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CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: The Coinage of Claudius

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ..... I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles,) who...

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...

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,...

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...

“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)....

Eagles on Ancient Coins

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz ..... MAJESTIC, POWERFUL, SWIFT, and intelligent, the eagle has held a strong grip on human imagination since the...

CoinWeek Podcast #154: Beware the Ides of March

CoinWeek Podcast #154: Beware the Ides of March Mobile phone users. Stream this podcast for free by downloading the podomatic app or subscribe to the CoinWeek...

Mike Markowitz: Ten Roman and Byzantine Coins I’d Love to Own

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   I collect Late Roman (c. 300-491 CE) and Byzantine (c. 491-1350 CE) gold coins. The tangled histories of these...

The Last Coins of the Roman Empire

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek ..... The Roman Empire began on January 16, 27 BCE when the Roman Senate conferred the titles Augustus and...

Reading Ancient Greek Coins

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   COMPARED TO MODERN American coins, which are required by law to include quite a lot of text, ancient Greek...

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