sulla80Sep 6, 20203 minAE Coin from Ekkarra, Achaea PhthiotisThe depiction of Artemis and portrait of Zeus on this 14mm, 2.0g, AE coin were the reason I purchased the coin. It wasn’t until it...
sulla80Sep 6, 20202 minPaphlagonia, Sinope under Mithradates VI EupatorSinope, Paphlagonia in Northern Anatolia is on the southern shores of the Black Sea and it is still a city today in modern Türkiye see...
sulla80Sep 6, 20203 minQ. 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...
sulla80Sep 6, 20202 minSulla's grandson and a rare obverse dieAfter the first Social War (91-88 BC), in which Lucius Cornelius Sulla distinguished himself as a general especially in his defeat of the...