Weapons on Ancient Coins
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....
ANCIENT GREEK ARMIES fought mainly with the spear. Roman legions fought mostly with the sword. Persians fought...
The Coinage of Aksum
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....
FIVE DAYS MARCH inland from the Red Sea, on the hilly Tigray Plateau, stands the city of...
Ancient Coins: Lydian Gold Considered First Coins in the World
Lydian coinage is considered among the very first coins ever produced and used
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
The Colosseo Collection ......
The...
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series – Elephants on Ancient Coinage
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....
STRONG, INTELLIGENT AND long-lived - yet surprisingly gentle - elephants have long exerted a powerful hold over...
Ancient Coins and (Modern) Object Biographies
By Nathan Elkins for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ......
One way to study numismatic objects is through the lens of the anthropological/archaeological concept of object...
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...
Antiochus IV in Illinois
By Oliver Hoover for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ......
Everyone loves to find coins in unexpected places. There's a certain thrill that comes from discovering...
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 – 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...
Carl Subak – A Century of Roman Coin Collecting
By Susan Subak .....
While coins and the hobby itself are often passed down through the generations, few people can claim almost a century of...
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,...
Graven Images and the Coins of Ancient Tyre
By David Hendin for CoinWeek .....
Silver shekels and half-shekels of Tyre were used by Jews in ancient Jerusalem to pay the annual Temple tribute...
Prices and Coins in the Ancient World
By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....
When I was a kid, I walked to school both ways! When I was younger, movie tickets were only...
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Sestertius
By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....
After the denarius, the sestertius is the second most commonly recognized coin of the Roman Empire (27 BCE -...
Dating the Ancient Shekels of Tyre
By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....
Much has been written by eminent numismatists and religious scholars on the biblical significance of the shekels of Tyre....
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: The Last Ancient Coin
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
"What was the last ancient coin?"
The question is unanswerable. There was no "last” ancient coin, just as there...
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...
The Influence of Historic and Ancient Coin Designs
By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....
History is a continuum and time moves linearly. Generally, as time progresses, artistic and cultural trends evolve and build...
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Travels With Hadrian
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
IN THE ANCIENT world, travel was hazardous and uncomfortable, even for the elite.
Yet remarkably, the Roman emperor Hadrian spent...
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...
Changes in Portraiture on Ancient Roman Coinage
By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....
Over the roughly one thousand years that followed the overthrew of the last king in 509 BCE, Rome underwent...
“Top Ten” Ancient Coins of 1974 Revisited
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
The magazine Numismatic Scrapbook was published from 1935 to 1976 at Chicago by printer and collector Lee Hewitt (1911-1987)....
The Ancient Greek Coins of Paeonia
By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....
I consider myself well-read in ancient Greek history, but I have to admit that I wasn’t very familiar with...
The Mystery of the Double-Headed Coins of Ancient Istros
By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....
Istros, also known as Histria, was an ancient Greek colony located on the western Dobrudja coast of the Black...
Ancient Coins of the Kingdom of Sophene
By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....
The Kingdom of Sophene is another one of those ancient countries that has not received very much attention from...
The Dekadrachm – Athens’ Greatest Coin
By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek .....
The coins of Athens are among the most popular and best known of all ancient coins – virtually...
The Changing Iconography of Byzantine Gold Coins
By Elena Stolyarik for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ......
The Byzantine Empire, which lasted more than a thousand years, had one of the most monetized...
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 struggled...
Ancient Roman Coinage From Republic to Empire
By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....
The coinage of the ancient Romans underwent considerable changes as the government transitioned from a republic to an empire....
Christianity and Christian Symbols Appear on Ancient Coins
By David Hendin for CoinWeek .....
The cross has been the most recognizable symbol of Christianity for more than 1,600 years. But this was not...