The ancient Romans, celebrated a feast on March 31st, in the Temple of Luna on the Aventine Hill to honor the Moon Goddess, a cult...

Perfectly centered and well preserved coins, are certainly worthy of admiration. However, as a collector of ancients, I find beauty...

The Emperor Commodus was murdered on December 31, 192, and the Empire faced another period of a civil war. His murderers put foward...

Amasia (variants: Amasea, Amasya, Amaseia) sits on a narrow pass or gorge between two large hills. Cut into the rock faces above the river..

Veterans Day honors active and former US service members and is celebrated, in the US, today, November 11th. My coin today comes from a...

Today's coins of interest are from Probus, a soldier emperor, who rose up from the ranks and served four emperors before being proclaimed...

It seems that the uptick in interest in Rome is having an effect on the popularity of my musings on what has, up until now, felt like an...

An usual location for a Roman Provincial coin of Hadrian is as good a reason as any to add it to a collection. I didn't recognize...

Germanicus had a complicated royal family tree: he was the son of general Nero Claudius Drusus who was the son of Livia Drusilla and...

​In the US, the third Sunday in June is reserved to celebrate fathers. While several internet sites mention the necktie as tie most...

This coin is properly attributed as RIC VI Heraclea 75. It comes from a time period close to the Battle of Milvian Bridge before which...

Maximinus II is known in coin auctions as Daia, this name perhaps a misspelling from the writing of Lacantius, that is challenged by...

A brief note today on a small coin from Hadrian, contrasted here with a large sestertius from Rome. The smaller coin is an uncertain...

Ruins of Nicopolis ad Istrum - public domain image via wikimedia commons. Novius Rufus was a legate (hypateon) or praeses (hegemon) of...

The arrival of an Alexandrian Tetradrachm of Commodus led to a deep dive into the life of Commodus and his coins. Commodus was the son of...

I was immediately taken with this early portrait of Faustina II on my latest coin of interest. The details of both jeweled hair on the ...

August Signs I picked up this little coin mostly for the well executed scorpion. It is a little bronze weighing, 2.88mg and 13mm in...

I am not expecting that most collectors look at this coin and say "Wow, that's a beautiful coin", I myself didn't have that reaction. I...

Today's coin is a fairly scarce issue from AD 353 which comes with interesting history of the years after Constantine the Great's death...

Perhaps it is not surprising in these notes pages that Lais of Corinth attracted my interest because of the reverse of an ancient coin....