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Collector guides, emperor profiles, coin histories, and everything you need to go deeper into the ancient world.
Hundreds of emperors stare back from a dealer's table, and one question becomes unavoidable: which Roman emperor should you collect first? This complete guid...
Colonial silver, Fugio cents, Massachusetts pine tree shillings: if you have spent time with early American coinage, you already understand what makes ancien...
Few wars ended as completely as the Third Punic War. Between 149 and 146 BC, Rome besieged and destroyed Carthage, ending more than a century of rivalry and ...
Between 218 and 201 BC, Hannibal Barca led an army and its war elephants across the Alps and handed Rome the worst defeats in its history at Trebia, Trasimen...
In 264 BC, a dispute over a single Sicilian city drew Rome and Carthage into a twenty-three-year war that would remake the western Mediterranean. It was foug...
When Persian heralds demanded earth and water, the Greek city-states faced a choice that would echo through history. The wars that followed, Marathon, Thermo...
Long after Hannibal, another king rose to challenge Rome for nearly thirty years: Mithridates VI of Pontus, whose armies swept across Asia Minor and forced S...
For more than a century, Rome and Carthage battled for control of the Mediterranean, a rivalry that produced Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, the crossing of the ...
Every year, millions of people watch documentaries, visit museums, and read about Ancient Rome, Greece, the Vikings, the Crusades, and the Biblical world. Ye...
History is filled with unforgettable people: conquerors who reshaped continents, emperors who ruled civilizations, philosophers whose ideas still echo today....
If you've ever finished an Epic History TV documentary wishing you could step into the world you just watched, ancient coins are the closest thing there is. ...
The dirham was the great silver coin of the Islamic world, one of history's most influential currencies. Standardized during the reforms of Umayyad Caliph Ab...
The dinar was the great gold coin of the Islamic world, one of the most trusted currencies of the medieval age. Standardized during the reforms of Umayyad Ca...
The lepton was the smallest everyday coin of the ancient Greek and biblical world, and the humble bronze forever tied to the Widow's Mite. Its Greek name sim...
The fals was the humble copper coin of the medieval Islamic world, the small change ordinary people spent on food, market goods, and daily life while the gol...
Few ancient coin series tell a more powerful, or more painful, story than the coins known as Judaea Capta. Struck under Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian after ...
No Roman emperor traveled his empire like Hadrian, and around AD 130 the mint at Rome turned those journeys into one of the most ambitious coin programs of a...
Few buildings symbolize Ancient Rome like the Colosseum, and few realize the Romans put their greatest arena onto a coin. Under Titus, an engraver attempted ...
How do you feed a city of a million people in the ancient world? Rome's answer was Portus, the vast artificial harbor begun by Claudius and completed under N...
The quadrans was one of the smallest bronze coins ancient Rome struck, worth just a quarter of an as, the true pocket change of the Roman world. It bought br...
The quinarius was a small silver coin worth half a Roman denarius, introduced around 211 BC during the Second Punic War. Named for the Latin "five" (it was f...
The prutah was the everyday bronze coin of ancient Judea, struck from the Hasmonean kings through the early Roman period. Modest in value but rich in history...
The siglos was the principal silver coin of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the everyday counterpart to the famous gold daric. Introduced by Darius I the Grea...
The daric was the principal gold coin of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, introduced by Darius I the Great as part of his imperial reforms. Trusted for its exc...
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