[ATTACH]What do Perseus, St. Paul, and Antoninus Pius have in common? My coin of interest this week is another AE from Asia Minor, the Roman...
[ATTACH] A search of CT does not turn up an example of my latest coin. I will start the story of this coin with Homer's Odyssey, and the passage...
This "Greek" coin from Pergamon was the research puzzle that FedEx brought this week: [ATTACH] Mysia, Pergamon, 159-133 BC, Æ (20mm,7.25g, 12h)...
[ATTACH] Egypt, Alexandria, Gallienus, 253-268 Tetradrachm circa 262-263 (year 10) Size: 23mm, 10.63g Obv: Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust...
It's been a while since I last purchased a Roman republican coin. Although my interest hasn't moved away - the coins that I am looking for are...
Greeks and Scythians were different cultures, my most recent coin comes from the intersection at Olbia. Plutarch shares an anecdote of Atheas...
Another Roman provincial coin caught my interest…this coin, like the others, leading to undiscovered people, places, culture and events (at least...
[ATTACH]Rare is not rare in Roman Provincials, and affordable condition and rarity are benefits of wandering off the most well worn paths of...
[ATTACH] Image - Creative Commons License from the British Museum Mēn, illustrated in this marble Roman relief from the 2nd Century AD, is the...
[ATTACH]On 21-Feb-1787, The provisional government of the United States, established under the Articles of Confederation, agreed to a resolution...
Octavian (aka Augustus) conquered, or annexed, Egypt when Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide after the battle at Actium. Between 30 BC and AD...
A 1/5th tetradrachm is not a coin I had noticed before this one. An interesting 2.55g coin of Philip III, son of Philip II of Macedon,...
[ATTACH] A countermarked coin arrived this week and took me on a dive into Seleucid and Attalid countermarks on Attic tetradrachms. Why were...
[ATTACH]The depiction of Artemis and portrait of Zeus on this 14mm, 2.0g, AE coin were the reason I purchased the coin. It wasn’t until it...
[ATTACH]Sinope, Paphlagonia in Northern Anatolia is on the southern shores of the Black Sea and it is still a city today in modern Turkey see map....
[ATTACH] This recently acquired coin, gives me a reason to return to the story of Sulla and the War with Mithridates VI of Pontus. After hastily...
After three weeks of travels, I came home to find this coin had arrived in the mail. I am hoping that some of CT's Flavian fans will add to or...
[ATTACH]As we come to the end of 2019, and welcome in the New Year, it seems appropriate to reflect on time and the calendar. I photographed...
[ATTACH] After the first Social War (91-88 BC), in which Lucius Cornelius Sulla distinguished himself as a general especially in his defeat of the...
[ATTACH] This coin, 30.16, which Sellwood assigned to an Unknown King (II), as Shore 134 maps to Orodes I, in Sear maps to Gotares I, Mitchiner to...
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