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Bankers' Marks & Juno Moneta
Bankers' marks were a way to differentiate official coinage from counterfeit, and perhaps had other purposes that are lost (at least to...
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sulla80
- Sep 5, 2020
- 2 min
Sulla, Marius and an Anonymous denarius
In a previous post, I shared a coin from Brutus, that celebrated his family history of tyrannicide. This week, a much humbler coin,...
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sulla80
- Aug 28, 2020
- 1 min
Quinarius from a time of "Massive Recoinage"
I was a little worried about the fragility of this coin when I bid on it and was pleasantly surprised see that, in hand, the flan crack...
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sulla80
- Aug 27, 2020
- 2 min
Birds and Bad Luck
The gens Fabia was a prominent patrician family, who claimed descent from both Hercules and Evander. One branch of the gens Fabia, the...
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sulla80
- Aug 27, 2020
- 2 min
46 BC 180 Obverse Double Strike
This coin struck me as unusual, and I couldn't decide which way was "up" - so I didn't hesitate to pick it up. All three images below are...
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sulla80
- Aug 27, 2020
- 5 min
From Ancient Tech to Modern World
Technology over the ages in health and social media illustrated with Roman Republican coins. I am starting my blog with a post on a Roman...
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sulla80
- Jul 4, 2019
- 2 min
An Ancient Coin for Independence Day
On July 4th, 1776 the Continental Congress "...in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and...
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sulla80
- May 26, 2019
- 3 min
A Denarius of Mark Antony & Lepidus
This coin was issued near the end of the Roman republic and is an artifact of Mark Antony's alliance with Lepidus in the days before they...
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