A silver denarius of Septimius Severus, struck at the mint of Laodicea ad Mare between 198 and 202 CE, is a deceptively modest object - 17 millimeters in diameter and weighing 3.04 grams. The modesty underrepresents the significant geopolitical events at play. The first attractions are the fine style of the portrait, the cabinet tone, and the reverse legend VICTORIAE AVGG FEL. The coin carries a bearded portrait of the African-born emperor, advertising his self-claimed Antoni

The official story is that Romulus was taken up to heaven. On the seventh of July, Romulus was conducting a public sacrifice outside the city, at a place called the Goat's Marsh with the senate and most of the people present. A sudden storm broke. The sky darkened, a cloud descended to the ground, and violent winds and rain scattered the crowd. When the weather cleared, Romulus was gone. He was never found, alive or dead.

In the winter of 379 BC, a small group of Theban exiles returned from Athens to a city held under Spartan occupation. Some entered Thebes under the guise of hunters; later that night, conspirators in women’s clothing entered a banquet and killed the pro-Spartan polemarchs. The coup ended the Spartan occupation of the Kadmeia and opened the way to Thebes’ brief but extraordinary ascendancy in Greece. This stater may belong to that world. The standard catalogue tradition dates

Thrace, c. 187-72 BC Who were "the Odrysians" and what was there relationship to Macedonia? Seuthes III, King of Thrace, was active in the late fourth century BC and was among the last major Odrysian rulers recognizable as an independent Thracian king in the time period after Alexander the Great. He established a regional power base around Seuthopolis and issued bronze coinage. Computer rendering of the project to restore access to the ruins of Seuthopolis, rediscovered in th