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...

What was Elymais—and why do its strange bronze coins matter? Explore the forgotten kingdom of southwestern Persia, its ties to ancient Elam, Seleucid and Par...

What happened when ancient Greek cities minted money together? Explore the coinage of the Achaean, Aetolian, Lycian, Boeotian and Thessalian leagues—and how ...

Why did the ancient city of Selge put wrestlers and a slinger on its silver coins? Explore the famous staters of Pisidia, their civic imagery, Alexander-era ...

How did Vijayanagara turn gold, gods and royal power into some of the smallest coins collectors encounter? Explore the empire, Krishnadevaraya, pagodas, mini...

New to ancient Indian coins? Learn the major series from punch-marked silver and Mauryan money to Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian, Kushan and Gupta coins, with pra...

Why did ancient coins carry gods, temples and sacred symbols? Explore religion on Greek, Roman, Judaean and Byzantine coinage—from Athena and Zeus to Temple ...

What can ancient coins tell us about epidemics? Follow the Antonine Plague, the Plague of Cyprian, and the Plague of Justinian through Roman and Byzantine co...

How did money move along the Silk Road? Explore Roman, Persian, Kushan, Indian, Central Asian and Chinese coinage—and how trade, bullion, military payments, ...

Who was Ulpia Severina, wife of Aurelian—and did she rule Rome after his assassination? Explore her rise, coinage, the mysterious interregnum of AD 275, and ...

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A history of Athenian coinage from the early Wappenmünzen and first tetradrachms through the classical mass issues, wartime emergency money, fourth-century r...

Can you own a coin of Hannibal Barca? No surviving Barcid coin securely names Hannibal or proves that its famous male portrait depicts him; the head is gener...

Jesus Christ first appeared as a portrait on Byzantine imperial coinage under Justinian II around AD 692. Learn what the first Christ coins looked like, why ...