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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?