Today's post shares more coins than usual. All of these coins are linked to the Mongol khans. Perhaps the best known Mongol leader is...

Public Domain Image published by Chez le citoyen Mirys in Paris, 1799 This coin interested me for several reasons : the link to the time...

Public Domain Image, etching "Aurora" by Guido Reni 1886 In 1637, Francescus Junius published "De Pictvra Vetervm Libri Tres" (Of Ancient...

While one can spend thousands of dollars on a popular, beautiful ancient coin, you can also get an interesting coin for under $5. LRB is...

Next week is Thanksgiving, and I am looking forward to the family gathering and a return to Thanksgiving traditions that we missed last...

This week I am adding an extra "Note" commemorating 3 years of "Notes on Ancient Coins" and post number 160. The photos celebrate the...

"Paul replied, “I am standing before the judgment seat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as...

“There are many rats depicted on ancient coins, this one has an actual rat.” - Frank Robinson, ancient coin dealer, in one of his online...

Today's post wanders into the middle ages during the time of the crusades. The crusades were a series of wars between Christians and...

"The site of the Cilician city known during the period of the Roman Empire as Caesarea, Caesarea by Anazarbus, or Anazarbus , is some 28...

In the COVID-19 pandemic world, it is a bit too easy to imagine the plagues of ancient Rome. Plagues are often referenced in ancient...

J. M. W. Turner, Dido Building Carthage, oil on canvas, 1815, Public Domain image. It seems clear that Augustus was good at marketing:...

The coins of interest today are not Roman republican. They are from a time period that that has interested me from my first coin: a worn...

‘With these beans I throw I redeem me and mine.’ -Ovid, Fasti Book V, Lemuria Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz by Thomé,...

In response to several requests, today's post provides an entry point to other notes on this site. There are many coins that a collector...

Muscle cuirass Lanuvium c. 475 BC This coin weighs in at 0.49g, about half weight of the last small coin that I posted and about the...

In his introduction to “The Roman Republic”, Michael Crawford writes: “Some parts of the story may perhaps seem unduly dramatic; I can...

ADDENDUM 8/2024: I am sorry to share that the small 1/4 Drachm coin shown here has been called out as a modern fake, while I don't have...

Lex Titia, passed by the senate on November, 27 43 BCE, formed the "2nd Triumvirate", and granted broad authority to Mark Antony, Lepidus...

The newest addition to my collection is tied to Alexander the Great at a turbulent time near the end of his life or shortly after his...