[ATTACH] Commodus, AE sestertius, 31-34 mm, 21.50 g., 6 h. Obv.: L AELIVS AVRELIVS COMMODVS AVG PIVS FELIX, head of Commodus with short beard...
The same types were also struck on AE3: [ATTACH] AE3 of Arcadius, RIC X Arcadius 97 (401-403 AD)
I don't understand : these two deities with rudder and cornucopia are Fortuna: Fortuna Redux seated and Fortuna Felix standing. I never read...
Engraver error... or old well-executed tooling ?
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] When the Rome mint decided to forget mos majorum and issue modern coinage like everybody else...
This coin looks more like some dancing contest in the 1940-1950s... [MEDIA] (just saying, it's still Next up: Arethusa)
Fake. Look at the hair, and at the letters on reverse : the engraver did not know Greek letters.
Dio's tale is full of details, names, motivations, he even tells what the characters think. Dio's tale is written from the point of view of an...
[ATTACH]A Liberalitas VI sestertius... [ATTACH] An AE coin (= as) of Gadara, today Umm Qays in Jordan, overlooking the Tiberias lake. On...
or if you're really broke... [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] As of Tiberius, Lugdunum mint - RIC I (2nd ed.) Augustus 245 Next: the same coin but with Augustus
What is depicted on coins when they represent Mount Argaeus? This volcanic mountain, today Erciyes Dagi in Turkish, looks actually like this :...
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