Aulus Plautius was a member of gens Plautīa, specifically the family branch of gens Plautī Silvānī, and was a prominent statesman towards the end of the Roman Republic, holding several magistracies over his career: tribūnus plēbis (Tribune of the Plebs) in 56 BC, aedīlis curūlis in 55 BC, praetor urbānīs in 51 BC, prōpraetor of […]
Welcome to May and June of 2024! These two months have been ‘business as usual’ and quite busy – with most of June being out of Australia in both London for the London Coin Fair on the 1st of June and in Hong Kong for the HKINF between 19th to the 21st of June. Instagram […]
Welcome to the next two months of 2024 – March and April! Business as usual for us at Colonial Coins and Medals. Coming off the back of our first time exhibiting at a London coin show in years, we were focussed on our next show and were deep in preparation for another Hong Kong Coin […]
Welcome to 2024! The first two months of the year have been great for us at Colonial Coins and Medals. Coming off the back of a great Hong Kong coin show in December of 2023, the shop opened in January to great interest and retail business. Further to this, we embarked on the 30th of […]
Germany, Electorate of Saxony (Albertinian Line), Elector Johann Georg II (1656-1680AD), Silver Quarter Thaler (7.23g, 31.5mm), 1661 CR, Dresden mint. Obverse: Bare Headed half-length Bust of Elector Johann Georg II facing to the right, donning Elector’s robes consisting of ermine-trimmed cloak with ruff and holding electoral sword in right hand which rests upon his shoulder, […]
To all our wonderful clients, We hope you had a safe and happy holiday season for 2021, making very merry Christmas and New Year memories. It is important to take a moment to’smell the roses’ on these notable days, to relax and recharge, but also spend the time to reflect and look back on the […]
August of 2021 was a very eventful and numismatically significant period, most notably with the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money held in Rosemont, Illinois from the 10th to 14th of August. Several industry leading auction companies offered an immense and dazzling display of numismatic rarities; of note, Heritage Auctions and Stack’s Bowers Galleries […]
The Goddesses of Victory: Nī́kē and Victōria The Goddess Victōria was the personification of victory in all forms, and was the Roman interpretation and equivalent to the Greek Goddess ‘Νῑ́κη‘, transliterated as ‘Nī́kē‘. Although the concept of victory was important to both cultures, from a numismatic perspective Victōria appears to be featured far more often […]
Antiochos, son of Seleukos IV Philopator,Silver Drachm (3.93g, 19mm), struck circa 175-170 BC. Obverse: Diademed Head of the young Antiochos facing right. Reverse: Naked figure of Apollo seated on Omphalus facing left, holding an arrow and bow, legend either side, “BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY”. Seaby-6974. The very brief reign of Antiochos, the younger son of King […]
Introduction: The Crisis The ‘Crisis of the Third Century’ began with the assassination of Mārcus Aurēlius Sevērus Alexander (Severus Alexander), the last emperor of the Severan Dynasty, in 235 AD, and was a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressure of repeated foreign invasions, civil wars and economic decline. Over […]