Of course yes. These legionary coins have been hoarded along with other denarii. They were accepted everywhere.
The comments in the first paragraph on anti-Western prejudices are off-topic and deprive this little text of all credibility. What is important in...
[ATTACH] Syria, Leucas on the Chrysorrhoas (AKA Balanea), Septimius Severus, AE 20 mm, 6.40 g Obv.: illegible legend (?), laureate head of...
I am impressed by @Bing's collection... It's like the whole Mark Anthony's army was parading before our very eyes. But well... Call me a killjoy,...
I love this sestertius, not only for its nice patina or its impressive portrait of Septimius Severus. I love it for its reverse : it's not only...
[ATTACH] That's not a coin. It's the pumpkin I carved two days ago for Halloween.
Very interesting tetradrachm of Mazakes, satrap of Mesopotamia (331-323/2). You can still read MZ[D]K (in Aramaean) on the reverse.
[ATTACH] Byzantine follis or Arab-Byzantine fals... There is a countrermark on the reverse. I know nothing about that...
This coin is not particularly rare, it is not in good condition, it's just a small bronze coin almost 1900 years old... [ATTACH] Gaza, Hadrian...
whow.
[ATTACH] Arados (Rwad, Syria) Obv. : head of Zeus right Rev. : galley ram, ShNT 115 (in Phoenician script : Year 115) = 145/144 BC. Here is...
The crocodile on reverse was one of the most famous ancient Roman coin-types, as early as the 16th c. By order of the king François I (1515-1547)...
North Africa, he said... [ATTACH] Geta as Caesar, AE as, Rome mint Obv.: P SEPT GETA CAES PONT, draped bust right Rev.: DI PATRII, Liber Pater...
Antoninus Pius, effective? Nothing happened under Antoninus Pius. He had a new wall built in Britain north of Hadrian's wall, but it was not a...
Very nice collection of African masks from Gabon, Congo, etc.! Of course they are surely not old, they seem made for collectors but by able...
[ATTACH] On this forum, I sometimes found the expression “good emperors” or “five good emperors”. According to Wikipedia, this notion was...
[ATTACH] M. Porcius Cato, AR quinarius, minted 47-46 BC in Africa. Obv: M CATO PRO PR, Ivy-wreathed head of Liber r. Rev: Victory seated r.,...
I don't think the allegory of Libertas holding the liberty cap and the vindicta has any relation with captives. It's a purely political notion,...
[ATTACH] Too bad this nice specimen (36 mm, 18.74 g) has got bronze disease !
[ATTACH] Imitation of an AE antoninianus of Tetricus. Obv.: MP C TITRICVS [...] (sic) , radiate and cuirassed bust right Rev.: FIDE MILITVM...
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