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So what does this all have to do with ancient coin?

This coin is a good example of the challenges in deciding what to pay or how to price an ancient coin There would have been a financial incentive to double the value of a worn sestertius with a fresh strike

Venus holds an apple on these ancient coins, a reference to the myth of the golden apple that started

The History of Ancient Iran . 1984. Shahbazi, A. Shapur. Ardashir I . Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1986.

populace by cheapened grain, the world by the amenities of peace, then step by step began to make his ascent L'AN / 8 / A, date and denomination within wreath The pileus was the cap worn by emancipated slaves in ancient

Milstein in Israel Numismatic Journal, vol. 10 (1991)."

The subject matter of ancient coins was used for promoting the moneyer and the moneyer's family to support arrival from Troy see this related post (and another coin featuring the Dei Penates): New Beginnings & Ancient

Stuckey, A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East  (n.p.: Open Source, 2023).

Ancient coins don't all come in MS-70 (perfect mint state, with no flaws, scratches, or wear visible

-Cicero, in a speech given upon his return from exile in 57 BCE, paragraph 10 Although Publius Lentulus

Some of the most used reference books for ancient coins are not new.

the Argives to cower and fawn upon the wolf-leader of Galadra, and to hand over the sceptre of the ancient