Dalmatius was Constantine the Great’s nephew and a Roman Caesar for barely two years before he was killed in the violent dynastic purge of AD 337. Learn who ...

Explore the silver quinarii of 1st-century BC Gaul: Celtic coin designs, Caesar’s Gallic Wars, Vercingetorix, and how to collect authentic Gallic silver with...

Why did Celtic and eastern European communities imitate Macedonian tetradrachms? Explore Philip III-type silver, Herakles and Zeus, lower Danube coinage, cha...

Who was Erzsébet Báthory, and how much of the Blood Countess story is history rather than legend? Explore the 1610 investigation, the later blood-bathing myt...

Who was Julia Domna? Explore the Emesene-born wife of Septimius Severus, mother of Caracalla and Geta, her title Mater Castrorum, intellectual patronage, ext...

Who was Carinus? Explore the last emperor of the dynasty of Carus, his struggle with Diocletian, the disputed Battle of the Margus in AD 285, hostile ancient...

What is a Byzantine coin weight? Explore the bronze weights used to check gold nomismata and solidi, how six nomismata related to the Roman ounce, why standa...

What were the coins of Cales? Explore the Campanian city’s silver didrachms of c. 265–240 BC, their Athena and racing-biga imagery, the Latin colony founded ...

Who was Faustina the Younger? Explore the daughter of Antoninus Pius and Faustina I, wife of Marcus Aurelius, mother of Commodus, her unusually extensive Rom...

Who was Faustina the Elder? Explore the wife of Antoninus Pius, her short time as Augusta, her enormous posthumous coinage, the Temple of Faustina and why he...

What were Brundisium coins? Explore the c. 215 BC bronze sextans of Rome's Adriatic port, its Poseidon and dolphin-rider imagery, Second Punic War context an...

What is a Byzantine lead seal? Discover how lead bullae authenticated documents, what names, titles and Christian images reveal, how sigillography reconstruc...

Who was Salonina? Explore the empress of Gallienus through her antoniniani, the capture of Valerian, the deaths of imperial heirs, the Gallic breakaway state...

Who was Julia Soaemias? Explore the mother of Elagabalus, daughter of Julia Maesa, the Severan family's return to power, Emesene religion, her silver denarii...

Who was Aelia Flaccilla? Explore the first wife of Theodosius I, mother of Arcadius and Honorius, her role in the Christian Theodosian court and the bronze c...

Who was Aelia Eudoxia? Explore the powerful empress of Arcadius, her conflict with John Chrysostom, the fall of Eutropius, court politics in Constantinople a...

Which Persian king captured a Roman emperor alive? Explore Shapur I, the rise of the Sasanian Empire, Valerian’s defeat at Edessa, Zoroastrian fire altars, c...

What coins circulated in Petra during the New Testament era? Explore the Nabataean kingdom, Aretas IV, Petra, the incense trade, Nabataean queens, Aramaic in...

What ancient coins bring Greek, Persian, Indian and Buddhist traditions together? Explore the Kushan Empire, Kanishka, Silk Road trade, gold coinage, Bactria...

What did money look like during the Renaissance? Explore florins, ducats, testoni, thalers, portrait coins, trade, classical revival and the transition from ...

Who was Leo I—and what do his tiny bronze coins reveal about Rome's survival? Explore the Eastern Roman emperor of AD 457–474, his struggle with Aspar, the d...

What did money look like under Ivan the Terrible? Explore Ivan IV, Russia's first crowned tsar, the 1535 monetary reform, the tiny hammered silver kopek, its...

Who ruled Syracuse in the age of Archimedes? Explore Hieron II, the First and Second Punic Wars, his long alliance with Rome, the coinage of Syracuse, Queen ...

What did a First Crusade commander put on his coins? Explore Tancred of Hauteville, the Principality of Antioch, Saint Peter, the famous sword-bearing portra...