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Most Byzantine coins were born in prosperity. The silver hexagram of Heraclius was born in catastrophe, struck from melted church silver to fund a desperate ...
When Heraclius seized the throne in AD 610, Persian armies stood within sight of Constantinople and many believed Rome's days were numbered. Within a generat...
Before Justinian could rebuild Rome, Anastasius I saved the empire that made it possible. A sixty-year-old administrator when he took the throne, he filled t...
For most people the Roman Empire ends in AD 476, but Justinian I proved otherwise. From Constantinople he reconquered North Africa, Italy, and Spain, built t...
Most people assume a genuine coin from the Roman Empire or Biblical Judaea must cost thousands. The surprising truth is that many cost less than a dinner for...
Some ancient coins are rare, some beautiful, some valuable, but only a handful truly changed history. From the world's first coin struck in Lydia, through th...
Ancient coins were never just money. They were the social media, political advertisements, and public monuments of the ancient world. For thousands of years,...
Arranged in historical order, these ten coinages trace the entire Roman Republic in silver. From the birth of the denarius in the war against Hannibal, throu...
Arranged in historical order, these ten coinages trace the entire Roman Republic in silver. From the birth of the denarius in the war against Hannibal, throu...
Arranged in historical order rather than by rank, these ten coinages let collectors trace the entire fall of the Roman Republic. From Sulla's march on Rome t...
The Republic did not fall in a day. It died through decades of civil war, and the coins of Caesar, Pompey, Brutus, Antony, and Octavian were there to witness...
Most collectors start with emperors. But centuries before Augustus, the Roman Republic struck some of the most varied and artistic coins of the ancient world...
To some he was a patriot defending the Republic. To others, the dagger that opened decades of civil war. Cassius Longinus was likely the chief architect of t...
The Athenian owl was the closest thing the ancient world had to an international currency. But the owl did not stop at the Golden Age. Follow it through the ...
A Byzantine emperor on one coin. A Hellenistic king copied 1,300 years after his portrait was first cut. Gemini and the zodiac on another. The Artuqids of Ma...
Their name comes from the Greek word for wreath, and the wreath is what sets them apart: broad silver tetradrachms from the cities of Hellenistic Asia Minor,...
For nearly a century the Hasmoneans ruled an independent Judaea. Mattathias Antigonus was the last of them, a king and high priest who seized Jerusalem with ...
If Roman coinage is a family tree, Greek coinage is an entire world: hundreds of city-states, kingdoms, and colonies, each striking its own money. But beneat...
Roman coinage did not end in AD 476. In the East, the empire and its money continued for nearly another thousand years. Byzantine coins can look confusing at...
Asses, sestertii, denarii, antoniniani, folles, solidi: Roman coinage can feel like a foreign language. But it gets simple once you follow it in order. This ...
Late Antiquity · History When Rome Fell, Its Coins Lived On The Successor Kingdoms That Inherited a Living Roman World, and the Coins That Bridge Antiq...
Every Roman emperor had rivals, and Roman history is filled with the men who tried to take the throne by force. Some founded breakaway empires that lasted ye...
He was the son of Constantine the Great, yet history remembers Constantius II less as a conqueror than as the emperor who simply held the line. His reign pro...
Most Roman coins celebrated emperors and armies. One series told a story instead. Struck at Alexandria under Antoninus Pius beginning around AD 148, the Labo...
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