The last coin is not Nabataean, it is an Umayyad fals (1st half of 8th c. AD).
What happened to the INI letters? (DNIVSTINI ANVSPPAVC)
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Two 1/16th shekels of Sidon. The type can be found in Persepolis doors in Iran (early 5th c. BC) : [ATTACH] and this theme...
This Nabataean coin of Aretas IV is a numismatic enigma. Nobody knows what can be the broom-like object on the reverse. The hypothesis of a...
[ATTACH] My favourite worn coin. When in hand, looks like a gem.
You said this list would contain usurpers, too. I suppose you could add Postumus, Marius, Victorinus, Domitian II, Tetricus I and II, Carausius,...
I have the same problem with an online bookshop based in Massachusetts: they refuse orders from foreign countries.
I suppose he was joking :happy:.
A friend of mine used to say : "There are probably no authentic coins, only well-made forgeries."
[ATTACH] Domitian, as. The emperor sacrificing in front of a temple for the Ludi Saeculares in 88 AD Next up : an agonistic table
Because it is not sharp at all, especially the reverse which is a poorly designed imitation of a Messana (in Sicily) reverse of the 5th c. BC,...
The style does not look Athenian too much, thus an imitation. There is a circular incuse countermark on Athena's cheek, they probably understood...
I have been working on a hoard that contained several kinds of owls : Athenian tets of the 5th c., Egyptian Buttrey types (B, M and...
These unmarked pseudo-Athenian coins can only be attributed if we know where they are found. The question is complex. The Ashkelon 1989 hoard (CH...
I think it's a fantasy cast fake, sorry.
Louis VI the Fat as seen by popular French cinema (Jean-Marie Poiré's "Les Visiteurs", 1993) [ATTACH] An anachronism festival. The king's hairdo...
[ATTACH] well... there is a tiny dolphin in Neptune's hand. Next up : Caligula
:jawdrop: You found all this on the same day?
But are there any depictions of Marnas on coins, in the first place? In the Hellenistic period there were sometimes coins with a bearded and...
The "sign of Marnas" is generally seen as the Aramaic letter mem, and understood as the initial of M(arnas). This letter was already visible on...
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