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By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....   Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 * * * Troas, unlike the subject of my...

The first installment of the Historical Scholar Collection was featured in its own catalog in our recent Chicago World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session,...

A medallion from one of the best and most important collections of ancient coins ever sold through Heritage Auctions could bring $200,000 USD or...

By Numismatica Genevensis SA ......   Anyone interested in truly top-class numismatics will have been following Numismatica Genevensis’ auctions for years. They are a pretty rare...

By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....   Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 * * * This article is the second part...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and...

By Alice Sharpless for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ......   A new study, published by Paul N. Pearson et al. last week in Plos One, has...

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek .....   Part I | Part II * * * Iconoclasm (“image smashing”) was very popular within the Byzantine military during the...

By Jeremy Bostwick - Senior Numismatist & Cataloger, Stack's Bowers ......   The annual Stack's Bowers Galleries auction held in conjunction with the New York International...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   ALONGSIDE THE GREAT Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires that emerged from the breakup of Alexander the Great’s empire following his...

By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....   Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 * * * This article is the third part...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   WINE PLAYED SUCH a central role in Greek and Roman culture, economics, and religion that it is no surprise...

By Künker GmbH ......   Eleven extensive special collections will be sold by the Osnabrück auction house Künker in its Spring Auction Sales from 16 to...

By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....   Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 * * * This article is the fourth and final...

By David Hendin for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ......   All coin images in this post appear in Hendin's Guide to Biblical Coins (6th Ed.) and...

By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....   Pamphylia was not a country unto itself but a region. It is located on the southern coast of Asia...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   BORN IN 247 BCE at Carthage (near modern Tunis in North Africa), Hannibal Barca is remembered as one of...

By Atlas Numismatics ......   We have been hard at work preparing our latest selection of new coins and medals. There are 460 new pieces for your...

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   As someone working in the field of "pre-modern numismatics" at NAC USA, I have the extremely rare opportunity to...

In the 25th episode of the Aaron Berk Ancient Coin Podcast, expert Aaron Berk and fellow Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. numismatist Mike Nottelmann take...

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) is pleased to invite applications for the 2023 Collier Prize in Ancient Numismatics, to be awarded to the best...

By Lucia Carbone for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ......   On February 16–18, 2023, the Royal Netherlands Institute of Rome (KNIR) hosted an international workshop titled...

  By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   No lonelier man ever occupied the Byzantine throne - or any other, for that matter. Basil was ugly, dirty,...