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Ancient Souvenirs from Asia Minor
This year I have explored the coins of Asia Minor or the Anatolian peninsula. Anatolia from Greek Ἀνατολή, meaning "The East" is the...
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Nov 22, 20206 min read
Top 10 Ancients for 2020
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...
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Nov 14, 20203 min read
Large Seleucid Bronze Coin
This large Antiochus III Seleucid bronze, called "Denomination A" in SC (Houghton & Lorber) appears to be very rare and the best example...
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Oct 31, 20203 min read
Attributing Cappadocian Coins
Understanding ancient coins can sometimes get very contentious as those studying the coins disagree. One such battle arose over the coins...
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Oct 17, 20205 min read
Constantine VII, Born in the Purple
Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos baptizes Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus from a 12th or 13th century illuminated manuscript known as the...
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Oct 9, 20204 min read
A Father's Support
I have three drachms of Ariarathes IX, with very different portraits. I had not read the article by Mørkholm until I after I purchased...
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Oct 6, 20202 min read
Power Behind the Throne
I've always had difficulty passing up a Salus reverse (Goddess of Health) , and even more so in this year of COVID-19. This coin is from...
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Oct 2, 20205 min read
Games of Brotherly Love
Base of a funerary kouros, Athens 510-500 BC, with wrestlers – National Archaeological Museum Greece There are coins from Nicaea,...
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Oct 2, 20202 min read
A Phrygian Cornucopia
This year continues to add more coins of Asia Minor than Roman republic to my collection. Today a coin from Phrygia, Laodikeia - also...
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Sep 19, 20201 min read
Aristotle on Mytilene
Aristotle lived on Mytilene during the period in which these coins were minted. The dates are variously reported, somewhere between...
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Sep 19, 20205 min read
Prusias II and the Roman Republic
Prusias II, King of Bithynia, Reduced to Begging (Public Domain Image, with thanks to the Getty Museum Open Content Program) In a...
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Sep 19, 20203 min read
Sibylline Books
Suetonius, Julius Caesar, 79.3 The Sibylline books were consulted by Romans from the time of the republic through to the end of the...
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Sep 8, 20203 min read
Cappadocia : Vespasian Hemidrachm
With the evolving global pandemic, it seems unlikely that much leisure travel will be part of my near term plans. The phrase, "may you...
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Sep 7, 20203 min read
Mt. Argaeus, Gordian III, and Shapur I
In the words of Tom Petty, “even the losers get lucky sometimes”. You have to love an auction where you lose and still get the coin you ...
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Sep 7, 20204 min read
Perseus, St. Paul, and Antoninus Pius
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...
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Sep 7, 20203 min read
Tropaion : Turning Point to Victory
This "Greek" coin from Pergamon is the coin of interest for this week. Mysia, Pergamon, 159-133 BC, Æ (16.6mm,5.36g, 12h) Obv: Helmeted...
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Sep 6, 20204 min read
The Votive Deposit in Field 49
As I was updating this post, written earlier this year, I stumbled on a 2014 blog entry with a photo that seems to be the two votive...
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Sep 6, 20202 min read
A Rare Roman Provincial
Rare is not rare in Roman Provincials, and affordable condition and rarity are benefits of wandering off the most well worn paths of...
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Sep 6, 20202 min read
Lydian Moon God - Meis Axiottenos
Mên, illustrated in this marble Roman relief from the 2nd Century AD, is the Moon god of Roman Anatolia, perhaps connected with the...
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Sep 6, 20203 min read
AE Coin from Ekkarra, Achaea Phthiotis
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...
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