[ATTACH] I enjoy Thanksgiving for the look back with gratitude at a year with all the usual highs and lows. In this forum we can be grateful for...
[ATTACH] This week marked the third year from my first post on CT and I keep returning for new information, access to experts, ancient coin humor...
My latest denarius completes a 2-rat set. [ATTACH] Jugurtha in chains, public domain image by M. S. Maélla, from La conjuracion de Catilina y la...
I am attempting to make some sense of these dirhems - some coins that I don't collect, but have accumulated. I am unsure about the attributions -...
[ATTACH] Image Source: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz by Thomé, Otto Wilhelm, 1903 If you keep asking, "What evidence is there...
Ancient coins offer no shortage of stories of political and military battles. The two coins that I feature today are from political opponents in...
Although countermarked Byzantine coins are not usually something I seek out, I couldn't resist this one. It was described in the auction listing...
[ATTACH] "Vedute antiche e moderne le più interessanti della città di Roma", Rome, 1820, published by V. Monaldini, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons...
"Good things come in small packages II" - Although at 0.49g this coin is about the same weight as the last coin that I posted it is NOT an obol...
"Good things come in small packages" - this is certainly the thought I have today with this 0.56 gram coin. Although unusual for Greek coins,...
My latest coin from Asia Minor, features a River God from Tisna with bull's horns and a cup on the reverse that suggests a link to neighboring...
[ATTACH] A Roman copy of a Greek bronze statue of Athena (possibly Itonia), Louvre Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Philip V was...
[ATTACH] Image source: Promptuarii iconum insigniorum, AD 1553 Last year in this post, Bracing for an Alexandrian Bidding War, I...
The coin that caught my attention today has an excellent portrait of Septimius Severus on the obverse and an eagle on the reverse. It is a good...
Cowrie shells appear as items of value and ceremony in the far western inland of China during the Neolithic era. Use became widespread during the...
[ATTACH] Heinrich Kiepert, Paphlagonia, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons A search of CT for "Pylaemenes" found nothing, so I tried a few more...
"On its summit, which is flat, stands the temple of Venus Erycina, which is indisputably the first in wealth and general magnificence of all the...
[ATTACH] Charles Meynier, 1798, Apollo & Urania, Cleveland Museum of Art, Creative Commons 1.0 License In AD 67, Nero went on a grand tour of...
There have been more than 50 threads on CT with "12 Caesars" in the title. NGC has an all gold set displayed. It is a question that comes up...
[ATTACH] Rosetta Stone © Hans Hillewaert used under CC BY-SA 4.0 I have quite a few Roman provincial Egyptian coins, but have not ventured much...
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