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    ANCIENT COINS

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    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

     

    The Silphium Plants of Kyrenaica

       Now extinct, these plants seemed to be the cure for

       whatever ails you... and your livestock

     

     

     

    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?