This story of the first diplomatic contact between Rome and Parthia, is illustrated with three coins. The story begins around 101 BC when the...
I joined CT one year ago today, Nov. 17, 2018 and I am thankful for all the amazing experts of CT who make informative posts and generously share...
[ATTACH] This is a small AE coin, 10x12mm 1.15g that caught my attention with the odd looking plant on the reverse. Not having much experience...
[ATTACH] I have a brockage of the Roman Republican denarius shown above. The picture above is from Ernest Babelon, Cosconia 1, published in...
Beyond exploring ancient coins & the history associated, I am slowly improving my ability to photograph the coins. CT members and posts have been...
This weekends auctions didn't work out well for me - all bids struck out. Fortunately there was consolation in the coin in my mailbox this week....
Although I happily use digital resources, I do enjoy a nice hardcover book...The Early Cistophoric Coinage by Fred S. Kleiner and Sydney P. Noe,...
[ATTACH] While the portraits often draw me to a coin - the stories of the people and the history of the Roman Republic linked to it bring me back....
Although I got this from a seller that I trust, something about this coin looked odd to me, the fabric, some elements of the obverse design, the...
To fully appreciate this coin of Hadrian that is at least tentatively defined as an uncia or 1/12th of an As ...[ATTACH] Hadrian, 117-138 AD, Æ...
Aesculapius (aka Asclepius), son of Apollo and god of medicine, was one of the deities imported to Rome from the East. Aesculapius was introduced...
Bankers' marks were a way to distinguish official coinage from counterfeit, and perhaps had other purposes that are lost (at least to me). While...
Reading this book: The Sunrise Collection, Assar intro, and revisiting today a coin of Vologases III, which I am updating to Pakoros I (Corrected...
[ATTACH]Continuing from my last thread, Sulla went off to fight Mithridates after damaging the Roman republic with his attack on Rome and the...
It was "Christmas in July" when this “Star of Bethlehem” coin arrived this week. Although it is not Roman republican, it is one that has been on...
238 AD must have been an interesting year in Rome - 6 emperors - beating the previous record of 5 in 193 AD, and doubling the number in 69 AD. An...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] (Images Public Domain ex-wikipedia) Last week I shared a coin from Brutus, that celebrated his family history of tyrannicide, in...
On July 4th, 1776 the Continental Congress "...in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare,...
This coin was issued near the end of the Roman republic and is an artifact of Mark Antony's alliance with Lepidus in the days before they met with...
I am trying to link this coin to the right time and ruler - I've found very similar coins in multiple auctions and databases attributed to two...
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