Suetonius is responsible for setting the 12-Caesars benchmark that all ancient coin collectors have to live with. There are other sets...

Gate to the agora (assembly place) of ancient Kibyra I think it is only fair to offer caution that this thread wanders a bit far from...

My coin today comes with the story of Herakles and Omphale and is a very rare coin that is impressively well engraved, struck and well...

Recently I've been wandering from ancient into medieval coins and this one takes me far away from the Roman republic. When I originally...

In 2002 a tetradrachm was found with an obverse die of Seleucid King Antiochus VII and a reverse die shared with a tetradrachm of...

The central figures in Raphael's fresco, "The School of Athens" are Plato and Aristotle. With gestures that reflect their body of work,...

“The cistophorus, with its writhing serpents and over-elaborate ornamentation, is perhaps the ugliest coin in the Greek series....

This year I have explored the coins of Asia Minor or the Anatolian peninsula. Anatolia was named by the Greeks, anatolḗ means “sunrise"...

In 1237 CE, Ḡīāṯ-al-Dīn Kayḵosrow II became sultan when his father, Kayqubad I (1219-1237 CE), died. He would reign until his death in...

This year I have explored the coins of Asia Minor or the Anatolian peninsula. Anatolia from Greek Ἀνατολή, meaning "The East" is the...

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...

This large Antiochus III Seleucid bronze, called "Denomination A" in SC (Houghton & Lorber) appears to be very rare and the best example...

Understanding ancient coins can sometimes get very contentious as those studying the coins disagree. One such battle arose over the coins...

Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos baptizes Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus from a 12th or 13th century illuminated manuscript known as the...

I have three drachms of Ariarathes IX, with very different portraits. I had not read the article by Mørkholm until I after I purchased...

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...

Base of a funerary kouros, Athens 510-500 BC, with wrestlers – National Archaeological Museum Greece There are coins from Nicaea,...

This year continues to add more coins of Asia Minor than Roman republic to my collection. Today a coin from Phrygia, Laodikeia - also...

Aristotle lived on Mytilene during the period in which these coins were minted. The dates are variously reported, somewhere between...

Prusias II, King of Bithynia, Reduced to Begging (Public Domain Image, with thanks to the Getty Museum Open Content Program) In a...