The obv. looks like a king of Characene (South-East Iraq, 1st c. AD), but I don't know if they issued minimi like your small coin.
A strange clay statuette from Chad Roughly 25 years ago I was in Chad for some business with a local university. One day, a group of professors...
Probably the monogram on the neck-guard of your coin should be read ayin - daleth. There are many other Qatabanian monograms on Athena's helmet...
I did not know Jews were not allowed, or could not become officers, in the Prussian army in the 1810s. Probably your ancestor Gerson Abel served...
He said "any aes grave". I already posted this one but I'll post it again because what counts here is just following the coin theme : [ATTACH]...
Very rare and interesting. Is this siliqua struck or cast?
You are right, family history is a real treasure. My mom wrote her memories about WW2 she lived through as a child and a teenager: the terrible...
I beg to differ. Louis Capet, AKA Louis XVI, was not "murdered". He was tried for high treason, found guilty and sentenced to death, publicly...
12 hours... [ATTACH] Carthage, AE 18 mm. Obv.: head of Tanit left - Rev.: Head of horse right. c. 300-264 BC. Next : Carthage again
I was lucky enough to do my military service in time of peace. My father and two grandfathers served in time of war but survived. My dad was...
Maybe the Zanjid atabegs of Mosul or Sinjar did even better. In the 12th and 13th c. AD they minted bronze dirhams with obverse types copied from...
[ATTACH] This Constantine coin, for example. I found it in an old wallet that belonged to my great-grandfather (who never collected coins). This...
[ATTACH] Hadrian, large semis (maybe this is more a cithar than a lyre?) Next : trumpet
Tandis que des médailles D'imperators Font briller à sa taille Le bronze et l'or ... (quote from a famous old French song of the 1960s, inspired...
[ATTACH] Probus, antoninianus of Antioch. Next :Aurelian
I am sure many historians would beg to differ regarding Roman emperors called "bigots". This vocabulary is not History's language, it belongs to...
[ATTACH]This is an extremely debased Moneta Aug. antoninianus, 2.90 g, probably minted in the last year of his reign: it looks like pure bronze....
Because you posted this video, I'll post this one too. Did I say before I was a great fan of animes and cartoons? [MEDIA]
[ATTACH] 44 mm, 21.60 g.
[ATTACH] Vitellius, denarius. This raven is not perched upon a bust of Pallas, but on the legs of a tripod.
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