Ancient Gold Coins : The First Circulating Gold Coinage and...
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
The Colosseo Collection
The First Circulating Coinage
Little is known about this mysterious archaic electrum coinage - the...
Ancient Coins: The Beginning of Coinage
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC
The Colosseo Collection .........
The Beginning of Coinage
Shown with expressive and diverse imagery today, ancient coins started from...
Ancient Greek Coins – The Tumultuous History of Kamarina
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The history of Kamarina, a port city on the southern coast of Sicily, is among...
Ancient Coins – Coinage of the Ancient Olympics
Ancient Olympics - Elis, Olympia, 87th-90th Olympiad, 432-420 BC. AR Stater
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The Colosseo Collection ......
One of...
Ancient Roman Gold Coins – Faustina, Wife of Marcus Aurelius
Ancinet Roman Gold Coin - Aureus of Faustina Junior, wife of Marcus Aurelius
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Annia Galeria Faustina was...
CoinWeek: Cool Coins! 2018 Episode 1: Amazing Mint Errors, Shipwreck Gold...
CoinWeek Cool Coins! returns with this first episode for 2018.We are excited to share with you a new crop of cool stories about some...
Ancient Coins – A Celebration of Music with a Greek “Guitar”
Olynthus, 355-352. Chalcidian league, 432-348. Tetradrachm, silver
Ancient Greek "guitar" - the reverse depicts a kithara from which the word “guitar” is derived.
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Ancient Greek Coin Design Features – Front Facing Portraiture
Greek Coins - An apparently unique variety (the only specimen known with this magistrate name) of an extremely rare type.
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The First Ancient Coins – Aegina’s Sea Turtle
Ancient Coins - ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 550-530/25 BC. AR Stater. Sea turtle
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Aegina is a...
Ancient Roman Coin – The Loyalty of Sextus Pompey
Roman Coin - Sextus Pompey; 42-40 BCE, Denarius
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The title used on this Roman coin, praefectus classis...
Ancient Roman Coins – Octavian and the Battle of Actium
Octavian. Gold Aureus (7.8g) minted at Rome, 32-31 BC
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Octavian was the son of Julius Caesar's niece...
Ancient Roman Coins – Rome at Its Finest Under Emperor...
138-161 AD. Aureus, 7.30g (6h). Rome, 140-4 AD
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Antoninus Pius is remembered by history as a kind,...
When It Comes to Ancient Coins, How Old Is Old Enough...
By Wayne Sayles – Ancient Coins Collecting Blog ......
The classification of cultures generally tracks along two interrelated lines: chronological and geographical. For centuries, collectors...
Ancient Roman Coins – Military Strength in Rome’s Golden Age
Ancient Roman Coins - HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. Aureus Struck 124-128 AD.
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Hadrian was the third of...
AU Capital Management: The Baldwin $10 Cowboy Gold Coin
AU Capital Management President Russ Augustin teams up with CoinWeek to tell the behind-the-scenes stories of the great gold coins of American history.
In this...
Ancient Gold Coin Profiles – Civic Badge of Cyzicus
Ancient Gold Coin - Mysia, Cyzicus. Hekte circa 500-450
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Cyzicus was one of the great trade...
Roman Coins – The Tribute Penny – Render unto Caesar what...
Tribute Penny - Tiberius (14-37 CE). AV aureus ). Lugdunum, ca. 18-35 CE.
The same type was also issued in silver, which became known as...
Ancient Greek Coins – New Style Athens Tetradrachm
Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm. New Style Coinage, circa 154-153 BC
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Athens was once immensely powerful and independent,...
Ancient Greek Coins – The Enigma of the Oinoanda Didrachms
Oinoanda Didrachms were an unusual denomination
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Oinoanda, an ancient Greek city located in the upper valley of...
Ancient Greek Coins – Tetradrachm Celebrates Naval Victory by Doson
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Tetradrachm Celebrates Naval Victory by Doson
Antigonus III Doson was the king of Macedon from 229 to...
The Coinage of Aksum
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Where the south declines towards the setting sun lies the country called Ethiopia, the last inhabited land...
Ancient Coin Profiles – Portrait of Alexander the Great
Macedonia, Philip II, struck under Philip III; Kolophon, c. 322 BC, Stater
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With no mass media, ancient...
Ancient Coins – Alexander the Great Tetradrachms and Herakles’ Slaying of...
MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander the Great Tetradrachms (336-323 BC). AR
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The early Macedonian kingdom did not have sufficient...
Ancient Roman Coins – Vespasian Aureus Buried at Pompeii
Vespasian. 69-79 CE. AV Aureus - Rome Mint - Struck 70 CE
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Mt. Vesuvius began erupting...
Ancient Greek Coins – Agathokles’ Victory
Sicily, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. Silver Tetradrachm
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Agathokles was the last of the larger-than-life rulers of Syracuse,...
Ancient Coins – A Soldier’s Share of Alexander the Great’s Plunder
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Alexander the Great, born in the autumn of 356 BCE and taught by the famous Aristotle,...
Ancient Roman Coins – A Conspiracy to Assassinate the Emperor Nero
Aureus 64-65, AV 7.27 g. NERO CAESAR – AVGVSTVS
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The name Nero holds a particularly sinister...
Ancient Greek Coins – Zeus at Olympia
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
As the Olympics became progressively more popular, the city of Elis sought to build a new,...
AER Acquires Virtually Flawless $20 High Relief Saint-Gaudens Gold
In March 2017, the American Eagle Reserve acquired the unparalleled 1907 $20 High Relief Saint-Gaudens Wire-Rim certified by PCGS Mint State-69, further endorsed by...
Ancient Coins: War and Peace – The Sikyon Stater
Sikyon was located in the northern Peloponnesus and was known in antiquity for its industries, including sculpture, bronze work, and pottery. Its central location...