Rhinos... On Roman coins there is only one rhino-type yes, showing the African rhinoceros displayed in the Colosseum during lavish games organized...
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Features are not sharp enough, especially the praetorians, and the patina is typically artificial... this coin looks like a cast fake.
Historically this photorealistic bust is questionable, to say the least... It is inspired by a bust of "Nero" in a Roman museum, but this bust is...
Are camels so rare in ancient coinage? The oldest ones are on rare Arabo-Philistine silver obols of the Persian period (4th c. BC) showing a...
[ATTACH] Nero's neckbeard [ATTACH]Gallienus' neckbeard
[ATTACH] Arados, AE 14 mm, 2nd c. BC, reverse: ram of galley - on the right: ram of Roman or Punic galley sunk at the Battle of the Aegates...
[ATTACH] Gallienus, BI tetradrachm of Alexandria. Next : Valerian
[ATTACH] Volusian, antoninianus with Virtus. The temple of Honos and Virtus was dedicated by Marcellus after the 2nd Punic War, at the Porta...
This reminds me when in garage sales I was hunting old solid silver tea spoons (or bigger forks, spoons, etc.). Now it's over, these items have...
House of York angel? To make his winter of discontent glorious summer?
This must be a page of a famous fake, a bronze codex allegedly from Jordan. The inscriptions mean nothing. On other pages they were copied from...
May your wife get well soon! What is happening in hospitals is terrible... May this be a warning to all of us, and encourage us to accept Covid...
This antoninianus is from the Antioch mint, and it happens sometimes that legends are a little blundered, especially Latin legends engraved by...
There is the gradual transformation of the types of the Macedonian Philip II tetradachm by Danubian Celts, then by Gauls... In the end, one could...
[ATTACH] A Billon or Bronze tetradrachm like yours. Elymais, probably 2nd c AD. The obv. type is a portrait of a king Kamnaskires of the 1st c....
[ATTACH] Tetricus II, antoninianus, Cologne or Southern Gaul. ev.: PIETAS AVGVSTOR Next : Wahballath
The IIIrd Republic erased what the Genius was writing, and replaced on the fasces the Liberty Cap by the Hand of Justice, belonging to the French...
I read this one (in a French translation) : [ATTACH] It is the real story of how an Italian 15th c. humanist discovered buried in some Alpine...
Interesting indeed! but I don't think this obol is from the Babylon mint. With a B in left field, it is Price 3408, attributed to Berytus (Beirut,...
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