Ancient Coins

The Last King of Macedon Before Rome Crushed His Kingdom Original By Tyler Rossi - Updated by CoinWeek Perseus of Macedon ruled at the edge of...

  By Mike Markowitz Most ancient people lived close to hunger. One bad harvest could bring starvation. Therefore, food supply mattered to every ruler, city, and...

Kings of Cappadocia PART I - PART II A mountain kingdom, a murdered dynasty, and a courtesan’s son. Silver coins that recorded Cappadocia’s fall into Rome’s orbit. This...

The Colosseo Collection Ancient Greek Coins - By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC Opus stood as a small, infertile territory on the coast of...

Is Thisby Mike Markowitz Ancient Greeks loved wrestling . Cities celebrated champion wrestlers as hometown heroes. They raised statues in their honor. Even today, modern...

By Mike Markowitz “Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same…” —...

By Mike Markowitz Chickens on Coins, the Bird That Changed the Ancient World Chickens may seem ordinary today. However, in antiquity, they carried deep meaning. Modern chickens...

Oinoanda Didrachms by Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ...... Introduction to Oinoanda and Its Coinage Oinoanda stood high in the mountains of ancient Lycia,...

By Mike Markowitz The medieval coinage of Georgia reflects a remarkable intersection of cultures, empires, and religious traditions. Located in the Caucasus region between Europe...

By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC Updated and reformatted March 2026 Electrum Coins : Mytilene’s Archaic Lion and Cockerel Hekte Mytilene: Power and Wealth in...

By Steve Benner A Forgotten Frontier of Magna Graecia Ancient Apulia lay along the eastern Adriatic coast of the Italian peninsula, just north of the “heel”...

By Andrew Caldarone - Aegean Numismatics Use of countermarks on ancient coins As with modern coins, countermarks were sometimes applied to ancient coins. An ancient Greek city...