After all the wonderful top threads I think it is time I decided to make a top 10 as well. In regards to coin collecting, it was quite successful...
A piece of Hellenic history often forgotten is the vast Indo-Greek Kingdom. I recently started to read about it and obtained my first coin some...
Thasos, an island at the south of Thrace. It had rich gold mines and attracted the Phoenicians to its shores at a very early date. Later on it was...
A new addition to my Greek island collection: A bronze coin from Mytilene on Lesbos island. However, this is not just a coin, but an interesting...
The Seleukid Empire was in turmoil, Antiochos VIII his uncle Antiochos VII died fighting the Parthians. His father Demetrios II Nikator, who was...
Well, I am not talking here per se about coins, but seals, more specifically: Byzantine seals. I very rarely see them placed here on the forum,...
I have came in contact with @robinjojo regarding Athenian owls, he is a knowledgeable collector regarding these emissions and I have become very...
I noticed there are coming more and more Lysimachos coins with these dies and I decided to make a post about it for people here to be aware of...
I am talking here about Metapontion! The city is located in the region of Lucania in Magna Graecia and is well know as all of it's coins contain...
Skepsis was a town in Troas, Asia Minor. It was found on the upper waters of the Aisepos River or north-east of Kebren, on the Scamander river. It...
[ATTACH] Marble bust of Philetaerus. Roman copy from 1st century AD of the Greek original When I think of the Hellenic period, compared to the...
I think this is a long debate and has most likely been discussed many times with different opinions and facts. Some say the Herakles on the...
Silenos was the companion and tutor of Dionysos, the well-known god of wine. He was a constant and big consumer of wine, and was therefore usually...
Manuel I Komnenos, the last Byzantine ruler to dominate the politics in the Mediterranean world, eager to restore his empire to its past glories...
As maybe some of you know one of my focusses is to collect coins from the Greek islands. What interest me about them is that these islands often...
Philip I Philadelphos was a son of Antiochos VIII Epiphanes and got himself turmoiled in a brother vs brother civil war. In his early life his...
In the late Hellenic period the island of Thasos, south of Thrace, started to produce tetradrachms in the name of the Thasians, claiming that...
The island of Kos which looks upon the map like a huge dolphin about to swim into the Ceramic Gulf between the promontories of Myndos and Knidos,...
I have owned this coin for almost 1.5-2 years now, and I always labeled it as the usual "Barbarian imitation" of a drachm from Demetrios I Soter,...
The city of Kolophon was founded in Ionia by Ionian settlers in the 9th or the 8th century BC, on a very fertile plain watered by numerous streams...
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