After a fifty year hiatus, prompted by reading Gibbon, I have been reviewing my collection of Roman, Byzantine, and Greek coins. I no longer have my research...
The attached denarius is from my collection that I have not been able to identify. I think it was minted by the Marcians, but cannot assign a date or value....
Richard, This group, like many yahoo groups, is not configured to transmit attachments - it strips them off your email. I suggest you put photos in the...
Scholars, wannabees, and just smart folk, does anyone have a view on what the palm tree means as part of Roman coinage. The obvious connection is to the...
Paul, A palm-branch by itself, among other things, is the main adjunct attribute of "Hilaritas", the allegorical personification of exuberance, gaiety or joy. ...
Mark, exceptional answer. I grew up with the Russian Orthodox church and couldn't recall why there was a "Palm Sunday." I obviously missed those Sunday...
Paul, I believe that one of the most important things to keep in mind while trying to ascertain the meaning and/or importance of Roman symbology is that Rome -...
... Here is a Tiberain coin die from a museum http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=coin%20die&w=55922094%40N00 Joe Geranio Julio Claudian Iconographic Association...
Dear Colleague We applied for a European numismatic network European monetary unification, from Antiquity to modern times (EMU). You will find a short video...
About 20 years ago I obtained an AE 19 or Quadrans shown in: http://picasaweb.google.com/110130494049733114237/LyreApollo# Can anyone help me to identify this?...
New publication, now available (in French) G. Depeyrot, La colonne de Marc Aurčle, I. Introduction, la colonne, Wetteren, Moneta # 104, 2010, 380 pages, ISBN...
The U.S. State Department has announced a date of May 6-7 for Cultural Property Advisory Committee hearings on the request for renewal of the Memorandum of...
Greetings all, Here we go again - Import Restrictions by way of the U.S. State Dept on Greek and Roman coins - doesn't the government have better things to do?...
JUDAEA AND ROME IN COINS, 65 BCE TO 135 CE An International Conference 13 & 14 September 2010 A two-day conference with the theme Judaea and Rome in Coins, 65...
List members, I believe somehow Robert's email was taken over and has a couple of lists. As far as I can tell no harm will come from just opening it, but do...
hi group, if some selected pages from a new sng-like edited macedonian book about stobi from interest - so ask me out of list for sending them to everybody -...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/julio-claudians/401467519/ To all, I have collected Julio Claudian coins for 25 years with an emphasis on Caligula. I have only...
Interesting!! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2033408/Six-things-York-Viking-treasures-steam-locomotives.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Paul Landsberg...
Commodity Money Coins: Metalism versus Nominalism, Part Two http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/08/commodity-money.html I was having an interesting discussion...
I recall seeing some aureii being auctioned by CNG some years ago that claimed they were contemporary strikes from India of Augustan era denarii. I found that...
