[ATTACH] Louis XVI, 30 sols, AR 30 mm, 9.79 g. 1791, A = Paris. Gadoury 39. Another coin I found in an old box full of late 19th and early 20th...
This is of course very subjective. I always considered the coinage of the "Gallic emperors" under-appreciated from an artistic point of view....
When I was a kid, my grandaunt showed me a box in which there were several large old silver coins. It belonged to my great-great-grandparents but...
I cannot identify precisely this obol : [ATTACH] Alexander III, AR obol, AR 9 mm, 0.67 g. Obv.: head of Herakles right wearing lion-skin Rev.:...
[ATTACH] Philip II, sestertius Next: a coin whose find-spot is known
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Not worldwide. Winnie the Pooh is banned in China, and people who dare mention him face time in jail, since somebody posted this on a Chinese...
in French, maybe... But in Corsican? Does a Corsican ever confess anything? :muted:
This is a classic mistake dating back to late Antiquity. For the Romans, the symbol of Arabia was the camel (generally the one-humped dromedary,...
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The Cross became a Christian symbol only when saint Helena, mother of Constantine, made excavations in Jerusalem and found the True Cross, and...
[ATTACH] Caracalla and Julia Domna, Marcianopolis. Next : a temple
[ATTACH] My favourite Commodus coin: a sestertius with Commodus delivering a speech to the Praetorian Guard. Commodus, AE sestertius, Rome 186...
[ATTACH] Gades (Cadix, Spain) - AE 19 mm (late IIIrd C. BC) Head of young Melqart-Heracles left, wearing lion's skin Punic legend : MP'L / HGDR ,...
Not minted in North Africa, but a North African related theme: when the emperor(s) pardoned the tax debts of Carthage [ATTACH] Caracalla, AR...
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[ATTACH] Gordian III and Tranquillina, Singara (Mesopotamia). Next : two busts looking at each other
Funny thread, indeed... Associate a coin with a tune... Why not? Here is my contribution: [ATTACH] Iran, Sassanian Empire, Yazdagard I...
One funny thing. In the 2000s my parents went visiting Uzbekistan and they brought me back an old coin : [ATTACH] They thought, and at first...
I suppose this letter was not carried by a lone Mongolian ambassador who disembarked one morning in Paris and tried to negotiate in Mongolian his...
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