Greek coins of Southern Italy

"Tarentum is a colony of the Lacedaemonians, and its founder was Phalanthus."
~ Pausanias

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27 files, last one added on Aug 16, 2020

Greek coins of Southern Italy

"Tarentum... is famous for its size, its walls and its harbor, and is admired for its situation."
~ Livy

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26 files, last one added on Oct 04, 2020

Greek coins of Southern Italy

"...I would that I might end my days at Tarentum."
~ Horace

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34 files, last one added on Oct 04, 2020

Greek coins of Southern Italy

"... cast earth upon my body
And seek haven in Velia once more..."
~ Vergil

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24 files, last one added on Nov 14, 2018

Greek coins of Sicily

"Whatever may happen to the Sicilians, they comment on it with a joke."
~ Cicero

7 files, last one added on Feb 06, 2016

Greek coins of Sicily

“Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I will move the world.”
~ Archimedes

22 files, last one added on Jun 04, 2019

Greek coins of North Africa and Carthaginian Sicily

“We will either find a way, or make one.”
~ Hannibal Barca

3 files, last one added on Oct 08, 2013

Greek coins of Southern and Central Greece, the Peloponnesos, and related Islands

"The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside."
~ Homer

16 files, last one added on Feb 01, 2019

Greek coins from Northern Greece and the lands above the Black Sea

"Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune."
~ Dr. Thomas Fuller

9 files, last one added on Jan 31, 2019

Greek coins of Asia Minor

“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
~ Heraclitus of Ephesus

18 files, last one added on Feb 27, 2019

The legacy of Alexander's Empire

"Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor Earth two masters."
~ Alexander the Great

7 files, last one added on May 06, 2017

Coins of the Roman Republic

"What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race."
~ Vergil

4 files, last one added on Dec 28, 2009

Coins of the early Roman Empire

"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble."
~ Augustus

10 files, last one added on Oct 22, 2016

Coins of the later Roman Empire

"When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee."
~ Pliny the Elder

22 files, last one added on Jan 12, 2016

Roman coins from the Provinces

"I came, I saw, I conquered."
~ Julius Caesar

10 files, last one added on Nov 14, 2018

Coins of the goddess Hekate

"... Hekate whom Zeus the son of Cronos honoured above all. He gave her splendid gifts, to have a share of the earth and the unfruitful sea.
~ Hesiod

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10 files, last one added on Oct 11, 2020

Coins of the Goddess in mourning

"She was wearing a veil on her head, and a long dark robe
trailed around the delicate feet of the goddess.”
~ Homeric Hymn to Demeter

11 files, last one added on Feb 04, 2019

My wife's collection of Greco-Roman treasures

"Everything passes, art alone is eternal."
~ Hippokrates

8 files, last one added on Jun 19, 2018