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...

I have been accumulating some interesting, and good looking coins from Asia, roughly areas today that are Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan....

Researching ancient coins and the people behind them, my knowledge of ancient geography is regularly stretched and challenged. Today's...

Heinrich Kiepert, Paphlagonia, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Paphlagonia was in northern Anatolia and was bordered by Bythnia to...

"If we set aside the language of Seleukid royal discourse, it is far from obvious how we should discriminate between legitimate kings and...

Seutonius is responsible for setting the 12-Caesars benchmark that all ancient coin collectors have to live with. There are other sets...

Gate to the agora (assembly place) of ancient Kibyra I think it is only fair to offer caution that this thread wanders a bit far from...

My coin today comes with the story of Herakles and Omphale and is a very rare coin that is impressively well engraved, struck and well...

Recently I've been wandering from ancient into medieval coins and this one takes me far away from the Roman republic. When I originally...

The Cappadocians didn't mint a lot of tetradrachms. My coin today was identified by the seller as one of a series of issues with control...

The central figures in Raphael's fresco, "The School of Athens" are Plato and Aristotle. With gestures that reflect their body of work,...

“The cistophorus, with its writhing serpents and over-elaborate ornamentation, is perhaps the ugliest coin in the Greek series....

This year I have explored the coins of Asia Minor or the Anatolian peninsula. Anatolia called this by the Greeks, meaning "The East" is...

In 1237 AD, Ḡīāṯ-al-Dīn Kayḵosrow II became sultan when his father died. He would reign until his death in 1245 AD. Bar Hebraeus (AD 1226...

This year I have explored the coins of Asia Minor or the Anatolian peninsula. Anatolia from Greek Ἀνατολή, meaning "The East" is the...

While it is possible that one more coin might show up this year, it seems unlikely that I will displace any of the coins listed below, so...

This large Antiochus III Seleucid bronze, called "Denomination A" in SC (Houghton & Lorber) appears to be very rare and the best example...

Understanding ancient coins can sometimes get very contentious as those studying the coins disagree. One such battle arose over the...

Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos baptizes Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus from a 12th or 13th century illuminated manuscript known as the...

I have three drachms of Ariarathes IX, with very different portraits. I had not read the article by Mørkholm until I after I purchased...