Archive - Ancient Coins

April 2025

Interviewing... @empressofbyzantium

Apr 29 •

⛰️ a view to a hill 🏛

There are few greater moments in life than chancing upon that package or envelope you’ve been waiting so eagerly for.

Apr 3 •

March 2025

Sabina didn’t much please emperor Hadrian.

Mar 13 •

November 2024

de consolatione philosophiae

A little different this week - we’ll be looking at an early medieval polymath and one of his works, which Gibbons describes as “a golden volume not…

Nov 30, 2024 •

October 2024

Architectural Types (3)

Oct 31, 2024 •

Architectural Types (2)

Some more ancient coins featuring architecture… Here, we’ll be looking at the ‘cityscape’ (urban landscape), a longstanding subject of artwork. This was…

Oct 25, 2024 •

Architectural Types

Roman coins feature many things, from gladiatorial scenes and piles of weapons to lion-drawn chariots and sea monsters.

Oct 17, 2024 •

something different

No article about ancient coins this week, alas.

Oct 10, 2024 •

a shield 🛡️ and a vase 🏺

Continuing on from the last couple of posts, here’s another favourite coin of mine:

Oct 3, 2024 •

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