These coin are not pretty by most standards, but they are interesting for the history they witnessed ~2100 years ago during the First...

These notes were originally written for the tetradrachm from Antioch, that is found at the end of this text, with a fabulous Tyche. The...

In an earlier post (Sept 15, 2020), I shared two Roman Imperial denarii of Vespasian from Ephesus. I have since added two more of these...

When Attalus III died in the late spring or early summer of 133 BC, he bequeathed his kingdom to the Romans. This Early Cistophoric Coin...

Greek wrestlers apparently had more than one move. "These staters which seemingly display only a pair of wrestling figures at first...

"It’s for each of us to decide whether to believe in one Homer or in many, in a blind bard or in a spirit that encapsulates the most...

This map (a detail from The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923) shows the western edge of Asia Minor (a.k.a. Anatolia or...

Since my first note (November 2020) on countermarks of Attic standard tetradrachms, I have added three more coins, so my notes needed some...

Seleucid King Antiochus The Great (223-187 BC), expanded his empire by installing Artaxias as the governor (strategos) of Greater Armenia...

I have been slowly adding Cistophoric tetradrachms from various cities in Asia minor, and today was looking back at one of my first posts...

It is a new year, 2022! Appropriately, today's post opens with new beginnings and Aeneas arriving from Troy to the shores of Italy and...

After wandering a bit into medieval Islamic coins and the Mongol khans of the 13th and 14th century, I inevitably return to 1st century...

"The site of the Cilician city known during the period of the Roman Empire as Caesarea, Caesarea by Anazarbus, or Anazarbus , is some 28...

The newest addition to my collection is tied to Alexander the Great at a turbulent time near the end of his life or shortly after his...

This note will start with a drachm from Cappadocia, a key point of conflict between the Roman republic and the Kingdom of Pontus. There...

My coin of interest today is a mysterious AE from the late first century with no shortage of competing views on whose portrait appears on...

My coin of interest today comes from Asia minor, the west coast of modern Türkiye, just south of Pergamon and east of Kyme. This coin has...

Researching ancient coins and the people behind them, my knowledge of ancient geography is regularly challenged. Today's post shares 4...

Heinrich Kiepert, Paphlagonia, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Paphlagonia was in northern Anatolia and was bordered by Bythnia to...

"If we set aside the language of Seleukid royal discourse, it is far from obvious how we should discriminate between legitimate kings and...