EditorialPrutah of Pontius Pilate, bronze, embossed, bronze, total: diameter: 1.4 cm; depth: 0.1 cm, inscription: Avers: [], Coins, Coinage, Tiberius, Iulian-Claudian Dynasty, Early Imperial Period, Roman Antiquity, The coin units of the Kingdom of Iudaea are r...
EditorialFollis Iustinian I, g bronze, total: diameter: 3 cm, inscription: Obverse: next to the head on the right a cross, circumferential inscription DN IVSTINIANVS PP AUC, coins, numismatics, portrait, portrait of ruler, state portrait, historical person, emp...
EditorialPrutah from the time of the Jewish War, Bronze, embossed, Bronze, Total: Diameter: 1.8 cm; Depth: 0.1 cm, Inscription, Coins, Coinage, Nero, Early Imperial Period, Roman Antiquity, The coin unit of the ancient kingdom of Iudaea is called Prutah. The ob...
EditorialGiovanni del Cavino, Cosimo Scapti, ca. sixteenth century, bronze, 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm.), Giovanni del Cavino is most well-known (or infamous) for his skillfully executed copies of ancient Roman coinage. However, he also made medals of contemporary sitte...
EditorialJ. F. R., Nicolas de Pierola (1839-1913), President of Peru 1879-1881 and 1895-1899, Congratulatory Medal on Pi?rola's 60th Birthday, 1899, bronze, 1 1/2 in. (3.81 cm), Guillaume Dupr?, is one of the most celebrated medalists of all time. Dupr?'s talen...
EditorialNicolas Guy Brenet, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), 1806, bronze, 1 9/16 in. (4 cm.), This medal of Napoleon Bonaparte commemorates his conquest of Naples in 1806. The reverse image evokes the iconic coinage of ancient Neapolis and complements the neoc...
EditorialCharles V, German Emperor, grants coinage to Augsburg, Silver Medal. Obverse: coat of arms under year inside circumscription. Reverse: crowned, double-headed eagle with shield in front of chest within inscription, Augsburg, Charles V of Habsburg (Germa...