I know this area in Paris, near the Bourse (Paris Stock Exchange) and the Bibliothèque Nationale (and its Cabinet des Médailles). It may be called...
[ATTACH] Aelia Flaccilla (wife of Theodosius I, mother of Honorius and Arcadius) Obv.: AEL FLAC-CILLA AVG, bust right Rev.: SALVS REI PVBLICAE /...
Very nice specimen ! :woot: One day I found an affordable classic owl : [ATTACH] but the palmette on Athena's helmet has a curious shape, it...
I think it represents what is on the actual pedestal : a door giving access to the interior of the column (it is hollow, there are stairs to the...
[ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius, sestertius Obv.: M ANTONINVS AVG GERM TR P XXI[X], laur. head right Rev.: LIBERALITAS AVG VI IMP VII COS III / S C,...
[ATTACH] Cornelia Salonina, rev.: Pudicitia. AE antoninianus Next : another empress
[ATTACH] Trajan, sestertius... Next : a sestertius with more than 3 people on reverse.
[ATTACH] Claudius, Sidon (Phoenicia). Europa riding a bull. Next up: an hybrid human/animal creature
[ATTACH] PROPAGO IMPERI : the wedding of Caracalla and Plautilla...
[ATTACH] A young Caracalla! Next up : other emperor, same Indulgentia Augg. in Carth. reverse !
Very interesting ! Can you tell me why Bourges came to your mind? This coin belongs to somebody living near Chateauroux, 60 km from Bourges...
(Posted too late, but because Volusian is wanted, I am lucky !) [ATTACH] Volusian, 251-253 [ATTACH] Claudius Gothicus Next up: An antoninianus...
Most of the helmets found on this battlefield are what archaeologists call "Montefiorino-type helmets", after Gallic helmets found in 3rd c. BC...
And these are modern lower-case Greek letters! In the 17th c. lower-case Greek texts were printed this way :wideyed: : [ATTACH] ... and guess...
too late ! (but my Seleucid bronze was even larger !) grrr
The spelling Τραγκυλλεῖνα is attested on 3 inscriptions in Bulgaria, and on a 4th one from Romania. [ATTACH] The spelling Τρανκυλλῖνα is more...
We just have to compare this stone head with the already known Middle-East sculptures from the Neolithic to the Iron Age: there is absolutely no...
You surely understand this: people know you are interested in ancient coins, and sometimes they come and show you old coins they found or...
Well... very bizarre. I had better curb my enthusiasm. This head doesn't look like any Bronze age artistic style known in the region. It looks...
This is not surprising. In epigraphy too you can see that Greek language evolves. First of all ancient Greek was a mosaic of dialects: Ionian,...
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