EditorialPrutah of Pontius Pilate, bronze, embossed, bronze, total: diameter: 1.4 cm; depth: 0.1 cm, inscription: Avers: [], Coins, Coinage, Tiberius, Iulian-Claudian Dynasty, Early Imperial Period, Roman Antiquity, The coin units of the Kingdom of Iudaea are r...
EditorialFollis Iustinian I, g bronze, total: diameter: 3 cm, inscription: Obverse: next to the head on the right a cross, circumferential inscription DN IVSTINIANVS PP AUC, coins, numismatics, portrait, portrait of ruler, state portrait, historical person, emp...
EditorialPrutah from the time of the Jewish War, Bronze, embossed, Bronze, Total: Diameter: 1.8 cm; Depth: 0.1 cm, Inscription, Coins, Coinage, Nero, Early Imperial Period, Roman Antiquity, The coin unit of the ancient kingdom of Iudaea is called Prutah. The ob...
EditorialGiovanni del Cavino, Cosimo Scapti, ca. sixteenth century, bronze, 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm.), Giovanni del Cavino is most well-known (or infamous) for his skillfully executed copies of ancient Roman coinage. However, he also made medals of contemporary sitte...
EditorialNicolas Guy Brenet, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), 1806, bronze, 1 9/16 in. (4 cm.), This medal of Napoleon Bonaparte commemorates his conquest of Naples in 1806. The reverse image evokes the iconic coinage of ancient Neapolis and complements the neoc...
EditorialGold oktadrachm of Ptolemy IV Philopator, Hellenistic, 221?204 B.C., Greek, Ptolemaic, Gold, 1 1/16 in., 0oz. (2.7 cm, 27.77g), Coins, head of Ptolemy III, Euergetes/double cornucopiae, minted in Alexandria, Egypt. Gold and silver were the primary raw ...
EditorialGold 4-excelentes of Ferdinand V, King of Castile, and Isabella, Queen, around 1500. The conquistadors looted the gold treasures of the native populations of the Americas and exported much of it to Europe. This first New World treasure was reflected in...
EditorialGold solidus of Theodebert I, minted in the kingdom of Metz, eastern France. Frankish, 534-548 CE. After the fall of Rome, a number of " barbarian" kingdoms emerged in the West. Their coinage consisted of large gold coins called " solidi...
EditorialGold 4-excelentes of Ferdinand V, King of Castile, and Isabella, Queen, around 1500. The conquistadors looted the gold treasures of the native populations of the Americas and exported much of it to Europe. This first New World treasure was reflected in...
EditorialSilver tetradrachm of Mithridates I., Parthian, from Iran, 171-138 BCE. It is not clear when Parthian coinage started, but by the end of the second BCE coins were produced throughout the Parthian empire, imitating the designs of the Seleucid rulers of ...
EditorialBronze statuette of a ram, Hellenistic or Imperial, ca. 200 B.C.?A.D. 200, Cypriot, Bronze, H. 2 1/8 in. (5.41 cm), Bronzes, The ram had been used as the symbol on the coinage of the kings of Salamis in the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. But it al...
EditorialBronze statuette of a ram, Hellenistic or Imperial, ca. 200 B.C.?A.D. 200, Cypriot, Bronze, H. 2 1/8 in. (5.41 cm), Bronzes, The ram had been used as the symbol on the coinage of the kings of Salamis in the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. But it al...
EditorialGold oktadrachm of Ptolemy IV Philopator, Hellenistic, 221?204 B.C., Greek, Ptolemaic, Gold, 1 1/16 in., 0oz. (2.7 cm, 27.77g), Coins, head of Ptolemy III, Euergetes/double cornucopiae, minted in Alexandria, Egypt. Gold and silver were the primary raw ...
EditorialHalf sovereign of Edward VI, 1549/50, British, Gold, Diameter: 28 mm, Coins, The supplies of bullion brought to Europe from the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries caused inflation, and in response new coinage was issued with a wider r...
EditorialSilver tetradrachm of Mithridates I., Parthian, from Iran, 171-138 BCE. It is not clear when Parthian coinage started, but by the end of the second BCE coins were produced throughout the Parthian empire, imitating the designs of the Seleucid rulers of ...