A soldier from the provinces who rose to end Rome's civil wars, found the Flavian dynasty, and begin the Colosseum. The story of Vespasian and the rich coina...

Raised to power by the Rhine legions and destroyed by Vespasian's, Vitellius held Rome for eight months before the Flavians took everything. The story of the...

Ninety-five days on the throne, and the emperor who chose the welfare of Rome over his own survival. The story of Otho, a former companion of Nero, and the s...

Seven months on the throne, and the moment Rome learned that armies, not bloodlines, would decide who ruled. The story of Galba, the first emperor of the Yea...

Ancient coin collecting is called "The Hobby of Kings," but some of those kings were literally collecting other kings: coins bearing the portraits of Julius ...

Coin collecting has carried the nickname "The Hobby of Kings" for generations. But where did that reputation come from? This article traces the origins of an...

Father's Day is approaching, and you may be wondering what to get the man who insists he doesn't need anything. Before you send another gift card, consider s...

Athens struck coins that circulated throughout the Mediterranean. Corinth, Corinth minted for centuries. Even small Greek cities produced civic coinage as po...

Herod Agrippa II was the last king of the Herodian dynasty and one of the few political figures in the New Testament who personally heard the Apostle Paul sp...

Herod Agrippa I was the grandson of Herod the Great and the last king to govern a largely united Judaea. He ruled from AD 37 to 44, during the same years the...

Herod the Great ruled Judaea from 37 to 4 BC and appears in the Gospel of Matthew as the king on the throne at the birth of Jesus. He was also one of antiqui...

Pontius Pilate's name appears in the Apostles' Creed and in all four Gospels. He governed Judaea from AD 26 to 36, and his decision during one Passover seaso...

The Bible never names the Wise Men, never states how many there were, and never identifies their homeland. Matthew tells us only that Magi from the East came...

Biblical coins are not reserved for wealthy collectors or specialist scholars. Some of the most important coins connected to the New Testament are surprising...

The Shekel of Tyre is the largest and most historically significant coin connected to the New Testament. It appears to have been the standard currency for th...

The Tribute Penny is the coin shown to Christ when He was asked whether Jews should pay taxes to Rome. His answer, "Render unto Caesar the things which are C...

The Widow's Mite is one of the most emotionally powerful objects in ancient numismatics: a tiny bronze coin directly connected to a story in the New Testamen...

The Antigonid dynasty was the final royal house of independent Macedon, ruling from the chaos after Alexander the Great's death until Rome ended their kingdo...

Lysimachos was one of Alexander the Great's bodyguards who became one of the most powerful kings of the Hellenistic world. He understood something that most ...

Perseus of Macedon was the last king of the Antigonid dynasty, the final ruler of a Macedonian kingdom whose lineage ran through Philip II and Alexander the ...

Philip V of Macedon ascended the throne at seventeen and became the last Hellenistic king who might reasonably have held back Rome. His silver tetradrachms a...

Live sales platforms like Whatnot and eBay Live have become one of the fastest-growing parts of the ancient coin hobby. Dealers like Leo Greenberry, Josh Ben...

Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, the final ruler of a Roman imperial tradition that had endured nearly fifteen hundre...

No coin in Roman numismatics carries heavier symbolic weight than the bronze of Romulus Augustulus. The last emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The final n...