Palazzo Senatorio  (Senatorial Palace) with statues of Castor (left) and Pollux (right) at the top of architectural career, Vogt was an accomplished numismatist who assembled a distinguished collection of ancient

"Ancient democracies and federations of states" is a theme in ancient coins that attracts my interest Greece also showing Italy to the West and Türkiye to the East ( Google Maps ) Boeotia from a map of ancient Representative Government in the Ancient Polities . The Classical Journal , 14 (9), 533–549. A Companion to Ancient Greek Government , edited by Hans Beck, John Wiley & Sons, first published 2013

In the COVID-19 pandemic world, it is a bit too easy to imagine the plagues of ancient Rome. Plagues are often referenced in ancient literature and we can see calls to the gods for deliverance in ancient coins. Apollo - Fritz Graf (2009) Solving the Mystery of an Ancient Roman Plague , Kyle Harper, The Atlantic

This is a very rare Roman Provincial coin, with about 10 known, that refers to the administration of An Ancient Inscription Several epigraphic references to Kilikarchae are included in E.

Ancient and modern sources agree on the events of this war: preparations, campaigning, and a death remembered The Beniak Collection There is a little known about the recent history of this ancient coin, from oldest For ancient Egyptians, the heliacal rising of Sirius (Sopdet or Sothis) was not an abstract calendar "'Homonoia' in the Greek Cisties of the Roman Empire" Ancient Society 15/17 (1984): 229–52. Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization 14 (2010): 73–92. Meckler, Michael L.

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

Merker in ‘ The Ancient Kingdom of Paionia ,’ Balkan Studies 6 (1965), p. 44 ( download pdf ) In any [skip] The Ancient Paionians may of may not have been Greek, but they certainly became Greek-ish and In Ancient Historiography on War and Empire , Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 177-187. L. " The Ancient Kingdom of Paionia ." Balkan Studies , vol. 6, 1965, p. 44. ( download pdf ).  In A Companion to Ancient Thrace (eds J. Valeva, E. Nankov and D. Graninger).

ISSN 0021-8286), Vol. 36, Part 1, No. 122, p. 21 - 27 (2005) David Vagi, 2014, Eagles and dolphins on ancient CoinWorld Moesia Istrus Drachm , Money Museum Tyler Rossi, 2021, The Mystery of the Double-Headed Coins of Ancient

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

The Goddess Tellus This Mosaic gives a 3rd century view of Tellus, an ancient Roman goddess. -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 References: in addition to those referenced and linked above Guidaboni, E, (ed.), "Catalogue of ancient

Looking at the top of Tigranes head you can make our the outline of a face and perhaps a turreted crown Resources Jack Nurpetlian , " Ancient Armenian Coins: the Artaxiad Dynasty (189 BC - AD 6 ) " in Berytus

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