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

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...

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

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...

"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...

If you look beneath the surface and consider what happened and what it felt like to the people who lived in these times, the environment...

Terrence was a former slave who became a famous playwright from the Roman republic. He wrote six comic plays in the mid 2nd century BC,...

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...

M. Aemilius Scaurus & M. Caecilius Metellus chosen as consuls in 638 AUC (ab urbe condita or 'from the founding of the City'). Image from...

A Roman republican denarius from a moneyer with a family name that traces to the legendary origins of Rome (7th century BC) and the...

During the time of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Rome was already beginning to interfere in the governance of Egypt. Cicero references an...

While this post will start in "modern" times with a "modern" coin, I will ask the reader's patience...eventually it will go back to...

After the death of Alexander the Great in June of 323 BC, his generals fought each other and divided up his empire. Seleukos I took the...

My coin of interest today is a Roman Republic denarius with a sphinx on the reverse, the style of the sphinx is similar to this 1st...

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

February 19, 197, the armies of Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus clashed in Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France), and concluded the civil...

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

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

Nero was a fan of Greek Athletics. He tried to set up the Neronia, a Roman counterpart of the Olympics and other Pan-Hellenic festivals...