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

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

-Herodian, History of the Empire, II.6.7 The Ancient Coin This coin added to my collection of Roman Egyptian

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

Perhaps by Aqā Rizā Haravi, c.1605-10, in the British Museum .

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

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

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

Moreover, there was an ancient tradition that the Antonii were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton

Pietro da Eboli : "Alas, how many perjuries he committed on that day when the unlucky count was anointed Behold the ancient monster, nature’s crime, an abortion; behold an ape is crowned, a base man!"

bands Rev: Sphinx seated to right; T•CARISIVS above, III•VIR in exergue Ref: Crawford 464/1; Carisia 10