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New Beginnings & Ancient Symbols
It is a new year, 2022! Appropriately, today's post opens with new beginnings and Aeneas arriving from Troy to the shores of Italy and...
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sulla80
- Dec 31, 2021
- 5 min
Coins to Rebuild Apameia
After wandering a bit into medieval Islamic coins and the Mongol khans of the 13th and 14th century, I inevitably return to 1st century...
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sulla80
- Dec 24, 2021
- 6 min
Parthian Invasion, 40 BC
The Parthians are mostly known from the writings of their Greek and Roman enemies - not the writers you would trust to document...
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sulla80
- Dec 18, 2021
- 5 min
Children of Tamerlane
Gur-e-Amir - a mausoleum of the Asian conqueror Timur (also known as Tamerlane) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (Copyright: under license from...
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sulla80
- Dec 18, 2021
- 6 min
Coins of the Silk Road
Today's post shares more coins than usual. All of these coins are linked to the Mongol khans. Perhaps the best known Mongol leader is...
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sulla80
- Dec 12, 2021
- 3 min
The Galvano Boys
Buying ancient coins can be particularly challenging for those just starting out. This can be especially true on EBay as a place where...
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sulla80
- Dec 5, 2021
- 5 min
A Chemistry Experiment
Public Domain Image published by Chez le citoyen Mirys in Paris, 1799 This coin interested me for several reasons : the link to the time...
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sulla80
- Dec 4, 2021
- 3 min
The Chariot of Victory
Public Domain Image, etching "Aurora" by Guido Reni 1886 In 1637, Francescus Junius published "De Pictvra Vetervm Libri Tres" (Of Ancient...
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sulla80
- Nov 24, 2021
- 2 min
Low Cost LRBs
While one can spend thousands of dollars on a popular, beautiful ancient coin, you can also get an interesting coin for under $5. LRB is...
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sulla80
- Nov 20, 2021
- 6 min
Top 10 for 2021
Next week is Thanksgiving, and I am looking forward to the family gathering and a return to Thanksgiving traditions that we missed last...
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sulla80
- Nov 7, 2021
- 2 min
Ancient artwork
This week I am adding an extra "Note" commemorating 3 years of "Notes on Ancient Coins" and post number 160. The photos celebrate the...
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sulla80
- Nov 5, 2021
- 5 min
The Right of Appeal
"Paul replied, “I am standing before the judgment seat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as...
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sulla80
- Oct 30, 2021
- 7 min
Rats in Rome
“There are many rats depicted on ancient coins, this one has an actual rat.” - Frank Robinson, ancient coin dealer, in one of his online...
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sulla80
- Oct 23, 2021
- 5 min
Dirhams, Sultans, Crusaders and the Pope
Today's post wanders into the middle ages during a time of the crusades. The crusades were a series of wars between Christians and...
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sulla80
- Oct 17, 2021
- 3 min
First, Greatest and Most Beautiful
"The site of the Cilician city known during the period of the Roman Empire as Caesarea, Caesarea by Anazarbus, or Anazarbus , is some 28...
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sulla80
- Oct 9, 2021
- 4 min
Deliverance from Disease
In the COVID-19 pandemic world, it is a bit too easy to imagine the plagues of ancient Rome. Plagues are often referenced in ancient...
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sulla80
- Oct 2, 2021
- 3 min
Tiberius' Cucumbers
Wandering again from Sulla, and the Roman republic, I stumbled on a debate amongst botanists about Tiberius' favorite food. The ancient...
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sulla80
- Sep 25, 2021
- 3 min
Caesar's Dream
J. M. W. Turner, Dido Building Carthage, oil on canvas, 1815, Public Domain image. It seems clear that Augustus was good at marketing:...
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sulla80
- Sep 18, 2021
- 5 min
Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor
The coins of interest today are not Roman republican. They are from a time period that that has interested me from my first coin: a worn...
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sulla80
- Sep 12, 2021
- 7 min
Goats, Beans and Biscotti
‘With these beans I throw I redeem me and mine.’ -Ovid, Fasti Book V, Lemuria Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz by Thomé,...
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