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I enjoy coins for their artistry and for the history behind them. Because there are so many coins with an interesting history behind them, and because there are so many coins that demonstrate great artistry, I can think of far more than just Ten Coins I’d Love to Own. I narrowed my list down to those I would MOST love to have, and that I am MOST likely to be able to obtain, someday, without having to sell more than one or two vital organs. Here is my list, in reverse chronological order.
Eighth Stavraton of Constantine XI
There are only 92 coins known from the reign of
1. Artimisia (source for entire post)
Basic Artemisia Facts:
Dates: 5th century B.C.E.
Also known as: Artemesia
biography:
Artemisia would have been ruler of Halicarnassus at the time of Herodotus’ birth in that city. Her story comes to us from Herodotus.
Artemisia was the ruler of Halicarnassus (near today’s Bodrum, Turkey) and its neighboring islands, part of the Persian empire then ruled by Xerxes. She assumed the throne after the death of her husband.
When Xerxes went to war against Greece (480-479 B.C.E.), Artemisia brought five ships and helped Xerxes fight the Greeks in the naval battle of Salamis.
by Mark Hebblewhite New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. xiv, 188. Illus., maps, chron., appends., notes, biblio., index. $160.00. ISBN: 1138102989
The Problem of Empire in the Age of Theodosius “The Great”
“Depending on what source you read he was either a forgiving, benevolent, charitable, energetic, and courageous emperor who was diligent in his duties or a wrathful, indolent, and cruel tyrant, who was easily misled by those around him.” (p. 3)
The Roman Emperor Theodosius I, who ruled from 379 to 395 CE, is often labeled as “the Great,” to distinguish him from his long-reigning but ineffectual grandson, Theodosius II (402-450.) He is remembered mainly as a pious champion of Christian orthodoxy and a ferocious foe of classical paganism. By about the year 350, a majority of Romans professed at least nominal allegiance to some form of Christianity. After the death of the last pagan emperor Julian “the Apostate” in 363, Christianity was the
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