Ancient Coin Profile – Pompeia’s Pick: Gold Coin of the Great...
By Lorie Ann Hambly for Heritage Auctions ......
Pompeia's pick this time is a departure from our usual run of Greco-Roman coins: A gold double-dinar...
Ancient Coin Profile – The First Facing Portrait of a King
Ancient Coins - LYCIA. Dynasts of Lycia, Perikles (c.375-360 BCE), Silver Stater
Ancient Coin Profiles By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Lycia was...
Roman Coin Profile – Sestertius of Agrippina Senior
By Geoffrey Cope - Petitioncrown.com ........
“It was, in my eyes, the perfect coin” The Love of a remarkable ageless Sestertius of Agrippina Senior. Now...
Ancient Coin Profiles: The Indenpedent Bronze Coinage of Roman Termessos
By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....
High in the mountains of Pisidia in Anatolia, near the Mediterranean coast of what is now southwestern Turkey), lay...
Byzantine Coinage of the Empress Irene – CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
ATHENS IN THE eighth century was a provincial small town living on memories of past glories. But its aristocrats...
Possibly 2nd Known Ancient Roman Gold Aureus of Vespasian on MA-Shops
By CoinWeek ....
On MA-Shops.com, Dutch coin dealer Munthandel G. Henzen is currently offering what is possibly only the second known example of a rare...
Ancient Coin Profiles: Greece – Athenian New Style Tetradrachm
New Tetradrachm Overview:
The new style of Athenian "owl"--so-called due to the iconic image of Athena's owl on the reverse--originated in a Greece newly conquered...
The Daric: Persian Gold – CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
The Achaemenid Empire of Persia ruled much of the Middle East from 550 to 330 BCE. With a diversity...
Ancient Coin Profiles: Greece – Theban Silver Stater
Overview:
Thebes
Thebes was one of the major cities of ancient Greece, and for a brief time it was the preeminent power in the Greek world....
Ancient Coin Profile – Faustina the Elder Roman Imperial Gold Aureus
The Five Good Emperors and Antoninus Pius
From about the end of the first century (96 CE) to near the end of the second (180),...
Ancient Coins – Alexander the Great Tetradrachms and Herakles’ Slaying of...
MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander the Great Tetradrachms (336-323 BC). AR
Tetradrachms by Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
The early Macedonian kingdom did not have...
Coins of Herod the Great – CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
IN BIBLICAL HISTORY and popular legend, Herod "the Great", Rome’s client king of Judaea from 40 to 4 BCE,...
Ancient Coin Profiles – Portrait of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Macedonia, Philip II, struck under Philip III; Kolophon, c. 322 BCE, Stater
Alexander the Great by Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management,...
Ancient Roman Coins – Vespasian Aureus Buried at Pompeii
Vespasian. 69-79 CE. AV Aureus - Rome Mint - Struck 70 CE
Aureus Buried at Pompeii by Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
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Sibling Lovers: Four Royal Portraits on Popular Ancient Gold Coin from...
By CoinWeek ....
The Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt was ruled by a dynasty of Hellenistic Greeks from around to 305 BCE until the defeat of...
CoinWeek Video Coin Profile: The Carthaginian 1 1/2 Gold and Silver...
Atlas Numismatics and CoinWeek offer a look into the world of ancient Carthage with this video coin profile of the Carthaginian 1 1/2 Shekel...
Mike Markowitz: CoinWeek Coins of the Bible Video Series, Part IX:...
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series writer Mike Markowitz has long brought context and his unique insights into the fascinating world of ancient coins to contemporary collectors. In this...
Ancient Coin Profiles: Roman Gold Aureus of Julius Caesar
Overview:
Julius Caesar
The Roman general and dictator Julius Caesar is still famous 2,061 years after his death, though most people are probably more familiar with...
Ancient Coin Profiles: Byzantine Empire – Manuel I Aspron Trachy
Overview
In 1092 CE, the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus enacted sweeping coinage reforms. He stopped production of previous denominations and introduced five new ones:...
Ancient Greek Coins – Tetradrachm Celebrates Naval Victory by Doson
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Tetradrachm Celebrates Naval Victory by Doson
Antigonus III Doson was the king of Macedon from 229 to...
Ancient Coin Profile – Decimus Albinus: The “Other Brutus” Who Stabbed...
By Lorie Ann Hambly for Heritage Auctions ......
Decimus Postumus Albinus Brutus was at first a loyal adherent to the great dictator Julius Caesar. The...
Coin Profile – The Owl of Athena (circa 449–413 BCE) Silver...
Silver tetradrachm coin depicting the owl of Athena (circa 449–413 BCE). The inscription "ΑΘΕ" is an abbreviation of ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ, which may be translated as...
Ancient Greek Coins – The Tumultuous History of Kamarina
Ancient Greek Coins of Kamarina By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
The history of Kamarina, a port city on the southern coast...
The Byzantine Anonymous Follis – CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
IN THE ANCIENT world, gold and silver were the coinage of the elite, but humble copper was the coinage...
Ancient Coin Profile – Pompeia’s Pick: A Jewish War Shekel of...
By Lorie Ann Hambly for Heritage Auctions ......
One of the most important coins in this year's Platinum Night offering is also one of the...
Ancient Coin Profiles: Roman Imperial Silver Denarius – Caligula & Agrippina...
Overview:
Caligula long ago entered the popular imagination as an archetype of the sadistic and depraved Roman emperor. From a distance of almost 2,000 years,...
Ancient Coin Profiles: Roman Provincial – Antioch Tetradrachm of Augustus
Overview:
This tetradrachm (a silver four-drachmae coin), issued around the year 2 BCE, is from the Greco-Roman city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes in what is now southern...
Ancient Coins – A Celebration of Music with a Greek Kithara...
Olynthus, 355-352. Chalcidian league, 432-348. Tetradrachm, silver
Ancient Greek Kithara or "guitar" - the reverse depicts a kithara from which the word “guitar” is derived.
The...
Ancient Coin Profile – Pompeia’s Pick: The Wandering Emperor’s Wife
By Heritage Auctions .....
The Roman empress Vibia Sabina (83 CE – 136/137) was both the wife and second cousin, once removed, of Roman emperor Publius...
Ancient Coin Profiles: Silver Stater of Tarsus
Overview:
Tarsus
Tarsus was an ancient city located on the southern Mediterranean shore of Asia Minor in what is now modern Turkey. It was already ancient...