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The Ancient Coins of Pompey the Great

July 13, 2023 Mike Markowitz Leave a comment

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz ….. There was something of Jekyll and Hyde in Pompey. One side, the bright side, shows him as a great man who was brilliant, patriotic and talented. The other, the dark side, shows him as a willful monster: cruel,arrogant and overbearing (Fields, 4). ROMAN ARISTOCRAT AND general Gnaeus […]

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Mythical Monsters on Ancient Coins

February 14, 2020 Mike Markowitz Leave a comment

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ….. Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. ― G.K. Chesterton, a la Criminal Minds (CBS, 2007) CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY IS FILLED with monsters. For the civilizations of the ancient […]

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Ancient Roman Coin – The Loyalty of Sextus Pompey

January 5, 2018 Russell A. Augustin Leave a comment

Roman Coin – Sextus Pompey; 42-40 BCE, Denarius By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC ….. The title used on this Roman coin, praefectus classis et orae maritimae ex senatus consulto (“commander of the fleet and of the sea shores by decision of the Senate”), is a well-aimed insult to the other triumviri who […]

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CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Janus, God of January

January 4, 2017 Mike Markowitz Leave a comment

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek …. ANCIENT ROMANS KNEW even less about the prehistoric origins of their religion than we do, since we have knowledge from centuries of archaeology. Latin writers of the Classical era tried to connect their own native Italian gods to the prestigious gods of ancient Greece, with their complex genealogies […]

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