[ATTACH] My Justin I follis is from Nicomedia ... but I also have a half-follis from Constantinople: [ATTACH]
In fact this is not a temple, it represents the niche which was in the interior of a temple and was its focal point, the most sacred place. These...
The Christians already called Jerusalem in Greek "Η ΑΓΙΑ ΠΟΛΙC ΙЄΡΟΥCΑ[ΛEM]" (the Holy City Jerusalem) in the 6th c, as you can see on this...
[ATTACH] "Apolloni Sancto"... That's not classical Latin! AE 15 mm, Antioch, c. 310-313. Next up: the Tyche of Antioch with Orontes swimming at...
Most Athenian tetradrachms known today come from hoards, some of them enormous (in Egypt it is often 1000s of coins). In "Le monnayage d'argent...
[ATTACH] AR drachm of Philip III Arrhidaeus. Next up : a coin with graffito
This coin is not at all of Jerusalem, it is a coin of Caesarea Maritima, Sofaer Caesarea 52. Your coin could be the same one!
[ATTACH] Tetradrachm of Side, Pamphylia Next up : Athena
Are you sure it is? Since 622 there have been many images in Islamic art, including images of the Prophet. Presently the Sunni orthodoxy is that...
Athenian owls and Nemausus crocodiles are very common, yes. But coins with portraits of Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra are much rarer, let's...
Unless you can read the exergue or reverse legend, it is very difficult to attribute these c.20 mm bronze coins with a Tychaion reverse to a city...
I find these Ailiya fulus fascinating. First, the name of the city: ايليا فلستين , Ailiya Filastin... This is the Latin name Aelia Palaestinae, or...
No, in fact, being in France, I mostly read French or European comics. These two drawings were directly ordered from the artist himself, and he...
[ATTACH] Comic albums, comic books, graphic novels, and original drawings by my favourite authors.
[ATTACH] Revolt of the Heraclii, follis, AE 33 mm, 10.43 g, 6 h. Alexandria, 610 AD. Obv.: dm HЄRACLIO CONSuL II, bareheaded busts of Heraclius...
For a private personal collection I prefer by far eye-appealing specimens of common or scarce coins. In my view of things, rarities rather belong...
[ATTACH] Alexander II Zebinas. He was a Seleucid king at war against his rival and competitor Antiochus VIII, supported by Egypt. Zebinas had a...
[ATTACH] Seleucid Kingdom, Demetrius II Nikator 1st reign, AE 24 mm, 12.22 g. Uncertain mint in Syria, 146-145 BC. Obv.: laureate head of zeus...
Some day somebody will surely find a specimen cut in half... to make obvious the significant half of the coin :smuggrin:.
It's Price 3281 (Ake, 316/5 BC), but the attribution has changed since. It is now considered Tyre mint under Ptolemy I Soter as satrap. The date...
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