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Friday, 3 July 2009
Edward Jekyll - a bookplate traced
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I bought the two volumes of the "Coin Collectors Manual", 1853, by Humphreys years ago when I was just beginning to develop an int...
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
What's so bad about firemen?
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In book 10 of Pliny's letters, that is the volume that charts the correspondence between him (as a special imperial delegate in Bithynia...
Saturday, 13 June 2009
The Doors of the Temple of Janus are shut.
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Nero 54-68 AD AE as Obv "NERO CAESAR AVG GERM IMP" Bare bust right Rev "PACE P R VBIQ PARTA IANVM CLVSIT SC" Temple of J...
Saturday, 6 June 2009
A handful of spits
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Ionia - Klazomenai AR obol c.520-480 BC Forepart of a winged boar right Quadripartite incuse square When I first read that in Seaford's ...
Friday, 29 May 2009
Ancus Marcius
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One of the coins in my posting about the Aqua Marcia featured on the obverse a portrait of Ancus Marcius. The coin is reposted above and I j...
Thursday, 21 May 2009
So where was/is Abila?
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A pertinent question I thought. Abila is now known as Tel Abil and it is located to the east of lake Tiberias (the Sea of Galilee), some way...
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
An unpublished coin of Abila?
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FORVM recently offered this unidentified coin for sale. Given that there was enough of the obverse legend to identify it as a coin of Geta C...
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