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    ANCIENT COINS

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    Quizzes

     

    CoinTalk Quiz

       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

        are shown

     

    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