Nonsense? I could at least understand this point of view but, on this topic, the burden of proof must be on the seller and not the archaeologists...
It is a tetradrachm of Commodus minted in Alexandria, Egypt, in AD 187-8. https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14210
[ATTACH] Philisto-Arab drachm (AR 4.34g) imitating Athens... 353-343 BC.
Sand said it : these owls come from hoards. Ancient misers carefully selected the best coins they could find for their own secret piggy bank...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] my own specimens of the owl and the Lucius Verus sestertius...
No, I'm serious. Nobody wants the Smithsonian to give back the Hope diamond to anybody. Most of the artefacts that are on display at the Louvre,...
an example of the product: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broken_cast_denarius_sev_alexander_%28FindID_513001%29.jpg
I see nothing laughable in these coins. I like very much the little bronze of Smyrna with Homer on reverse!
Seriously, if I was walked along at Kalkriese, noticed a yellow spot on the ground and picked up an aureus, I would immediately hand it over to...
I think the loot from Spanish galleons is still the property of the Spanish crown, or may be claimed by the country in the territorial waters of...
The same law exists in most Western countries. In France it is Article 716 of the Code Civil written by that good old Napoleon... The problem is...
Very respectfully too ;) Nice coins, the kind that makes the collector's pride, are rarely random lost coins. I had myself the opportunity of...
If ancient coins from Antioch are actually found in mint state in England (in which context?), it should be published in an academic article....
Of course they may be an everlasting discussion about the legitimacy of selling/buying ancient coins, repatriation can be discussed too... but...
Ancient coin hoards belong to the country in which they were found, if they were found after this country passed the appropriate legislation. But...
[ATTACH] Tiberius, as of Lyons next : even more patinas!
probably Upper left : Ptolemy IX, year 2 : 116-115 BC Lower left : Ptolemy XII, year 29 : 53-52 BC Lower right : Ptolemy IX, year 9 : 109-108 BC
Here are three coins I bought (very cheap) in Syria when I was a teenager visiting with my parents. [ATTACH] From left to right: Lucca...
[ATTACH] The Dea Syria Hierapolis (Mambij, Syria), Philip I or II, AE 30 mm Obv.: ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ϹЄΒ; laureate, draped and cuirassed...
Tuna-fish[ATTACH] Tuna-fish on a semis of Gades (Cadiz, Spain), 100-20 BC I don't remember right now what the neo-Punic legend means next : more...
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