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A fake coin made using a sand mold. The grainy texture of this coin make it obviously a sand-cast coin and not a genuine artifact.

Faustina the Younger was the daughter of Antoninus Pius and the wife of Marcus Aurelius. She was not well regarded by historians like Cassius Dio; he claims she was licentious and unfaithful, but it seems that she and Marcus Aurelius may have had a…

Floor-plan of the sanctuary, including the temple and temenos

Frome Hoard is a hoard of 52,503 Roman coins found in April 2010 by metal detectorist Dave Crisp near Frome in Somerset, England. Most of the coins are made from debased silver or bronze and it is one of the the largest hoards ever found in Britain.…

Cybele was associated with Magna Mater, a very old goddess of the Roman pantheon. Shrouded in secrecy and mystery, the worship of this foreign goddess came with the Second Punic War. The Romans feared defeat and sought an oracle, which told them to…

We do not know much about Gaius Hosidius Geta, son of Gaius, the individual who minted this coin in 68 BCE. We know that he was a triumvir monetalis, one of the three men in charge of minting coins during the Roman Republic. The boar on the back is…

A bronze coin of Gallienus from Antioch in Pisidia, showing the Tyche of Antioch holding a branch and cornucopia on the reverse.

Gallienus’ reign was plagued with almost every calamity that could befall an empire. There were revolts, invasions and disease. Though faced with these problems, he still successfully ruled the empire for 15 years, when he was finally killed by a…