I remember when I was visiting South Syria with my GF. We visited Bosra and slept at the youth hostel built on top of a tower of the Roman theatre...
In the 1980s I read a book about Libya by a named Pierre Rossi, "La verte Libye de Kadhafi". Of course it is mere Kadhafi propaganda (but it was...
I am still not at all convinced this coin shows an allegory of Liberty. And it would be too long if we discussed the exact meaning of Eleutheria...
In fact this coin (which is unique) is no longer attributed to Bostra. It is a coin of Botrys in Phoenicia, and there are no camels : the rev....
Is this goddess seated on a rock and tramping on a tuna-fish a personification of Liberty, or of a city called Eleutheria or Eleutherion? In the...
Very interesting, I am presently working on Bostra coinage. I am convinced that the civic coinage of this city only started under Antoninus Pius....
It seems that since ancient times there is a rule about who may be portrayed on coins: only gods or kings (whose authority must be considered of...
Yes, there is even worse ! My favourite blunder are antoniniani of young Gordian III, minted in Antioch in 238/9, on which they confused Libertas...
[ATTACH] Denarius minted in Rome in 126 BC by the money magistrate Caius Cassius: is it the oldest known allegory of Liberty? C. Cassius,...
Excellent write-up ! Don't you think the Gloria Exercitus imitations imitate the one-standard version, rather than the two-standards?
[ATTACH] Sassanid dirham : Peroz (459-484), Goyman (Iran) mint. NEXT : an Umayyad dirham
Of course there is no material evidence for these hypotheses. The estates granted to Barbarian warlords were just a source of income, it does not...
I have seen this hacksilber hoard in an article, but cannot remember which one!
[ATTACH] Alexander III "the Great", tetradrachm (posthumous), Sardis 319-315 BC (Price 2664). NEXT : non-Alexander Herakles obverse.
I agree with you, these coins must have been found together, and the older and bigger Soli Invicto Comiti follis must have circulated together...
[ATTACH] This one was a difficult one! After I concluded that the rev. legend could not be other than SALVS AVG, I had to investigate to find...
There are several towns, villages or just places in the northern half of France called Sermaize, Sermaizes or Sermizelles. These place-names come...
These Sri Lanka imitations are very interesting. The first two imitate Roman coins of the 4th c. (Fel. Temp. Reparatio falling horseman and Gloria...
When I was a kid, my father (who never was a coin-collector) had in a drawer not a loaded gun but an old brown envelope with small ancient coins...
Philistines? You could not say it better. Test-cutting Attic tetradrachms was a current practice in 4th c. BC Philistian cities like Gaza,...
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