[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Two 1/16th shekels of Sidon. The type can be found in Persepolis doors in Iran (early 5th c. BC) : [ATTACH] and this theme...
This Nabataean coin of Aretas IV is a numismatic enigma. Nobody knows what can be the broom-like object on the reverse. The hypothesis of a...
[ATTACH] My favourite worn coin. When in hand, looks like a gem.
You said this list would contain usurpers, too. I suppose you could add Postumus, Marius, Victorinus, Domitian II, Tetricus I and II, Carausius,...
I have the same problem with an online bookshop based in Massachusetts: they refuse orders from foreign countries.
I suppose he was joking :happy:.
A friend of mine used to say : "There are probably no authentic coins, only well-made forgeries."
[ATTACH] Domitian, as. The emperor sacrificing in front of a temple for the Ludi Saeculares in 88 AD Next up : an agonistic table
Because it is not sharp at all, especially the reverse which is a poorly designed imitation of a Messana (in Sicily) reverse of the 5th c. BC,...
The style does not look Athenian too much, thus an imitation. There is a circular incuse countermark on Athena's cheek, they probably understood...
I have been working on a hoard that contained several kinds of owls : Athenian tets of the 5th c., Egyptian Buttrey types (B, M and...
These unmarked pseudo-Athenian coins can only be attributed if we know where they are found. The question is complex. The Ashkelon 1989 hoard (CH...
I think it's a fantasy cast fake, sorry.
Louis VI the Fat as seen by popular French cinema (Jean-Marie Poiré's "Les Visiteurs", 1993) [ATTACH] An anachronism festival. The king's hairdo...
[ATTACH] well... there is a tiny dolphin in Neptune's hand. Next up : Caligula
:jawdrop: You found all this on the same day?
But are there any depictions of Marnas on coins, in the first place? In the Hellenistic period there were sometimes coins with a bearded and...
The "sign of Marnas" is generally seen as the Aramaic letter mem, and understood as the initial of M(arnas). This letter was already visible on...
The shield is seen from profile: it is not a flat disc but a curved shield. BTW it's still Anthemius wanted. Or may we follow the 12 hrs rule?
Well... I don't think I ever posted this dirham. I apologize in advance if I did and forgot I did. Yazdagard I (399-420), Bishapur or court mint....
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