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ANCIENT COINS

Quizzes

For my CoinTalk friends... match the coins with the owners

Coin Quiz 2: Match the Coin to the Location

Think you know your Greek coins? We shall see :D

Coin Quiz 3: Twelve Caesars aurei

Can you recognize each emperor by only his face?

Coin Quiz 4: Twelve Caesars denarii

Devilishly difficult; only the emperors' noses and eyes

Quiz 5: Name the Emperor by the description

Identifying an emperor based on a typical coin portrait is one thing, but can you name the emperor based solely on contemporary historians' written descriptions of

their physical attributes?

Writeups and stories

How I Became Interested in Ancient coins

Blame it on my grandparents...

Adventures in Bidland

Stepping it up a dozen notches.

A Deity Worth of Respect

Venus Cloacina, Goddess of the Great Sewer

A Coin from the Purple People

Phoenician dishekel of King Uzibaal

A Boy and His Stone

Elagabalus transporting the Sacred Stone of Emesa

Battle Tips from Jesus

Commemorating Constantine I's victory and vision at Milvian Bridge

Coins of Peloponnesus

Playing around with a somewhat interactive map

Trajan's Column

A remarkable feat of artistry and engineering

A Puzzling Provincial of Germanicus and Drusus

Overstruck with special ring dies... why?

A Magical Tessera?

What was the purpose of these stag/bee tokens from Ephesus?

The Silphium Plants of Kyrenaica

Now extinct, these plants seemed to be the cure for

whatever ails you... and your livestock

Just for fun

Certified Ancient Coin Acceptance™ Corporation

Get your CACA stickers today!

Ancient Coin Clothing!

Move over, Dolce & Gabanna.

Totally Looks Like...

These coins seem so familiar.

Season's Greetings from my ancient coins :)
Silenus, a nymph, Medusa, and Athena compete in a sled race

An Important Numismatic Discovery

Touched by his Noodly Appendage

A New Ancient Numismatics Magazine

For gentlemen only