My last acquisition I'd like to share here : a Ptolemaic AE30. [ATTACH] Ptolemy VI Philometor (180-145 BC), Alexandria, Faucher-Lorber series...
Two coins of young and older Julian. I like the off-centred little AE3, for its nice portrait. [ATTACH] Julian as Caesar, AE3, Alexandria,...
Four years ago, on 14.01.2020, a very strange coin was auctioned in New York by CNG: an aureus of Aurelian and Vabalathus. [ATTACH] AV 17 mm,...
Knowing that I like ancient coins, my colleagues (good friends indeed, i was moved) just offered me a scarce Gaulish coin, a nice one. It's a coin...
Many cities in the oriental provinces of the Roman Empire worshipped their own city-goddess called in Greek the Tyche, the Fortune or Destiny of...
Seleucid bronze coins are underrated collectibles. In the 3rd and 2nd c. BC the Seleucid kings minted not only silver tetradrachms - which are...
[ATTACH] Constantine V Copronymus, with Leo IV and Leo III, Æ follis. Syracuse, AD 751-775. Obv.: Half-length facing figures of Constantine V...
[ATTACH] In 1958, in Paris, a collector met with Jean Lafaurie, a numismatic scholar. He wanted to show him a hoard of 41 Roman gold coins (35...
[ATTACH] Syria, Leucas on the Chrysorrhoas (AKA Balanea), Septimius Severus, AE 20 mm, 6.40 g Obv.: illegible legend (?), laureate head of...
This coin is not particularly rare, it is not in good condition, it's just a small bronze coin almost 1900 years old... [ATTACH] Gaza, Hadrian...
[ATTACH] On this forum, I sometimes found the expression “good emperors” or “five good emperors”. According to Wikipedia, this notion was...
The emperor currently called "Elagabalus" is often considered one of the worst emperors Rome ever had, who allegedly devoted his reign to...
[ATTACH] Nero Drusus, sestertius, Rome AD 50-54. AE 36 mm, 27.15 g. I liked this coin because I didn't have any sestertius earlier than the...
This is a very worn coin : [ATTACH] Pisidia, Isinda (probably the modern village of Kişla, west of Antalya in Turkey), time of king Amyntas...
After people passed away, their relatives and heirs often have the sad duty to empty their houses, sometimes share between them some family...
[ATTACH] CILICIA, Aegeae. Valerian I. 253-260 AD. Æ 27mm. Obv.: AV KAI ΠOV ΛIKI OVAΛEPIANOC CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right,...
This summer I've been hiking along Hadrian's Wall in North England, from Wallsend (East of Newcastle) to Bowness-on-Solway (that's West of...
When planning a vacation in the wild, you sometimes find a friendly neighbour willing to feed the cat and water indoor plants while you're not at...
I already said on this forum that when I was a rogue youngster, I visited Greece and was hiking on the hill overlooking Eretria. And on the path,...
Last Sunday I was visting a museum and I saw this picture : [ATTACH] The Vocation of Saint Matthew, by Hendrick Ter Brugghen, c. 1620. He was a...
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