything you feel is relevant, of course! This is an interesting coin because it seems to be underrepresented in the standard references and...
Inside the temple of Apollo at Daphne, just outside Antioch, a statue of Apollo seated on the omphalos at Delphi and facing left was an extremely...
Post anything you feel is relevant! Despite having 25 denarii of Faustina II, I didn't have this particular one. So, when the opportunity to buy...
From early in Nerva's reign. Post your Nervas! [ATTACH] Nerva, AD 96-98 Roman AR denarius; 3.38 g, 18.0 mm, 6 h Rome, Oct - Dec AD 96 Obv: IMP...
[ATTACH] Bulk lot specimen with a thick, detail-obscuring patina. There are three vertical dots between the two stars above the wolf on the...
I love Antonine women and this one is somewhat scarce, so I couldn't resist buying it. My 19th denarius of this empress. [ATTACH] Faustina II,...
The emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Elagabalus, AD 218-222, was the son of Julia Soaemias Bassiana and took his name from the sun-god of Emesa...
I purchased this coin from Stack's some years ago and, after researching it online, have been able to reconstruct its legends. The coin is from...
Interesting. I own this one: [ATTACH] And then there's this one from Münzen & Medaillen 37, November 23, 2012: [ATTACH] Post your die-clashes!
Ever since I purchased a Domitian Minerva denarius from @Ken Dorney , I have wondered, "What kind of bizarre garment is that on Minerva's back?"...
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