You could suspect a hoard if the coins were completely unknown and unpublished ones, and all of a sudden not one but several specimens surfaced in...
Like everybody here I think it is a fake.
I like the porphyry statue of the Four Tetrarchs. It sends a clear message about the new nature of the imperial power. It is in porphyry, a...
The 1st coin is a Nabataean unit of Aretas IV and Shuqilat. Aretas IV reigned from 9 BC to 40 AD. His 1st wife was queen Huldu, who probably died...
What did they do with the 30 silver coins - probably shekels of Tyre - Judas received for betraying Jesus and, according to different versions, he...
I think the 1st city that issued fixed denominations in bronze is Rome in the 3rd c. BC. ● : uncia ●● : sextans ●●● : quadrans ●●●● : triens S :...
Our obverse die linked specimens are very close to each other. I bought mine... in a gas station in the outskirts of Amman, Jordan. I had my car...
[ATTACH] This follis is much like robinjojo's specimen. Same obverse die, different reverse die but same double strike.
[ATTACH] Domitian quadrans... Nice basket!
This does not look ancient, especially the letters. For me, just from the picture, it's a fantasy modern object.
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[ATTACH] As, Q. Marcius Libo, 148 BC. Reverse : Q.MARC / LIBO, ROMA in exergue. Next up: a ship's stern.
There were many different Aramaic scripts. Why not a "B"?
The L just means "year". I don't know why. Coins minted in Roman Egypt always have this L for the date. Some cities in south Palestine did the...
The representations of Mount Argaeus on coins seem to have evolved. Under Archelaos (3-4 AD) the mountain looked like a small pile of [ATTACH]....
[ATTACH] Constantius Gallus, centenionalis from Antioch [ATTACH] Constantius II (he wears a pearl-diadem). Does the barbarian horseman have...
I don't know what it is supposed to be, but it is surely not a rhino. The Indians know very well what rhinos look like because they have plenty of...
The ancient Greeks rarely mentioned a city by its name, they more often mentioned it by the name of its citizens. Thucydides did not say "Athens"...
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