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the P.P. on the obverse which was added after Augustus accepted the title of "Pater Patriae" (issued 10 There is an irony that despite his defeat, many ancient rulers are descended from Mark Antony, including the-battle-of-actium/ Black basalt statue of the Ptolemaic period, height 105 cm, from Hermitage's Ancient

Second Edition, New Generation Publishing Peng, K (1995), New Research on the Origin of Cowries in Ancient

Here are two quotes before getting to ancient coins, both from the Federalist papers: In the Lycian confederacy Constitution took effect March 4, 1789, and September 25, 1789, 12 amendments were adopted and, eventually, 10

This concept is crucial for understanding the significance of land and foundation rituals in ancient Ancient authors link this rite to Rome’s foundation.

This coin is my latest RR denarius a story of family propaganda from ancient Rome in the run-up to and Public records note his death on 10 January 2025.

Recently I've been wandering from ancient into medieval coins and this one takes me far away from the Ancient coin collecting VI: Non-classical cultures . Krause Publications. Spengler, W. Ancient coins database: Artuqids . Retrieved May 24, 2025, from https://www.wildwinds.com/

A rare moment of poetic justice in ancient history. Ancient sources claim he had a wine cellar with 300 cisterns cut into the rock. Move to Democracy After Theron died in 472/1 BCE, ancient tradition described him as a comparatively Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations 14.

Fontana della Spinacorona, an ancient fountain in central Naples, located against a wall of the church specific cultic purposes; the Sirens need not be depicted with a full avian body, which is clear from many ancient Ref: HNItaly 589 As an interesting sequel to this story the ancient coin inspired a coin from Naples

The city extends along the hill under the actual summit, the ascent to it being very long and steep on Baldwin's described as: "a superb collection formed over the last 50-60 years, containing a small group of ancients Landscape Art "The first instance of a landscape type appearing on an extant ancient coin is on a denarius The reverse of the coin shows a temple on top of a mountain, identified by the inscription “ERVC”; it

the time Hadrian inherited the empire, Samosata—once the royal capital of Commagene—functioned as a top-ranking Monumental Coins, Buildings & Structures on Ancient Coinage by Marvin Tameanko: Although this description

Bassus’s coin is not  a literal Egyptian pyramid, but a stylized representation of Mount Argaeus  (Ancient Argaios. ” Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi / The Journal of International Social Research  10

On page 166 of “Ancient Greek Coins”, GK Jenkins writes: "the so-called ‘cistophoric’ coins of the cities Disdain for Cistophori existed in ancient times as well. A thyrsos is staff of giant fennel topped with a pine cone used in Dionysian rituals.