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Sulla's Warning
I guess I like this coin from the time of Sulla's dictatorship as I have all three varieties identified by Crawford: 1a, 1b, and 1c...the...
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sulla80
- Apr 4, 2021
- 5 min
Greeks and Cattle
Humans have been making images of cattle for many millennia - this painting from Lascaux caves depicts aurochs (wild ancestors of...
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sulla80
- Mar 30, 2021
- 4 min
FRVGI, Father & Son
Here are three coins from father and son, the last one a coin that just arrived today. The denarius of the father, from the time of the...
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sulla80
- Mar 28, 2021
- 5 min
Roman Provinces & Corruption
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...
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sulla80
- Mar 13, 2021
- 3 min
Europa
My first coin today is a Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachm of Caracalla, from Sidon with Europa on the reverse. Sidon is named for King Sidon...
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sulla80
- Mar 7, 2021
- 2 min
Roman Political Career Paths
This coin prompted a bit of exploration of the cursus honorem, the ladder of a political career in ancient Rome. It also added the word...
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sulla80
- Feb 27, 2021
- 4 min
Of Sulla and Apollo
Marius and Sulla tore at the fabric of the Roman republic with their personal ambitions which led to civil wars for the Roman Republic in...
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sulla80
- Feb 20, 2021
- 3 min
Gaius Marius
Gaius Marius (b. ~157 BC - d. 13 January 86 BC) was the rival of Sulla in the Roman Civil Wars between 87-80 BC. Marius was seven times...
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sulla80
- Feb 20, 2021
- 7 min
Decrypting Crawford RRC
One of the cryptic codes that you can recognize in Crawford’s Roman Republican Coinage (RRC) is “RE” as for this coin in the sentence on...
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sulla80
- Feb 20, 2021
- 2 min
Fun Provenance Find
The Schaefer die study pages were added not long ago to the Coinage of the Roman Republic Online.Over about 25 years, Richard Schaefer...
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sulla80
- Feb 11, 2021
- 4 min
Governments of Men and Laws
With this post, I return to the Roman Republic, with a coin from Lucius Cornelius Sulla. This denarius is from Sulla's dictatorship,...
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sulla80
- Jan 30, 2021
- 4 min
Roman Voting Laws
This coin honors a relative of the moneyer who was responsible for voting reforms. 63 BC was an eventful year with many familiar names:...
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sulla80
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
Aristotle's Library and a Coin of Troas
The central figures in Raphael's fresco, "The School of Athens" are Plato and Aristotle. With gestures that reflect their body of work,...
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sulla80
- Jan 17, 2021
- 3 min
Pyrrhic Victories and Battle Elephants
Elephants must have looked like mythical monsters to the Romans when they first encountered them in battles against King Pyrrhus of...
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sulla80
- Jan 5, 2021
- 5 min
Roman Grasshoppers
The conflict between East and West is an important theme in my collection with Sulla leaving Rome to take on Mithridates VI of Pontus who...
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sulla80
- Dec 31, 2020
- 7 min
Romans in Asia Minor & Cistophori
“The cistophorus, with its writhing serpents and over-elaborate ornamentation, is perhaps the ugliest coin in the Greek series....
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sulla80
- Dec 30, 2020
- 6 min
Hoards and Proserpina
Some of the most used reference books for ancient coins are not new. For Roman republican coins, RRC was published by Crawford in 1974 –...
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sulla80
- Dec 27, 2020
- 5 min
Crocodiles and Romans
One does not have to look far to see signs in Nîmes, France of the city's origins as a Roman colony. The crocodile chained to the palm...
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sulla80
- Nov 26, 2020
- 5 min
The Gracchi Brothers and Social Reforms
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, by Joseph-Benoît Suvée (1795, Louvre), Public Domain image from the wikipedia. Cornelia was the daughter...
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sulla80
- Nov 22, 2020
- 6 min
Top 10 for 2020
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...
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