[ATTACH] I don't remember how much I paid for this one but, as an old miser, I'm pretty sure it wasn't much. I liked it because it was relatively...
it's a coin of Apameia (Syria) minted in 20/19 BC https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/4351
"(Gallienus) gave orders to make a statue of himself arrayed as the Sun and greater than the Colossus, but it was destroyed while still...
repatination makes genuine ancient coins look like tourist fakes
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The obv. legend is Constantinus jun(ior) nob(ilissimus) c(aesar) : "Constantine Jr Most Noble Caesar". Constantine Junior was a son of...
I wonder, if I entered again the Platt shop, if there would be inside some old timer who would recognize me. Back in the time their prices were...
When I was a student in Paris, in the typewriter era, I used to look for Roman coins at "bouquinistes" on the banks of the Seine. They usually...
[ATTACH] Galatia-Pontus, Amasea ; Caracalla, AD 205/6. AE 30 mm, 16.65 g, 6 h. Obv. : AY KAI M AYP ANTΩNINO[c] , laureate, draped and cuirassed...
It is Constantius II. Gallus, a mere Caesar, is not wearing a pearl diadem.
On the wall outside the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, is fixed a long series of black steel plates : 1.30 m high, 280 m long, on which are...
Veterans in my family... [ATTACH] My dad, 4th from the left, in July 1940, after the worst military disaster of the country's history. His...
I too already posted this as of Geta : [ATTACH] These "Di Patrii" ("ancestral gods") are Liber Pater and Hercules, the Roman version of the...
There are examples of this spelling for the number 18 : [ATTACH] Gravestone of Pompeii. "Aulus Buccius Victor, he lived 18 years".
Well... It could be, but it could also belong to the "diverse imitations" category. Pierre Bastien found that some dies used for overstruck coins...
It's funny to see how many of those completely worn out 1st and 2nd c. sestertii had a second life when overstruck by the Postumian "Atelier II"...
Please give dimensions, weight and provenance, thanks ! It would be easier to ID. It's probably a coin of Elagabalus minted at Marcianopolis...
[ATTACH] Postumus, AE 22 mm, 5.20 g, somewhere in Gaul 266-270. Obv. : illegible legend (mostly off-flan), radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of...
The countermarked as is an as of Augustus minted in 7 BC by the money magistrate M. Salvius Otho. This man was the grandfather of the emperor Otho...
nice and interesting popular issue. How can these imitations be labeled ? Barbarous? unofficial? It's so obvious that they denote a dire need of...
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