The question often posed by family members caught up with me this morning: "Is your collection done?" A fair question, but not one I have...

Severus Alexander was the last Severan emperor. He ruled from AD 222-235, at age 13 succeeding his first cousin Elagabalus. Julia Maesa,...

Image source: Promptuarii iconum insigniorum, AD 1553 I've been looking for this coin for about a year (since April/May 2020) to...

Coins from Moesia Inferior don't make either edition of Harlan J. Berk's 100 Greatest Ancient Coins , maybe the next edition. There are...

Cowrie shells appear as items of value and ceremony in the far western inland of China during the Neolithic era. Use became widespread...

Researching ancient coins and the people behind them, my knowledge of ancient geography is regularly challenged. Today's post shares 4...

Heinrich Kiepert, Paphlagonia, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Paphlagonia was in northern Anatolia and was bordered by Bythnia to...

"If we set aside the language of Seleukid royal discourse, it is far from obvious how we should discriminate between legitimate kings and...

In the second major battle of the second Punic wars, the Carthaginian general, Hannibal, defeated the Romans on Lake Trasimene. Quintus...

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 Social Wars, 91-87 BC, that led to the Romanization of Italy. The son, with a similar coin, minted in 61 BC about 30 years later - the reported dates for the son's coin are varied - I prefer the dates of Hersh-Walker which use Mesagne hoard evidence to reorder some of the dates from Crawford. For more on the Charles Hersh and Alan Walker pub

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...