These pages are literally my "Notes"- and this one is not much more than a few thoughts jotted down to pick up at another time. I have...

Today's coins of interest are both published "plate coins" from the Giovanni Dattari collection. For an excellent article on Giovanni...

Suetonius is responsible for setting the 12-Caesars benchmark that all ancient coin collectors have to live with. There are other sets...

I have quite a few Roman provincial Egyptian coins, but have not ventured much earlier into the Ptolemaic era. This first coin is one...

Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Crabb, George. Universal Historical Dictionary; Vol. 1. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. This coin from...

Here are five coins from father and son, the last one a coin that just arrived today. The denarius of the father, from the time of the...

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...

Money comes in all shapes and sizes, and these coins are not the usual Roman or Greek, denarius, AE, drachm, or tetradrachm that I have...

This silver tetradrachm from Alexandria, Egypt, of Vespasian finally made it through the mail system after a couple of months. It dates...

My first coin today is a Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachm of Caracalla, from Sidon with Europa on the reverse. Sidon is named for King Sidon...

My coin today comes with the story of Herakles and Omphale and is a very rare coin that is impressively well engraved, struck and well...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Schaefer die study pages were added not long ago to the Coinage of the Roman Republic Online.Over about 25 years, Richard Schaefer...

With this post, I return to the Roman Republic, with a coin from Lucius Cornelius Sulla. This denarius is from Sulla's dictatorship,...

Recently I've been wandering from ancient into medieval coins and this one takes me far away from the Roman republic. When I originally...

In 2002 a tetradrachm was found with an obverse die of Seleucid King Antiochus VII and a reverse die shared with a tetradrachm of...

Roman Thermae at Hamat Gader, under Israeli control a few kilometers from the Jordanian border. These Springs were restored and reopened...