It was a multi-part epic. The links are here: Part 1 - Foreword Part 2 - Venice Part 3 - Rome Part 4 - Ephesus Part 5 - Naples and Pompeii I...
Without pictures of your coin, I can't be sure. It's possible that your coin is a fourrée, which is a kind of ancient counterfeit in which a...
Colonia Agrippina (Cologne) continued to mint good-metal silver coins even after the content and standards of the Rome mint took a nose dive. I've...
I'm not suggesting the empire went into decline immediately after this period -- simply that Mithradates II conquered new territory, and under his...
That's a drachm of Mithridates II (123 - 88 BC) struck at the Ecbatana mint late in his reign, at the height of the Parthian Empire. The seated...
As far as the Romans go, Nero and Caligula hog all the bad press. But I would give a shout-out to the likes of Commodus and Caracalla. Caracalla...
It's Valens. Emperor and captive reverse. The complete obverse legend is DNVALEN-SPFAVG (Dominus Noster Valens Pius Felix Augustus). The reverse...
I never considered a personification of a city or nation on a coin to be pagan. The practice may have started with pagan cultures, but was...
Of particular note is that this Apis Bull coin was the final pagan coin of the Roman Empire. From this point on it was all Christian iconography,...
To give you some additional information about the writing on your coin... IMP SEV ALEXANDER AVG Imperator Severus Alexander Augustus P M TR...
I should have specified "west" as related to the rest of the Parthian Empire.
Yes, the tetradrachms were generally all minted at the Seleucia on the Tigris mint for use in the Mesopotamia region. The drachms (almost all of...
Two more ancient cultures that dated their coins: The Bosporan Kingdom put years on their reverses, along with the current Roman Emperor. The...
A) Roman Imperial coins (particularly of the second and third centuries) often list the number of years emperors held certain offices, which ends...
The last time a question like this came up here, it was a Constantinian bronze discovered in a used car. Now, apparently, we have rich guys...
Here are a couple of examples of the type you're talking about. One Aelia Flaccilla, the other Aelia Eudoxia. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The reverse is...
If you get the new edition of The Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coinage (ERIC II), you'll have a very detailed checklist of Roman Imperial and...
You're about 30 years off the mark. It's a common bronze coin of the emperor Valens who was the Eastern Augustus from 364-378. Victory is on the...
#3 is a republican denarius of Mn. Aemilius Lepidus from 114-115 BC. Laureate and diademed bust of Roma right/ROMA & XVI value monogram...
It's my understanding that the meaning of the S F on these coins is purely a matter of conjecture. No one knows for sure, but the suggested...
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