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Crowd Pleasing Ancients
In response to several requests, today's post provides an entry point to other notes on this site. There are many coins that a collector...
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sulla80
- Sep 4, 2021
- 3 min
Small Packages (revisited)
This coin weighs in at 0.49g, about half weight of the last small coin that I posted and about the same weight as this Litra from...
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sulla80
- Aug 29, 2021
- 6 min
Grain and Civil Unrest in the Republic
In his introduction to “The Roman Republic”, Michael Crawford writes: “Some parts of the story may perhaps seem unduly dramatic; I can...
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sulla80
- Aug 22, 2021
- 2 min
Small Packages
In an post not long ago, I shared a Litra from Akragas. This is another entry under the heading of "good things come in small packages"....
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sulla80
- Aug 20, 2021
- 6 min
Coins of the Second Triumvirate
Lex Titia, passed by the senate on November, 27 43 BCE, formed the "2nd Triumvirate", and granted broad authority to Mark Antony, Lepidus...
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sulla80
- Aug 14, 2021
- 5 min
Alexander the Great in Asia
The newest addition to my collection is tied to Alexander the Great at a turbulent time near the end of his life. As Alexander proposed...
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sulla80
- Aug 8, 2021
- 8 min
"Sullan Era" Tetradrachms
This note will start with a drachm from Cappadocia, a key point of conflict between the Roman republic and the Kingdom of Pontus. There...
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sulla80
- Aug 4, 2021
- 3 min
Mysterious AE from 1st Century BCE
My coin of interest today is a mysterious AE from the late first century with no shortage of competing views on whose portrait appears on...
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sulla80
- Aug 1, 2021
- 4 min
Cato the Younger
The history of the Roman Republic has no shortage of dramatic figures and events, and yet the story of Cato the Younger (Cato Minor)...
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sulla80
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4 min
Heraclius & a Sicilian Countermark
Although countermarked Byzantine coins are not usually something I seek out, I couldn't resist this one. It was described in the auction...
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sulla80
- Jul 27, 2021
- 4 min
Son of Caracalla
Ann Johnson writes about the challenges of differentiating provincial coinage of Caracalla and Elagabalus: Johnston, A. (1982). Caracalla...
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sulla80
- Jul 25, 2021
- 3 min
Sulla's Uncle or Grandfather
My denarius of interest today was issued by a relative of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. The relationship between this moneyer and the dictator,...
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sulla80
- Jul 18, 2021
- 4 min
Galatians in Egypt
The struggle for power was intense in the years after the death of Alexander III the Great, as the diadochi, his generals and successors,...
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sulla80
- Jul 14, 2021
- 3 min
A Litra from Akragas
"Good things come in small packages" - this is certainly the thought I have today with this 0.56 gram coin. Although unusual for Greek...
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sulla80
- Jul 10, 2021
- 2 min
Tisna River God
My coin of interest today comes from Asia minor, the west coast of modern Turkey, just south of Pergamon and east of Kyme. This coin has...
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sulla80
- Jul 4, 2021
- 2 min
Constantine vs. Licinius at Adrianople
When my focus shifted to the Roman republic, I sold most of my late roman bronzes. I kept a few that I particularly liked. My coins of...
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sulla80
- Jun 27, 2021
- 5 min
An Emerging Story
I have been accumulating some interesting, and good looking coins from Asia, roughly areas today that are Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan....
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sulla80
- Jun 26, 2021
- 3 min
Where to start and end?
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...
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sulla80
- Jun 19, 2021
- 4 min
The Last Severan Emperor
Severus Alexander was the last Severan emperor. He ruled from AD 222-235, at age 13 succeeding his first cousin Elagabalus. Julia Maesa,...
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sulla80
- Jun 11, 2021
- 3 min
Gallienus Regnal Year 8
Image source: Promptuarii iconum insigniorum, AD 1553 I've been looking for this coin for about a year (since April/May 2020) to...
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