[ATTACH] C. Cassius, Libertas driving quadriga Next up : A Roman provincial quadriga
At what level of tooling does a coin become a mere fake? This 27 mm AE obol just looks like a modern fake, not at all like an EF ancient coin.
Nobody knows what happened, why the town was abandoned. There are traditions about Muhammed declaring the place and its wells forbidden. Haram!...
In medieval Europe the intellectuals were mostly priests and monks, all people who must take vows of poverty. Teachers, professors, scholars are...
In our Western civilization, academics never made much money... In Goethe's Faust, Dr Faust makes a lucid assessment of his life and career:...
Well, in fact it's not a Lihyanite temple, these are Nabataean tombs in Mada'in Salih, Saudi Arabia, ancient Hegra. Hegra is only 20 km north of...
[ATTACH] GLOR-IA EXER-CITVS / SMKA: I think this Constantine Jr small follis was minted in Cyzicus... Next up: a coin with the late Latin...
It is not in my collection, it is in a museum in Gaza! In my collection I have an intermediate owl but with a Phoenician countermark like yours:...
This intermediate owl (not mine) has visited Cyprus! [ATTACH] The countermark on the reverse has 3 Cypriot syllabic characters. I am not sure of...
NERO CLAVDIVS DRVSVS... Bingo ! [ATTACH] Next up: GERMANICVS (in full script!)
The term "altar" is very ambiguous, because it is used for very different things. An altar can be a simple cubic or cylindric stone block, not...
[ATTACH] This siglos is like yours I think.
Nobody here has a Paphos or a Koinon of Cyprus coin showing the baetyl in its shrine? It's fantastic to compare the baetyl as figured on coins...
I saw Goscinny and Uderzo too, in 1966 or 67, and had a dedicace (but a mere dedicace) on my copy of Asterix and the Normans. When in UK I bought...
Thoughts and prayers for your comics collection of the 1960s... The same thing happened to my mom, who when a child had the almost whole...
Awesome...
Just wonderful, insanely wonderful... The Bilal is outstanding. And you have 12 000 of them ! ?! That's a library. Do you have also Mouminoux AKA...
!!! :wideyed: with Tardi, one of the greatest! and with an original plate by him that remained unpublished !!! it's insane. I cannot even dream...
[ATTACH]An Alexander tetradrachm, Tyre (Price thought it was Akko mint, but later research established it was Tyre). Regnal Year 24 of Azemilkos...
I should leave it alone, like it is. The malachite does not obliterate the legend or the type. It's an almost 2000 years old coin !
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