A brief note today on a small coin from Hadrian, contrasted here with a large sestertius from Rome. The smaller coin is an uncertain...

Ruins of Nicopolis ad Istrum - public domain image via wikimedia commons. Novius Rufus was a legate (hypateon) or praeses (hegemon) of...

The arrival of an Alexandrian Tetradrachm of Commodus led to a deep dive into the life of Commodus and his coins. Commodus was the son of...

I was immediately taken with this early portrait of Faustina II on my latest coin of interest. The details of both jeweled hair on the ...

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...

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...

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

According to this US Inflation Calculator , which must be good because it was ranked highest by Google, if I purchased a coin in 1978 for...

The featured coin today is a tetradrachm of Nero from Antioch. It is dated by both the regnal Year of Nero (RY 8) and by a Caesarean Era...

While one can spend thousands of dollars on a popular, beautiful ancient coin, you can also get an interesting coin for under $5. LRB is...

In the COVID-19 pandemic world, it is a bit too easy to imagine the plagues of ancient Rome. Plagues are often referenced in ancient...

J. M. W. Turner, Dido Building Carthage, oil on canvas, 1815, Public Domain image. It seems clear that Augustus was good at marketing:...

The coins of interest today are not Roman republican. They are from a time period that that has interested me from my first coin: a worn...

Ann Johnson writes about the challenges of differentiating provincial coinage of Caracalla and Elagabalus: Johnston, A. (1982). Caracalla...

When my focus shifted to the Roman republic, I sold most of my late roman bronzes. I kept a few that I particularly liked. My coins of...

Severus Alexander was the last Severan emperor. He ruled from AD 222-235, at age 13 succeeding his first cousin Elagabalus. Julia Maesa,...

Coins from Moesia Inferior don't make either edition of Harlan J. Berk's 100 Greatest Ancient Coins , maybe the next edition. There are...

With an Antoninianus of Probus with Salus reverse I have completed a set of 6 coins with a hidden message. I first learned of this...

Image: Emperor Probus, Abraham Bogaert, De Roomsche Monarchy , 1697 Today's coin of interest is a coin of Emperor Probus from AD 280. I...