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12 Olympians
Walters Art Gallery, Twelve Gods Relief, 1st Century BC - 1st Century AD (Public Domain Image) The twelve Olympians were the major...
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sulla80
- Oct 10, 2020
- 2 min
Vulcan and the Dancing Chicken
This is the first coin that I have with full obverse bust of Vulcan. I admit, that "dancing chicken" was not the intent of the moneyer,...
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sulla80
- Oct 8, 2020
- 3 min
Ceres and Her Serpent Chariot
Image of Ceres giving her chariot to Triptolemus published in Les Metamorphoses d'Ouide,1621 With this coin, I am getting back to Roman...
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sulla80
- Sep 22, 2020
- 6 min
Calculating the Price
I tend to shy away from discussion of the price of ancient coins - while the price is relevant, even primary, in defining which coins I...
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sulla80
- Sep 19, 2020
- 3 min
Julius Caesar in Antioch
In 66 BC, during The Third Mithridatic War (73-63 BC) between the Roman Republic and Mithridates VI of Pontus, Pompey “The Great” took...
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sulla80
- Sep 19, 2020
- 4 min
Prusias II and the Roman Republic
Prusias II, King of Bithynia, Reduced to Begging (Public Domain Image, with thanks to the Getty Museum Open Content Program) In a...
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sulla80
- Sep 11, 2020
- 4 min
Romans vs. Parthians
After a number of diversions in Anatolia, and a bit of a Roman Republican drought, this week I added another Roman Republican coin to my...
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sulla80
- Sep 6, 2020
- 4 min
Between a rock and a hard place
I will start the story of this coin with Homer's Odyssey, and the passage where Odysseus and his crew are navigating between Charybdis, a...
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sulla80
- Sep 6, 2020
- 2 min
Roma, She-wolf and Twins
It's been a while since I last purchased a Roman republican coin. Although my interest hasn't moved away - the coins that I am looking...
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sulla80
- Sep 6, 2020
- 3 min
Q. Caecilius Metellus supporter of Sulla
This denarius, gives me a reason to return to the story of Sulla and the War with Mithridates VI of Pontus. After hastily wrapping up...
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sulla80
- Sep 6, 2020
- 5 min
46 BC, The Longest Year
I took this photograph of the clock in the old town square in Prague a few years ago. The clock dates from 1410 and was made by Mikuláš...
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sulla80
- Sep 6, 2020
- 2 min
Sulla's grandson and a rare obverse die
After the first Social War (91-88 BC), in which Lucius Cornelius Sulla distinguished himself as a general especially in his defeat of the...
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sulla80
- Sep 6, 2020
- 2 min
Arsakes XVI and the Third Mithridatic War
Attributing Parthian coins to a king and time period, can be complicated. This coin, 30.16, is assigned by Sellwood to an Unknown King...
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sulla80
- Sep 6, 2020
- 4 min
Sulla in Cappadocia: First Meeting with Parthia
This story of the first diplomatic contact between Rome and Parthia, is illustrated with three coins. The story begins around 101 BC when...
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sulla80
- Sep 6, 2020
- 3 min
Lentulus Clodianus, defeated by Spartacus
Roman republican coins capture faces from the first and second century BC. This coin of Cn Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus, a silver...
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sulla80
- Sep 6, 2020
- 3 min
L. Cosconius Brockage Error
The coin shared today is a brockage of the Roman Republican denarius shown above. A brockage happens when a newly minted coin sticks to...
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sulla80
- Sep 6, 2020
- 2 min
Ancient Ships
There are a few Roman republican coins with images of ships on them, here are two variants (control mark) of one of these coins: C....
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sulla80
- Sep 5, 2020
- 1 min
Games of Sulla's Victory
Coins linked to Lucius Cornelius Sulla are one of the primary themes of my collection. The reverse on this coin references games that...
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sulla80
- Sep 5, 2020
- 4 min
Asclepius and a plague in 87 BC
Asclepius (a.k.a. Aesculapius), son of Apollo and god of medicine, was one of the deities imported to Rome from the East. Asclepius was...
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sulla80
- Sep 5, 2020
- 3 min
Sulla and Mithridates
Coins related to the time of Lucius Cornelius Sulla have been a key theme in my collecting the past couple of years. Continuing from my...
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