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Its production of high-denomination 10 wén coins during the Xianfeng period was part of a Qing-wide emergency China, copper 10 wen, Qing, Xian-feng, 1851-1861 , Tong Bao, Aqsu, DH28.23 rarity level [8] Obv: 咸豐通寶 :  (mint) Aqsu - Manchu ᠠᡴᠰᡠ aqsu (left) / Uighur اقسو aqsu (Turkic - right),, 當 十 Dang Shi (value 10 ) in Chinese - top and bottom Ref:  DH 28.23 (Qing Cash); Zeno 308378 The Taiping Rebellion The Taiping

One ancient sewer from the Sumarian city Eshnunna in central Mesopotamia, consisted of brick sewers connected In 2020 there was evidence unearthed of more than 4000 year old sewers in ancient China in the Ancient The sewer was an important contribution to public health in ancient Rome and an impressive feat of ancient are still visible and even somewhat functional in Rome today: Outlet of the Cloaca Maxima, Life in Ancient Samuel Ball Platner (as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby): A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient

There are is one example in the SixBid Collector's Archive (25-Jun-2021 Zöttl E-Auktion 4 Lot 10). Numiswiki at FORVM Ancient Coins lists a few references for the coins of "Gallia" which are mostly not N. , xxvi. p. 238 )." - Numiswiki at FORVM Ancient Coins Here's a Victoriatus from some time after 218 Western Europe" - RJ King et al.(2011) The coming of the Greeks to Provence and Corsica Cambridge Ancient Wikipedia Massalia Wikimonde Marseille antique Bibliography for Gallic coins at Forums Ancient Coins

Saxx of a Lascaux cave painting, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons My latest ancient coin has a beautiful The book covers many aspects of the relationship between cattle and the ancient Greeks: “The accumulation The book is rich with facts and stories about cattle in ancient Greece and also draws an arc from Greek I will make up for the lack of images in the book with my own ancient coins depicting cattle, starting This Neapolitan bull is meant to represent Achelöos, the water god of ancient Greece.

Generally Claudius is portrayed as weak by the ancient historians.  -Suetonius, Life of Claudius 10.1 Four ancient quotes on Claudius' rule - with Josephus as the outlier Here is another Alexandrian Tetradrachm from the 10th year of Nero's reign (RY 10 = AD 63/4). with the

tethrippon (a four horse chariot race) , Foals tethrippon (a four horse chariot race with foals) , 10 Blackwell companions to the ancient world, WILEY-BLACKWELL, Chichester. Penn Museum Excavations at Nemea (note: games were not held at Argos during Nero's time) KU Leuven, Ancient Olympics Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources , Stephen Miller, pp. 162-164 Smithsonian Magazine

An arca ferrata with three money bags sitting on top, can be seen on this beautiful coin with excellent from Sessions 2–3 , Single Contributions, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2022 (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient

This survey of medical implements in ancient Greece & Rome – helps to illustrate the torment that medicine The remains of Philip II are housed in an 11kg gold larnax (coffin box) with a sun on the top - for

The calendar of the Roman Republic fell short more than 10 days each year which meant that the seasons For not only in very ancient times was the relation of the lunar to the solar year in great confusion However, the calendar was running fast by 11 min and 14 seconds a year, which by AD 1582 had become 10 ending in 00 only if they are divisible by 400 (eliminating 3 leap years every 400 years) – he also took 10

The Goddess Tellus This Mosaic gives a 3rd century view of Tellus, an ancient Roman goddess. Warren Esty has an excellent educational website with 6 pages of coins in the broad category of: " Ancient -Carole Raddato, Following Hadrian One ancient source is Cassius Dio: While the emperor was tarrying The following comment comes to mind as we try to imagine how an ancient Roman would see the figure of "So much depends on who is looking, from ancient master or ancient slave to eighteenth-century connoisseur

While one can spend thousands of dollars on a popular, beautiful ancient coin, you can also get an interesting At 2.9g is a favorite of mine for because of it's detail carved by an ancient engraver, the strike and

So why not ancient coins – after all they have aesthetic value, they have some intrinsic value, they Both obverse and reverse looking fairly good style to me (it’s a few hundred years outside of my ancient generous, scholarly, and systematic, who focused on the coins of Mexico but apparently also had some nice ancients I can hope that the next 44 years will be different - as interest in ancients grows and supply declines