[ATTACH] Maurice Tiberius Year 8 (Antioch) [ATTACH] Maurice Tiberius year 14 (Antioch)
[ATTACH] Tiberius II Constantine, 3/4 follis (30 nummi). Constantinople
[ATTACH] Severus Alexander, Tarsus AE 37 mm. Next : larger than 37 mm
[ATTACH] Volusian, on an AE 31 mm of Perge, Pamphilia. (a rare coin, this one is one of 2 known specimens listed on the RPC website : RPC IX,...
[ATTACH] Would you call this Nero (it's an as) an heroic bust? [ATTACH] and this Gallienus too?
In Israel, the antiquities business is a real industry. There are the legal registered dealers who have shops in Jerusalem, the unregistered...
[ATTACH] This one has been found in Syria. Still jealous of people living there? ;)
it is likely a denarius of Quintus Pomponius Musa (Rome, 66 BC), Crawford 410/8.
Interesting, but I don't see what you mean... Could you please illustrate this with examples? Which "Edomite", which Lihyan coin looks like yours?...
[ATTACH] Elagabalus, 8 assaria, Antioch on the Orontes. Next : another Syrian provincial
Your coin is obviously an imitation : the celator reproduced the types while carving the dies, and the result is a mirror-view on obverse and...
There is no serious reason to attribute the OP coin or this coin to Lihyan. Dealers often call "Lihyan" any kind of crude imitation of Athenian...
Difficult to be positive w/o a better focused picture.
Sure, the 18 Avenue de Versailles is not in the Marais! It is in the XVIth Arrondissement, which is well-known for being the typical bourgeois...
Are you sure it is Serapis? This Zeus (he holds a thunderbolt) looks more like an Achemenid king. He does not wear a modius, but a Persian tiara.
I know very well this area of Paris for this is where I was living in my childhood. My high school was the Lycée Charlemagne, just next to the...
I do not know if it is open yet to visitors, but yes, they are currently preparing a new museum in the BNF with some highlights. Not only coins,...
[ATTACH] Emesa (Homs, Syria), Julia Domna, AE 24 mm Obv.: IOV[ΛIA] ΔOMNA [AVΓ]. , draped bust of Julia Domna right [EMICΩ]N KOΛΩNIAC / ZKΦ : year...
It is a coin of Ptolemy I Soter. Obv.: head of Alexander wearing elephant-skin Rev. : ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ , eagle standing left on thunderbolt,...
[ATTACH] Antiochos VII Euergetes (or Sidetes), 138-129 BC. Obv.: Bust of winged Eros right Rev.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EYEPΓETOY, Isis headdress,...
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