Ancient Coins – The Sacred Stone of Kaunos Coinage
Kaunos Coinage By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
The Colosseo Collection ......
Kaunos was a prominent trading center in Asia Minor alongside Lycia and...
Ancient Gold Coins : The First Circulating Gold Coinage and the Stag of...
Ancient Gold Coins by Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
From the The Colosseo Collection
The First Circulating Coinage
Little is known about this mysterious...
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 ......
Mt....
Ancient Coins – The Most Famous Coin of Antiquity – the Athenian Owl
The Athenian Owl by Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
The Colosseo Collection ......
Athens was a great military power in ancient Greece and...
Ancient Coins: The Beginning of Coinage
Ancient Coins By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
The Colosseo Ancient Coins Collection .........
The Beginning of Coinage
Shown with expressive and diverse imagery...
Ancient Roman Coins – The Loyalty of Sextus Pompey
Roman Coin - Sextus Pompey; 42-40 BCE, Denarius
By Russell A. Augustin - AU Capital Management, LLC ......
The title used on this Roman coin, praefectus...
A Guide to Ancient Coin Collecting
Ancient Coin Collecting by Joe Jaroch - Posted with Permission by AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Amassing a collection of ancient coins can seem like...
Ancient Roman Coins – Victory Over Parthia and the Lost Roman Standards
Parthia and the Lost Roman Standards by Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
While fighting the Battle of Philippi, Octavian vowed to avenge...
Ancient Coins – The Invention and Importance of Striated Coins
Striated Ancient Coins by Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Shown with expressive and diverse imagery today, coinage started from very humble beginnings....
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...
Ancient Roman Gold Coin – Faustina, Wife of Marcus Aurelius
Ancinet Roman Gold Coin - Aureus of Faustina Junior, wife of Marcus Aurelius
Roman Gold Coin By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Annia...
Ancient Coins – Coinage of the Ancient Olympics
Ancient Olympics - Elis, Olympia, 87th-90th Olympiad, 432-420 BCE. AR Stater
Coins of the Ancient Olympics by Russell A. Augustin - AU Capital Management,...
Ancient Coins – A Celebration of Music With a Greek Kithara or “Guitar”
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 Greek Coin Design Features – Front Facing Portraiture
Greek Coin - An apparently unique variety (the only specimen known with this magistrate name) of an extremely rare type.
Greek Coin with Front Facing...
Ancient Roman Coins – Military Strength in Rome’s Golden Age
Ancient Roman Coins - HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. Aureus Struck 124-128 AD.
Ancient Roman Coins by Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Hadrian was the...
Ancient Roman Coins – Octavian and the Battle of Actium
Octavian. Gold Aureus (7.8g) minted at Rome, 32-31 BC
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Octavian was the son of Julius Caesar's niece...
Ancient Roman Coins – The Tribute Penny – Render Unto Caesar What Is Caesar’s
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 Gold Coin Profiles – Civic Badge of Cyzicus
Ancient Gold Coin - Mysia, Cyzicus. Hekte circa 500-450
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Cyzicus was one of the great trade cities...
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...
The First Ancient Coins – Aegina’s Sea Turtle
Ancient Coins - ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 550-530/25 BCE. AR Stater. Sea turtle
Ancient Coins Profiles by Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC...
Ancient Greek Coins – New Style Athens Tetradrachm
Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm. New Style Coinage, circa 154-153 BC
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Athens was once immensely powerful and independent,...
Ancient Roman Coins – Rome at Its Finest Under Emperor Antoninus Pius
138-161 AD. Aureus, 7.30g (6h). Rome, 140-4 CE
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Antoninus Pius is remembered by history as a kind,...
Ancient Greek Coins – The Enigma of the Oinoanda Didrachms
Oinoanda Didrachms were an unusual denomination
Oinoanda Didrachms By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Oinoanda, an ancient Greek city located in the upper...
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 Coins – Alexander the Great Tetradrachms and Herakles’ Slaying of the Nemean Lion
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...
Ancient Greek Coins – Agathokles’ Victory
Sicily, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BCE. Silver Tetradrachm
By Russell A. Augustin - AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Agathokles was the last of the larger-than-life rulers of...
Ancient Coins – A Soldier’s Share of Alexander the Great’s Plunder
Ancient Coins by Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Alexander the Great, born in the autumn of 356 BCE and taught by the...
Ancient Roman Coins – A Conspiracy to Assassinate the Emperor Nero
Aureus 64-65, AV 7.27 g. NERO CAESAR – AVGVSTVS
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
The name Nero holds a particularly sinister connotation...
Ancient Coins: War and Peace – The Sikyon Stater
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
Sikyon was located in the northern Peloponnesus and was known in antiquity for its industries, including...
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,...