[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Thanks for all that information. I purchased the book this morning. I am not as well versed on these Cappadocian coins as I...
What was the time period for a silver content of ca. 47%? In Roman denarius terms that would be the Severan Dynasty. Were the Caesarean coins of...
You are reminding me that there is a lot about Xenophon that I do not know. I am not certain though, that Xenophon would have seen a tyrant, in...
Richard the lion Heart of England and France may have died from the discovery of a buried hoard of Roman coins found on the fief of one of his...
There used to be a TV program called, "The Meeting of the Minds" where actors from various periods would come together as the reincarnations of...
I would not do a thing with it. It does look old and well used, but it's an ancient coin. It's not supposed to look like somebody just cracked a...
I can't think of any other way to cope with problems better than going through my coin collection.
Question, please. I started collecting decades ago and over the years I have picked up a few fake ancients, usually at shows and did not find out...
Oh, yes. At school we were given a New testament with one side of the text the Latin Vulgate, the other in Koine Greek. I still have it. Reading...
Thanks, Nathan B. I appreciate those additional pieces of information. I realized that I already written too much on a man who requires much more...
I'll not argue that point but Constantine and Constantius sure did not allow any Christian scruples to interfere with killing off members of the...
I would say that the word for Octavian Augustus was not that he was 'immora'l but that he had no morals, hence 'amoral' being operating word.
Thanks for that information
Thanks and while you are at it, do you know what has been punched into that side of the coin? Is it supposed to be an image of something?
For those readers familiar with Plutarch you may know that in his Parallel Lives the author compared Julius Caesar with Alexander the Great, an...
Gregorian chant. That's close enough to ancient for government work.
Makes me want to re-up.
Well, I always wanted to have students like you. Good students make for good teachers.
Thanks. I am always looking for books just like this. New discoveries and different interpretations.
About ten days ago I put up an image of a double denarius in another thread and viewers pointed out that the coin which I thought to be one of...
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