Thanks for the reply. These terracotta busts or statuettes are very interesting because they were cheap artefacts made in huge quantities, easily...
If you go to Venice (Italy, not Florida, I've been to both and enjoyed both) you will see in front of the Arsenal four marble statues of lions...
I had never seen before such thing as a Roman imperial terracotta mini-bust. Do you know any parallels, in museums or private collections?
Crusader or not, justice in America is still very indulgent on antiquities trafficking. A dealer (no name, I don't want to be banned), after...
[ATTACH] [CERES] AVGVSTA / SC on a dupondius of Claudius. Next : Claudius I sestertius
Your tetradrachm is an imitation, sure, mainly because of the ornament on the helmet's neck guard which is obviously unathenian. Of course nobody...
I don't think the person sitting on a stool on top of platform can be Antoninus Pius. The stool has straight legs, which means the person sitting...
Congratulations ! I cannot say which ones are my favourites. Probably Paulina, Divus Verus and especially the Triumvirate ! This is what I call a...
In France, in the 1990-2000s, there was an entire collection of college textbooks and manuals from a well-reputed publisher (Presses...
[ATTACH] I'm afraid it's nearly the same as @Ryro 's, but mine has only one tuna-fish. Gades (Cadix, Spain), late 3rd c. BC. AE 19 mm. Obv.: head...
From the released photographs, the coins are Roman sestertii of the 2nd and 3rd c., from Antoninus Pius to Gallienus. The shape of the gold ring...
[ATTACH] Carthage AE 27mm, 21.06 g. 200-146 BC. Obv.: head of Tanit left Rev.: horse pacing r., punic letter beneath. Next : punic script
It is a pity that nearly all of these coins surface on the international market with no whereabouts at all: we shall never know where they were...
Sub-Saharan Africa in Antiquity is not well-known... There is an exception, the kingdom of Axum in today's Ethiopia. This African kingdom traded...
[ATTACH] The coin matches the description: do you see the bust of Jesus on your coin, now?
[ATTACH] Follis of Constantine I, that I found when I was a kid in an old change purse that belonged to my great-grandfather, with small change...
In Rome, in the second half of the 1st century AD, they made oil lamps specially designed for the New Year. They represented a victory holding a...
The most miserable (for a change) jewel made with a coin : [ATTACH] The coin is a Trajan Decius of Caesarea Maritima (Israel). Rosenberger 111....
This is an incredible piece of Barbarian (Gothic?) jewellery that can easily be dated of the late 4th c. AD, the 380s, as coins are not later than...
[ATTACH] Augustus, denarius... NEXT : Axum !
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