In the 16th-19th centuries ancient statues and vases were restored this way. When you look at famous Greek statues in the Louvre or the Vatican...
There was never a Palmyrene Empire. Odaenathus (Zenobia's husband and Vaballathus' father) never claimed to be an emperor. He had the titles of...
In the 16th - 19th c. Europe, most of the Roman coins found as stray finds or in hoards had little or no value. But they could be shipped to...
The legends are incredibly blundered.
It resembles very much Price P47, a drachm of Philip III Arrhidaeus, 323-319 BC, minted in Colophon, Ionia.
[ATTACH] What is the curious belt Sol seems to be wearing on antoniniani of Postumus and Victorinus ?
could be - nice as.
another one with Concordia seated left [ATTACH]
outstanding !
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the letter [ATTACH] mem below the head of horse is the initial of [ATTACH] MHNT, which means 'the camp". This coin was minted for the soldiers' pay.
It's Arab, but not Islamic.
it is an hemidrachm (half-drachma) of Parion, 4th c. BC, an ancient Greek city that is now the Turkish village of Kemer on the South coast of the...
[ATTACH] The Pannoniae are the two provinces of Pannonia : Pannonia Superior (capital Canuntum, today near Petronell, Austria) and Pannonia...
Nice sestertius : AE 66 mm, 176.38 g. Well... that's way too large and too heavy , it's probably a modern fake ;) ... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The...
it's CONSTANTIAE AVGVSTI. Why is Constantia sitting just on the edge of her curule chair?
[ATTACH] This one is just an as, reverse DI PATRII, Liber Pater and Hercules.
Very curious... Of course the pictures of the whole lot are not sharp, but it seems to me - is it just me ? - that there are at least two groups...
In France in the early 1970s you could collect reproductions of ancient coins in BP gas stations. 1 refill = 1 ancient coin in a small paper bag....
[ATTACH] Vitellius (69), Rome, AR denarius Obv.: A VITELLIVS GERM IMP AVG TR P, laureate head right Rev.: XV VIR SACR FAC, tripod topped by...
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