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Happiness of the Public
According to this US Inflation Calculator, which must be good because it was ranked highest by Google, if I purchased a coin in 1978 for...
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sulla80
- Mar 5, 2022
- 5 min
Boeotian Federal Coinage
Boeotia provides an early example of representative and federated democracy. "Ancient democracies and federations of states" is a theme...
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sulla80
- Mar 2, 2022
- 2 min
The Judgement of Paris
Some questions are best avoided. When faced with three beautiful coins, it seems that asking "Which is fairest?" is perhaps not a good...
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sulla80
- Feb 27, 2022
- 5 min
Antiochus IV "Egyptianizing"
The coin I initially used to illustrate this was pretty ugly, nearly unidentifiable. I have since replaced it with a much nicer coin:...
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sulla80
- Feb 24, 2022
- 3 min
Rome v. Parthia (AD 161-166)
I wrote an earlier post on Rome v. Parthia - in May 53 BC, when at Carrhae, Mesopotamia a member of the Sūrēn (Surena) family won a...
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sulla80
- Feb 19, 2022
- 5 min
Thracian Wine & Coins
A nice glass of red wine would go well with today's post. There is evidence of wine making in Thrace from 4300 BC. The coins of...
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sulla80
- Feb 12, 2022
- 6 min
United Tribes of Gaul
Eventually this post will reach two denarii that were issued to commemorate Julius Caesar's victories in the Gallic Wars with Celtic...
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sulla80
- Feb 5, 2022
- 6 min
Perfect, Rare or Beautiful?
This post starts with a few thoughts on the ingredients that make up an attractive ancient coin and will eventually get to a coin of...
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sulla80
- Jan 29, 2022
- 6 min
A Paeonian Tetradrachm
An event during Alexander the Great's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire is potentially depicted on the reverse of my coin today. However,...
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sulla80
- Jan 29, 2022
- 5 min
Nero Returns
The featured coin today is a tetradrachm of Nero from Antioch. It is dated by both the regnal Year of Nero (RY 8) and by a Caesarean Era...
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sulla80
- Jan 22, 2022
- 3 min
Trajan Aims for Parthia
At the end of the reign of Rabbel II, King of Nabatea (78-106 AD), in 106 AD, Trajan annexed his kingdom and created the Roman province...
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sulla80
- Jan 15, 2022
- 4 min
Lepidus as Moneyer
There is no better illustration of the cursus honorem, the political career ladder in the Roman republic, than a coin from a moneyer who...
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sulla80
- Jan 15, 2022
- 9 min
Lysimachos, Pergamon and Cistophori
I have been slowly adding Cistophoric tetradrachms from various cities in Asia minor, and today was looking back at one of my first posts...
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sulla80
- Jan 1, 2022
- 5 min
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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