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Paying the Troops
These coin are not pretty by most standards, but they are interesting for the history they witnessed ~2100 years ago during the First...
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sulla80
- Oct 21, 2022
- 4 min
Seleucid Empire: Family Politics
These notes were originally written for the tetradrachm from Antioch, that is found at the end of this text, with a fabulous Tyche. The...
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sulla80
- Sep 17, 2022
- 2 min
Coins of Vespasian from Ephesus
In an earlier post (Sept 15, 2020), I shared two Roman Imperial denarii of Vespasian from Ephesus. I have since added two more of these...
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sulla80
- Jun 26, 2022
- 2 min
16 Wrestling Moves
Greek wrestlers apparently had more than one move. "These staters which seemingly display only a pair of wrestling figures at first...
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sulla80
- Jun 11, 2022
- 5 min
Home to Homer
"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...
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sulla80
- May 28, 2022
- 5 min
Amazon Kyme
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...
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sulla80
- Apr 13, 2022
- 9 min
Between the Seleucid and Attalid Kingdom
Since my first note (November 2020) on countermarks of Attic tetradrachms, I have added three more coins, so my notes needed some ...
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sulla80
- Mar 27, 2022
- 4 min
Tigranes II the Great
Seleucid King Antiochus The Great (223-187 BC), expanded his empire by installing Artaxias as the governor (strategos) of Greater Armenia...
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sulla80
- Feb 19, 2022
- 5 min
Thracian Wine & Coins
A nice glass of red wine would go well with today's post. There is evidence of wine making in Thrace from 4300 BC. The coins of...
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sulla80
- Jan 15, 2022
- 9 min
Lysimachos, Pergamon and Cistophori
I have been slowly adding Cistophoric tetradrachms from various cities in Asia minor, and today was looking back at one of my first posts...
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sulla80
- Jan 1, 2022
- 5 min
New Beginnings & Ancient Symbols
It is a new year, 2022! Appropriately, today's post opens with new beginnings and Aeneas arriving from Troy to the shores of Italy and...
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sulla80
- Dec 31, 2021
- 5 min
Coins to Rebuild Apameia
After wandering a bit into medieval Islamic coins and the Mongol khans of the 13th and 14th century, I inevitably return to 1st century...
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sulla80
- Oct 17, 2021
- 3 min
First, Greatest and Most Beautiful
"The site of the Cilician city known during the period of the Roman Empire as Caesarea, Caesarea by Anazarbus, or Anazarbus , is some 28...
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sulla80
- Aug 14, 2021
- 5 min
Alexander the Great in Asia
The newest addition to my collection is tied to Alexander the Great at a turbulent time near the end of his life. As Alexander proposed...
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sulla80
- Aug 8, 2021
- 8 min
"Sullan Era" Tetradrachms
This note will start with a drachm from Cappadocia, a key point of conflict between the Roman republic and the Kingdom of Pontus. There...
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sulla80
- Aug 4, 2021
- 3 min
Mysterious AE from 1st Century BCE
My coin of interest today is a mysterious AE from the late first century with no shortage of competing views on whose portrait appears on...
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sulla80
- Jul 10, 2021
- 2 min
Tisna River God
My coin of interest today comes from Asia minor, the west coast of modern Turkey, just south of Pergamon and east of Kyme. This coin has...
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sulla80
- Jun 27, 2021
- 5 min
An Emerging Story
I have been accumulating some interesting, and good looking coins from Asia, roughly areas today that are Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan....
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sulla80
- May 13, 2021
- 3 min
Seleucia ad Calycadnum
Researching ancient coins and the people behind them, my knowledge of ancient geography is regularly challenged. Today's post shares 4...
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sulla80
- May 1, 2021
- 3 min
Pylaimenes II/III Euergetes
Heinrich Kiepert, Paphlagonia, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Paphlagonia was in northern Anatolia and was bordered by Bythnia to...
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