Numismatics Archive
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Ancient Greek coin collection sells for $25 million
Posted on January 7, 2012 | No CommentsA world record was set at an auction earlier this week, when an ancient Greek coin was bought for more than $3.25 million. The entire collection of 642 ancient coins was sold off for approximately $25 million through New York-based A. H. Baldwin and Sons auction house on Wednesday. -
Relations between the Late Roman World and Barbarian Europe in the Light of Coin Finds
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No CommentsAnd so, during a period of well developed exchange between the Roman Empire and the Barbaricum, coinciding with the Golden Age and the House of Antonine, Roman coins started to flow more intensively in the reign of the last two Antonine emperors. -
Roman coin hoards discovered in Shropshire and Worcestershire
Posted on October 30, 2011 | No CommentsBritain's Portable Antiquities Scheme announced this week details about two recent discoveries of Roman coin hoards -
A Comparative Study of Numismatic Evidence from Excavations in Jerusalem
Posted on September 18, 2011 | No CommentsA Comparative Study of Numismatic Evidence from Excavations in Jerusalem By Haim Gitler Liber Annuus, Vol. 46 (1996) Abstract: This present study compares the percentage of specific groups of coins from... -
Roman Gold and Hun Kings: the use and hoarding of solidi in the late fourth and fifth centuries
Posted on September 18, 2011 | No CommentsRoman Gold and Hun Kings: the use and hoarding of solidi in the late fourth and fifth centuries By Peter Guest Roman Coins Outside the Empire: Ways and Phases, Contexts... -
Financing the Peloponnesian War: the Peloponnesian perspective
Posted on September 4, 2011 | No CommentsFinancing the Peloponnesian War: the Peloponnesian perspective By Jennifer Warren Proceedings of the 13th International Numismatic Congress (2005) Introduction: 2003 has been a year in which it has been patently clear... -
THE HISTORY OF HAIRSTYLES IN THE MIRROR OF ANCIENT COINS
Posted on July 27, 2011 | No CommentsHair has played an important and varied role in the life of people since early times. Hairstyle became an inse- parable element of fashion -
Forgery on the Nile: Counterfeiting copper coins in ancient Egypt
Posted on July 2, 2011 | No CommentsForgery on the Nile: Counterfeiting copper coins in ancient Egypt By Barbara Lichoka Academia: The Magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences, No.4:12 (2006) Introduction: Ancient counterfeiters did not just copy... -
Valuing the Numismatic Legacy of Alexander the Great
Posted on June 5, 2011 | No CommentsThe conquests of Alexander III (“The Great”) transformed the economic as well as political landscape of ancient Greece and Persia. -
Frome Hoard to go to the Museum of Somerset
Posted on March 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe Frome Hoard, a collection of over fifty thousand Roman coins discovered last year, will be bought by the Museum of Somerset. The Museum raised over £420,000 to buy the...