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Tauler and Fau Selection from Auction 77 Ancient and World Coins
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Caitlin Green: A very long way from home: early Byzantine finds at the far ends of the world
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VANCOUVER Chris Monk was scanning the ground with his metal detector near Pacific Spirit Park in Vancouver when he came across something unusual. His detector alerted him to something under the grass, so he started digging. Six inches down, he found an old coin. He put it in his pocket and took it home. Once home, he began cleaning the coin, and posted pictures of it in online metal detecting groups. In the online groups, members alerted him to the significance of the coin they told him it was an ancient Roman coin. “This coin dates back to before the middle ages and when you think about the journey it’s taken to end up in my hand, that’s something quite spectacular,” he said.
Monday, February 22, 2021
RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL According to a statement released by the Israel Antiquities Authority, a soldier on a training exercise in northern Israel discovered a second-century A.D. coin and handed it over to regional authorities. Researcher Donald Tzvi Ariel said the discovery of only 11 such coins has been documented. All of them were found at sites in northern Israel, including Megiddo, Zippori, Tiberias, and Arbel. This coin may have been dropped by someone walking along one of the ancient roads in the region. Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor from A.D. 138 to 161, is shown on the coin’s obverse. The image on the reverse depicts the Syrian moon god MEN, and is accompanied by the year 217, or about A.D. 158 or 159, and the words “of the people of Geva Phillipi,” the city where the coin was minted. Avner Ecker of Bar-Ilan University explained that in civic year 217, cities were granted the right to mint their own coins and establish a municipal council for self
Archaeologists discover incredible breakfast room where Roman emperor Hadrian and his wife held elaborate meals to display their power 1,900 years ago
The grandiose setting was located in the sprawling, 200 acre, Villa Adriana in Tivoli, 20 miles from Rome
From 128 AD, the villa became the official residence from within which Hadrian directly ran his empire
The villa complex would have played host to a full court as well as visiting dignitaries and bureaucrats.
Hadrian and wife, Vibia Sabina, would have breakfasted in front of two fountains, silhouetted by the sun
This carefully designed scene, amid the grandiose villa, would reinforce the Emperor s status to onlookers
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