I don't think the Greek C is a Roman (Latin) letter. It is a lunar sigma, the letter written Σ in Hellenistic times and C in the late Roman and...
[ATTACH] Elymais - Kamnaskires-Orodes III (late 2nd c. AD) - AE drachm NEXT : Parthian Empire
How convenient. There are dealers and auction houses who propose extremely rare coins, never seen before in any sale or collection, without any...
Collecting Greek Imperials may help correctly pronounce Latin like in Ancient times because the Latin names have been phonetically adapted in...
Half a century ago the Western dealers from London or the USA would have cooperated with scholars. For example when the "1973 Iraq (or Near...
This is one of the most fascinating coins I ever know... They have another specimen from the same dies in the Israel Museum at Jerusalem, but not...
Very nice ! is the first one a kind of crocodile? I sometimes think of the bizarre being, much evolved from bats or octopuses in one or two...
In fact Egypt had invented coins centuries before anybody else, but had later forgotten this. There is this small silver ingot, 41.55 g, struck...
oops !!! mistyping ! I meant 400 BC (I edited and corrected the original post), after Athens had been taken by Spartans in 404 and the Laurion...
Because 1) the Athenians had on their territory silver mines in mount Laurion, just next to Cape Sounio. 2) they could mint every year huge...
[ATTACH] I do love this game ! :woot: NEXT : Aelius
Nice coins, yes. My favourite is your Justinian follis. Jealous.
[ATTACH] First I saw this Faustina posthumous sestertius as a worn coin. Now I admire the elegance of Pietas on the reverse. It could make a book...
I did not even know such a coin existed !
Do you actually fear it could happen?!! You could have problems of that sort only if you were found in an airport carrying ancient coins out of a...
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[ATTACH] Caius Cassius, money triumvir in 126 BC. In this year Caius Gracchus was quaestor and beginning his political career, he would be...
I agree with you, not an easy task at all!
I don't believe it too ;), and these assassinations of innocents are mentioned by no other source. For me it is just typical medieval Christian...
These small coins (a smaller denomination than the crossed cornucopiae) must have bee minted in enormous, industrial quantities, and probably...
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