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

This is a Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachm of Caracalla, from Sidon with Europa on the reverse. Sidon is named for King Sidon son of Canaan,...

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 as bit of bit of exploration of the cursus honorem, the ladder of a political career in ancient Rome. It also added...

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...

Dionysos leading the Horae (Seasons), marble, Roman 1st century AD (image public domain) My coin of interest today is a tetradrachm of...

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...

The Cappadocians didn't mint a lot of tetradrachms. My coin today was identified by the seller as one of a series of issues with control...

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

Modern coin collectors have the option to seek perfection. This doesn't even require deep pockets. "NGC defines a Mint State or Proof 70...

This coin honors a relative of the moneyer who was responsible for voting reforms. 63 BC was an eventful year with many familiar names:...

The central figures in Raphael's fresco, "The School of Athens" are Plato and Aristotle. With gestures that reflect their body of work,...

My coin for today is an unusual tetradrachm of Parthia, from a few years after the end of the Roman republic and the beginning of the...

Elephants must have looked like mythical monsters to the Romans when they first encountered them in battles against King Pyrrhus of...

With an Antoninianus of Probus with Salus reverse I have completed a set of 6 coins with a hidden message. I first learned of this...

Here are a few North African coins from Caesar's Civil War. Even in 68/9 BC, Julius Caesar, circa 31 years old, did not have any doubt...