Ancient Coins: What About Spartan Coins ?
Spartans disdained many things that other ancient Greeks valued. One of these things was money, even coins.
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The Last Coins of the Roman Empire
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The Roman Empire began on January 16, 27 BCE when the Roman Senate conferred the titles Augustus and...
Ancient Roman Coins: The Many Faces of Nero
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Born on December 15 in the year 37 CE, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was not necessarily destined for greatness. He...
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Coins, Aliens and UFOs
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On the wall of his office in the FBI building’s basement, Special Agent Fox Mulder of the TV series...
Being Wise About Owls: The Athenian Owl Tetradrachm
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A version of this article originally appeared in the VNA Magazine
A large increase in the supply of any collectible is...
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Coins of Julius Caesar
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Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he is grown so great?
--Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene...
What Are Widow’s Mite Coins?
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In the New Testament Gospels of Luke and Mark is one of the most famous passages of The Bible that...
Ancient Coins – The Wealth of the Persian Empire
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Thanks to intelligent political leadership and forward-thinking approaches to governing,...
World Records – The Most Expensive Roman Gold Coin Ever Sold at Public Auction
As one of the largest surviving Roman gold medallions, this piece is one of only two known.
circa 308 CE Eight-Aureus Gold Medallion
On April 5,...
The Crondall Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Gold Coins
By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek .....
The Anglo-Saxons began striking coins in what was to become England around 600 CE. These early coins consisted...
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Coinage of the Guptas
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IN INDIA'S LONG history, the Gupta Empire (c. 319 – 550 CE) is remembered as a golden age of...
Ancient Coins: Lydian Gold Considered First Coins in the World
Lydian coinage is considered among the very first coins ever produced and used
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The...
The Coinage of Aksum
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FIVE DAYS MARCH inland from the Red Sea, on the hilly Tigray Plateau, stands the city of...
The Star and Crescent on Ancient Coins
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OUR MOON IS solid, not transparent. So it is impossible for a star to appear between the...
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Coinage of the Mongols
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
The couriers of the Khan galloped over fifty degrees of longitude, and it was said that a virgin carrying...
Weapons on Ancient Coins
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ANCIENT GREEK ARMIES fought mainly with the spear. Roman legions fought mostly with the sword. Persians fought...
Ancient Greek Coins – Philip II the King of Macedonia
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The Colosseo Collection
Philip II was the father of Alexander the Great and the...
Small Change: The Tiniest Ancient Coins
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“Parva Ne Pereant”
IN 2014, THE British Royal Mint issued a gold proof 50p coin only eight mm...
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Coins of the Vikings
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ON JUNE 8, 793, A BAND of Norse raiders sacked Lindisfarne, a monastery on the...
Bad Money – Ancient Counterfeiters and Their Fake Coins
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Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
"The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived."
-- attributed to...
Reading Ancient Greek Coins
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
Perhaps one reason for the comparatively small interest in Greek coins in the country is the difficulty of understanding...
Coinage of the First Caliphate
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BY THE BEGINNING of the seventh century CE, the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean had been ravaged...
Magnificent Syracuse Decadrachm Tops Heritage World & Ancient Coin Platinum Night Auction
SICILY. Syracuse. Time of Dionysius I (405-367 BC). AR decadrachm (33mm, 43.30 gm, 6h). Struck ca. 400-390 BC. Unsigned dies in the style of...
NGC Ancients: Roman Coinage of Emperor Nero
The coinage of Nero spans his reigns as Caesar and emperor
Nero is among the best-known of all Roman emperors – but not for good...
The Image of Jesus on Ancient Coins
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As with politicians, nothing is more important to gods than image ... Perhaps this is the secret...
Eroticism on Ancient Coins (Adults Only)
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THROUGH A LONG chain of pious frauds and medieval myth-making, the February 14 feast day of St....
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Charon’s Obol Coins for the Dead
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My advice for those who die,
Declare the pennies on your eyes
-- The Beatles, “Taxman”, Revolver (1966)
IN THE...
Coins of The Anglo-Saxons
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Britain After the Romans
IN THE YEAR 410 CE, the Western Roman Emperor Honorius replied to the city...
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series – Elephants on Ancient Coinage
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STRONG, INTELLIGENT AND long-lived - yet surprisingly gentle - elephants have long exerted a powerful hold over...
The Ancient Coins of Phanes
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The first coins to be struck appeared c. 650 BCE in what is now western Turkey. These coins...