My collecting focus has been the Roman Republic and especially the time period around the career of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix . I have...

Technology over the ages in health and social media illustrated with Roman Republican coins. Roma: Tempio della Concordia al Foro Romano [Temple of Concord in the Roman Forum], Rome, Gelatin silver print, image public domain from the National Gallery of Scotland I am starting my blog with a post on a Roman Republican coin that I purchased a few years ago. So much of what could be found in ancient Rome has carried forward to the today from Roman roads to social media. Social m

While you can spend thousands of dollars on a highly prized ancient coin, you can also get an interesting coin for under $5. This coin...

The Humiliation of Valerian by Shapur I, French 15th Century, Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program When I first...

This Italian "medalet", 20mm, 11h, 3.7g, by an unknown artist is from the 18th to early 19th century, apparently issued for the Grand...

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...

Why were these ancient imitations minted in such quantities? While the most sought after coins can reach astronomical prices, there is no...

I often ask for provenance for the coins that I have purchased. Only rarely do I get anything and then it is something like from "a...

The Coin The Bosporan Kingdom occupied both shores of the Kerch Strait, in the eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula. It ran as a client kingdom of Rome for roughly four centuries, and its coinage records that relationship in two ways: Roman emperors appear on the reverses, and the kings' own titles advertise their loyalty. Modern catalogues call this piece a sestertius, borrowing the Roman name for a large bronze. It is lighter than the sestertii struck at Rome in the same