Another really ugly coin : This as of Nero, reverse Victory flying left, holding shield with inscription SPQR [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, Caracalla with Julia Domna 198-217 AD. AE Pentassarion, Quintillianus legatus consularis, 215 AD. Obv.:...
Fourrée, corroded and holed : the worst "tribute penny" I know. Why is it in my hands? I don't remember at all when and from where I got it, maybe...
[ATTACH] AE 19 mm, 3.05 g This is what I think I could decipher, but I am not sure at all... : Obv.: head of veiled and turreted Tyche to right...
Dig a hole in your garden and bury them...
[ATTACH] Shapur I (241-272) [ATTACH] Yazdagard I (399-420) [ATTACH] Khosrow I (531-579)
After the Roman annexation of the kingdom in 106, these selas (at least those of Rabbel II) were worth 1 Roman denarius in Arabia. Many were...
[ATTACH] Jewish prutah. Obv. : שנת שתים, "year two" (= 67/8 CE), amphora Rev.: חרות ציון, "the freedom of Zion", vine leaf [ATTACH] Titus,...
Severus Alexander and Maximinus Thrax did not mint antoniniani.
The Seleucid Kingdom is a most interesting topic in the general history of the Middle East. It was formally founded in 312 BCE, extended from...
It must be a follis or pseudo-argenteus of Licinius I (308-324 CE). The style looks like the Arelate mint (Arles, France). Here is one specimen in...
There is something funny with these Philip I bronze coins : they are extremely common, and some of them have mirror-reverses : the head of Tyche...
The same coin, but Elagabalus : [ATTACH]
From the 5th to the 10th century, this kind of monograms were very popular in all Europe, from the Byzantine Empire to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms....
STOP !!! I found it ! Yes, I was missing some obvious point : it's not Artemis but Dionysos ... It's Alexander II Zabinas, AE denomination B....
[ATTACH] AE 19 mm, 5.61 g, 12 h. Obv.: head of a young diademed king to right The standing deity on rev. holds what is obviously a sceptre...
$ 100 is way too much for most of these coins.
Coin of Neapolis (Today Nablus, in the Palestinian West Bank), minted under Philip the Arab (244-249). The photo of the obverse is too blurred for...
Nice late Roman aureus !
Some Maximini... [ATTACH] A Maximinus Caesar, from Alexandria [ATTACH] A Maximinus Augustus, from Antioch [ATTACH] and a Genio Antiocheni...
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