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I am considering a $100 purchase of a drachma of Apollonia Pontica and have read on the net that there are a large number of fakes of this coin,...
Get an Athenian "Owl" with the sliver of moon, display the two side by side, and make Herodotus happy.
Yes, he died in December of 1799. Whatever else it is, it is not a funeral piece issued at the time of his death in 1799, unless the date of 1797...
What do the numbers stand for?
I think most of us know that Byzantine silver was, for most of their thousand year history, uncommon. As in the case of this coin at this time it...
Are these coins actually gold? Of what purity? The weight seems pretty light for a solidus.
I recall visiting Britain some years back and especially liked Verulamium (Saint Albans), an important Roman site. When there, I visited a near by...
My experience of grad school for history teachers was that it focused on teaching methodology to the extent that there was little time (or...
As a retired history teacher I can tell you that, indeed, my teaching colleagues, including those who had majored in history, knew virtually...
Yes, I, too, wondered about that. Already as an avid coin collector I expected resistance, even shock, at the obviously reckless decision to...
Yes, I always thought the early Anglo Saxon sceats resembled the clipped silique in both appearance and weight.
I wonder what the average Roman in the streets or in the marketplace thought about "silvered" coinage.
These late siliquae are commonly found clipped. They seem to have survived the barbarian onslaught and in the absence of anybody else's regular...
I have always found Julian (the Apostate) a fascinating character but had no idea he had ever written anything extensive on his predecessors....
For a while Spain did control southern Italy (Kingdom of the Two Sicilies) including both Naples and Syracuse on the island itself
Anybody know what the proportions of silver to copper these tets were made of and for how much would they traffic in the market place vis a vis...
I like the very clear and prominent Chi-Rho labarum. No possible confusion with an IMP JVLIANUS piece
Yes, I too was struck by the coin's inscription of Rome with the use of the "eta" rather than the "alpha". I know that in modern Greek, at least...
First I have no photo as the coin is not mine as I did not buy it. At a local flea market I discovered a merchant selling, among other items,...
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