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Ancient India: Coin Gallery
Today's coins (20 of them) come with minimal descriptions of their era. This is a collection of unusual Indian coins from ancient to...
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sulla80
- 6 days ago
- 12 min
Zeus-Serapis?
This set of notes started from a discussion of "syncretism" and when or how Zeus and Serapis started to blend across Greco-Roman-Egyptian...
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sulla80
- Sep 1
- 5 min
Kaidu Khan & Khutulun
Kublai Khan (1215-1294), who was also called Emperor Shizu of the Yuan, was the son of Tolui, the youngest son of Genghis Khan. This...
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sulla80
- Aug 24
- 6 min
The Torquati
"The Torquati were a distinguished patrician family. Their cognomen derived, or so the story went,' from an incident in 36I B.C. when an...
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sulla80
- Aug 22
- 4 min
Cicero's Savior from Exile
I was pleasantly surprised to discover the DPRR today (Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic). I don't know how long it has been...
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sulla80
- Aug 11
- 3 min
Clashes in Transoxiana
I have to admit that I am drawn to coins that are not popular and periods in history that are not well known. One current interest is...
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sulla80
- Aug 3
- 4 min
Index to Sulla
The lifetime of Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 - 78 BC) was the time period that initially inspired this website - this page begins to...
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sulla80
- Aug 3
- 6 min
Silenus-Silanus
This week we look at a series of three coins from 91 BCE, near the start of the Social War or Marsic War. In this war, Sulla...
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sulla80
- Jul 28
- 3 min
Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
When is a coin ancient? and when medieval? and when modern? In my notes, I am often crossing these categories, although Roman Republic...
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sulla80
- Jul 27
- 5 min
Temple of Artemis, Ephesus
Paul the Apostle (2BC–64/65) stayed in Ephesus for about two and a half years from 53-56 BCE. In Acts 19.24-28 there is a story of Paul...
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sulla80
- Jul 26
- 4 min
What's new in ancient coin collecting?
The coins that are the subject of these Notes are often thousands of years old, so it is perhaps not surprising that much is unchanged in...
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sulla80
- Jul 15
- 4 min
Sibling Rivalry
The two sons left by Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, both received the surname Antoninus, one from the army, the other from...
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sulla80
- Jul 7
- 7 min
Stupor mundi / Wonder of the World
When Ghiyath al din Tughluq (1320-1325 CE) became sultan, he gave his eldest son the title Ulugh Khan and named him as successor. Ghiyath...
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sulla80
- Jul 4
- 4 min
July 4, 1776
by Authority of the good People of these Colonies....these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States...
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sulla80
- Jul 3
- 3 min
Prayers for Rain
The curious type of the Hydria is taken from the παράσημον (insignia) of the City of Crannon. It was customary in the time of drought ...
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sulla80
- Jun 22
- 4 min
Nerva: Succession & Reign
Nerva was named by the Senate as emperor on the same day that Domitian which certainly opens suspicion that there was no shortage of plan...
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sulla80
- Jun 19
- 7 min
Ulysses Returns
"Now, as they talked on, a dog that lay there lifted up his muzzle, pricked his ears. . . It was Argos, long-enduring Odysseus’ dog he...
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sulla80
- Jun 16
- 4 min
Severina, Empress
Ulpia Severina Augusta, wife of Emperor Aurelian is not named in ancient literature, however the Historia Augusta mentions her: Clothing...
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sulla80
- Jun 9
- 4 min
A Bird in the Hand
"Better one sparrow in thy hand than a thousand on the wing"
- Proverbs of Ahikar the Wise, 6th Century Assyria, #51
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sulla80
- Jun 8
- 4 min
The Year of Six Emperors
"It so happened that the two men were not in complete accord: so great is the desire for sole rule and so contrary to the usual practice...
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