The Ancient Celtic Coinage of Britain
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....
FOR ANCIENT GREEKS and Romans, Britain was a mysterious land at the northern edge of the world.
As...
Coins of the Persian Kings of Kings
By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek .....
The Persians did not have a coinage system of their own until about 546 BCE when Cyrus the...
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 – 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 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,...
Stack’s Bowers Offers Large Assemblage of Athenian Owls at NYINC Sale
By Nicholas Fritz - Numismatist, World and Ancient Coins, Stack's Bowers Galleries ......
No ancient Greek city-state captures the modern imagination quite like Athens. Though...
Ancient Chinese Coins and the World’s Oldest Mint
By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....
In early August 2021, Han Zhao and his team of Chinese archaeologists with the State University of Zhengzhou, announced...
The Grandeur That Was Rome – The Secular Games of the Circus Maximus
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ......
The Secular Games at the Circus Maximus were some of the largest and most memorable celebrations...
EID MAR Denarius Offered by Heritage Auctions at ANA World’s Fair of Money
The EID MAR denarius, undoubtedly the most historically important of all ancient coins, is the only Roman coin to mention a specific date, the...
Ancient Roman Coins: The Coins of Crassus
By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....
What does it take for an ancient historian to claim that you died by having molten gold poured down...
Mythology and Ancient Coins
By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....
The mythology of ancient Greece and Rome is vast, and many volumes have been written on it over the...
The Hole Truth: Ancient Coins That Were Pierced
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....
Don’t buy damaged coins. They will be impossible to sell. This was some of the best advice...
Trees on Ancient Coins
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....
MOST ANCIENT PEOPLE lived close to nature. Long before they built temples of stone, they worshipped their...
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...
The ANS Lyceum: New Online Educational Program to Begin March 31
The American Numismatic Society (ANS) announces the ANS Lyceum, a new online educational program. Over the course of several weeks, participants will have the...
On Ancient Mintmarks and Determining an Ancient Coin’s Origin
By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....
One of the most basic tasks of a numismatist is the identification of coins.
While correctly attributing the denomination, issuing...
The Archaic Smile on Ancient Coins
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....
Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues,
You can tell by the way she smiled...
— Bob Dylan,...
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....
The Coins That Aren’t There
By David Yoon for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ......
It has long been said that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. This...
The Ancient Coins of Kroisos
By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek .....
Kroisos, King of Lydia
Kroisos, the last king of the Ionian kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor, launched a...
Continuity and Legitimacy: The Ancient Coins of Septimius Severus
By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....
Septimius Severus ascended to the throne in absentia as he marched from the “sleepy” Danubian province of Pannonia Superior...
CNG Auction 118 of World and Ancient Coins Tops $4 Million, Doubles Estimate
Surging demand for quality Ancient and World coins pushed Classical Numismatic Group’s (CNG) Feature Auction 118, held September 13-14 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to over...
Crown of Iron: Coins of the Lombard Kings
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....
THE LOMBARDS, A tribe that traced their origin to Scandinavia, migrated into Eastern Europe in the fifth...
Temples on Ancient Coins
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....
Temples were designed to house a statue of the deity and store votive offerings, and were not...
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...
Tempest Over a “Cheater’s Weight”
By David Hendin for CoinWeek .....
A scientist need not be chastised for every error. Neither should every archaeologist, numismatist, or historian. But when the...
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...
Heritage Offers Werner Collection of Ancient Roman and Byzantine Coins
The Werner Collection of Ancient Roman and Byzantine Coins ranges over more than 1,600 years of Roman and Byzantine history, from the Republican period...
The Humble Coinage of the First Seleucid King
Seleucus I Nicator, the founder of the Seleucid Empire, never put his own portrait on the empire’s coinage. Why?
By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....
Since...
The Ancient Coins of Kephallenia
By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....
Kephallenia is the sixth-largest island of Greece and the largest in the Ionian Sea. It is located opposite the...