Humans have been making images of cattle for many millennia - this painting from Lascaux caves depicts aurochs (wild ancestors of domesticated...
[ATTACH] Gate to the agora (assembly place) of ancient Kibyra I think it is only fair to offer caution that this post wanders a bit far from the...
Money comes in all shapes and sizes, and these coins are not the usual 3-4 grams of silver in the form of a Roman denarius, nor a Roman AE, or a...
[ATTACH] A fresco found in Pompeii on 20-Feb-1851 in the "House of the Prince of Montenegro" in the oecus on west side of atrium, adjoining the...
Browsing the Schaeffer die notebooks, has brought a bit unexpected provenance recently. The first coin, a denarius that you don't see every day...
[ATTACH]With this post, I return to the Roman Republic, and a coin from Lucius Cornelius Sulla. This denarius is from Sulla's dictatorship, 82 BC...
[ATTACH]It has been too long since the last thread with "Parthia" or "Parthian" in the title (> a month in my attempts to search). So I will post...
CT members are likely well aware of a series of coins for Probus with a hidden message. I first learned of this series from Doug Smith's page,...
Some of the most used reference books for ancient coins are not new. This was highlighted in a recent thread on CT by @dougsmit for Severans in...
[ATTACH] Cleopatra VII, Altes Museum, Antikensammlung Berlin, Public Domain image via Wikipedia The mailman brought an interesting tetradrachm...
I've mentioned a few times in posts this year, that my collecting took a side-trip to Asia Minor or the Anatolian peninsula. Anatolia a...
[ATTACH]While it is possible that one more coin might show up this year, it seems unlikely that I will displace any of the coins listed below, so...
[ATTACH]I thought about calling this post "How worn will you go? the sequel" after a recent post by @David Atherton, as this coin is good...
"Better one sparrow in thy hand than a thousand on the wing" - Proverbs of Ahikar the Wise, 6th Century Assyria, #51 [ATTACH] Noodle snacks, CC...
[ATTACH] Апостол Павел,(“Apostle Paul”, Andrei Rublev c. AD 1410; Zvenigorod, Russian Federation (Public Domain image) Inspired by @Roman...
[ATTACH] The coronation of the young Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus as Byzantine co-emperor in 908 from a 12th or 13th century illuminated...
Back to the Roman republic, this is the first coin that I have with full obverse bust of Vulcan. I admit, that "dancing chicken" was not the...
We all find different coins attractive and interesting, and I have generally favored Roman Republican coins and coins of the 2nd to 1st century BC...
It is somehow fitting that my post that eventually stumbles on an ancient library should start with a the vocabulary words that I've failed to...
My latest coin is a tetradrachm from Antioch with a fabulous Tyche. This coin comes from the beginning of the first century BC as the Seleucid...
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