please, what do you mean precisely ?
The emperor Titus' personal propaganda was mostly based upon his victory against the Jews. Many coins celebrating this achievement were minted in...
So did Xenophon. Do what he did, enlist in the PMC Ten Thousand hired by some Achaemenid Iznogoud wanting to be Great King instead of the Great King.
Plautilla [ATTACH] She was the daughter of Caius Fulvius Plautianus, praetorian prefect and close friend of the emperor Septimius Severus. In 202...
This quarter-follis was inspired by a quadrans of Nero [ATTACH] (not my coin)
Nice follis ! I have one too, but worn and without a patina [ATTACH] 44 mm, thickness 2 mm, 21.60 g.
The two profiles are not so different, I think they are the same. And for jugate profiles, there is never a profile above the other one, they are...
The Nabataean Kingdom was not just Petra. Petra was its capital, its main religious centre and commercial hub since the late 4th c. BC, Nabataeans...
The pics are way too small to tell, smoothing possible.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] These coins of the « Gallic Empire » of the 260s were a shock for me when I was a child. I don’t know why...
[ATTACH] Malichus I, 60-30 BC. Æ 19 mm. Petra mint. Dated regnal year 27 (34/33 BC). Obv.: Diademed head right Rev.: Eagle standing left, date...
Why "but"? The Nabataean kingdom extended to Syrian territory. The city of Bostra, in South Syria, used to be the Nabataean northern capital. In...
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AD or CE ? A(nno) D(omini), "Year of the Lord" could be seen too Christian for a globalized world. C(ommon) E(ra) sounds more secular, but some...
[ATTACH] This Nerva from Antioch... As found. [ATTACH] and this sestertius. A birthday present.
[ATTACH] Caius Cassius, moneyer in 126 BC. Denarius, Rome, AR 18 mm, 3.78 g Obv.: Helmeted head of Roma right, in left field X with transverse...
Jean de La Bruyère was a French moralist of the late 17th century. In 1688 he translated in French the Characters of Theophrastes, an ancient...
I hope that chariot had good brakes
Did they clean the coins already? Is this picture an actual photo of this hoard? It's a mix of LRB of different sizes (w/o silvering) and mid-3rd...
The triumphator in the quadriga is no other than L. Cornelius Sylla. Of course, due to the small size of the coin, his features could not be...
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