[ATTACH] Vologases III, 107-145 AD, dirham minted in Ecbatana (Hamadan, Iran). Probably the commonest of all Parthian drachmae. NEXT : Ardashir...
A mere shard I found on the ground when hiking in Greece, in Eretria. Attic red figures pottery, 5th c. BC. The fragment represents an ephebe...
Carthage, AR 5 shekels or decadrachm (not my coin ;-) ): [ATTACH] French 2nd and 3rd Republic, AR 5 francs (not my coin also ;-) ) [ATTACH]
The Middle Ages did nothing new. In 437 BC in Athens, Cleon (a conservative politician opponent to Pericles) passed a law prohibiting defamation...
Honestly speaking, I don't know what kind of globe, celestial or terrestrial, it is. It can be celestial (Providentia is generally depicted with...
If you look carefully, it's a celestial sphere much like the one on the Brazilian flag.
Yes, this one is puzzling. Maybe it's one for which the celator confused or mixed the terrestrial and the celestial globe. Roman celators or...
Are you sure? I would say there is only one belt, and that the sphere is dotted with stars above and under this belt. It could well be celestial...
Celestial spheres are different, they have only one belt (the zodiacal belt). On the denarius of Domitia, we see that the stars are outside the...
(None of the following coins are mine!) The most fascinating of all ancient coins, for me, are these aurei and denarii of Domitian or Domitia...
This one is funny Inspired by a worn tetradrachm of Zenobia, like this one: [ATTACH] the Syrian mint printed in the 1980s SYL 100 banknotes with...
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[ATTACH] Nero Claudius Drusus, father of the emperor Claudius I. Sestertius. Obv.: Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus Imp(erator), head left. Rev.:...
[ATTACH] Seleucid Kingdom, Antiochos IV (175-160 BC). AE 33 mm, 39.09 g. Antioch (?), 169-168 BC Obv.: Head of Zeus-Ammon right, wearing tainia...
[ATTACH] Augustus, denarius...
L. Marcius Censorinus, money triumvir in 82 BC. The reverse represents the satyr Marsyas raising right hand and holding wine-skin over his left...
[ATTACH] As of moneyer Q. Marcius Libo, 148 BC [ATTACH] Nero, as with the Temple of Janus
You have my sympathy for this painful loss. Toutes mes condoléances... Two Claudii : [ATTACH] Claudius I, dupondius of Lyons mint, rev. Ceres...
Interesting question : is it the emperor who is seated on the stool? On this sestertius of Nero, one can see that the emperor is just overseeing...
I am not a specialist of Roman finger rings, and I don't have any book with the typology by Henig. Do you have one? I just know a gold ring with...
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