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History repeats because human nature never changes. During the Roman Republic, the name of the moneyer would appear on the coinage just as today the...
“Et tu, Brute? — Then fall, Caesar.” These famous lines from William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, describing Caesar’s death, are how most of us...
QUESTION: Why do you buy hoards? It is interesting. Just curious. JY ANSWER: The coinage is the ONLY way to truly confirm the history. Much of the most important...
QUESTION: Is it true that J.P. Morgan was also an ancient coin collector? DV ANSWER: Absolutely. He collected both Greek and Roman coins. This was a Syracuse...
QUESTION: You mentioned that Rome actually believed in the freedom of religion. I am correct then that the multitude of gods was the result of that? And you are...
QUESTION: I went to the New York show and I sat in on that CNG auction to watch the Diocletian medallion. A friend said you told him you thought it would bring...
I have just listed a few more coins in the store – Julian II, Julia Mamea, and Ukrainian Arrow Head – Proto-Money from the black sea. I have been buying...
COMMENT: Hi Martin, Things have gotten so bad in governments around the world that I am starting to sympatise with Caligula who appointed his horse as a minister...
Rome became the greatest empire that ever existed because of its organization, which included its communication system. Here we have a Roman sestertius of Emperor...
This is one of the coins found in Pompeii. It is not officially Roman, but privately minted and used for small change partly due to a shortage of copper quadrans....
