Blog/Ancient History
Documenting History with Coins
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, Your writings on Rome and the parallels are astounding because, as you say, human nature never changes. I took my family to Rome for a [...]
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Ukrainian Ancient Coin brings more than $5 million at Auction Today
The Balkck Sea Trade – Tauric Chersonesus, Panticapaeum. This is probably the finest known Gold Stater (circa 350-300AD) of Panticapaeum, which was the most [...]
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Cleopatra – Was she White or Black?
For whatever reason, people have tried to claim that Cleopatra was black. That is the most absurd proposition that distorts history beyond belief. When Alexander [...]
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Happy Pi Day
Caesar’s Wife begged him not to go to the Senate in the morning. She had her vision of his death. Decimus dined with Caesar the night before his assassination [...]
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Corruption inside the Deep State
History repeats because human nature never changes. During the Roman Republic, the name of the moneyer would appear on the coinage just as today the [...]
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Did Caesar Really Say – Et Tu Brute!
“Et tu, Brute? — Then fall, Caesar.” These famous lines from William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, describing Caesar’s death, are how most of us [...]
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Hoards Are Vital to our Understanding of History
QUESTION: Why do you buy hoards? It is interesting. Just curious. JY ANSWER: The coinage is the ONLY way to truly confirm the history. Much of the most important [...]
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J.P. Morgan was an Ancient Coin Collector
QUESTION: Is it true that J.P. Morgan was also an ancient coin collector? DV ANSWER: Absolutely. He collected both Greek and Roman coins. This was a Syracuse [...]
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Roman Gods & Religion Was Not as it Might Seem
QUESTION: You mentioned that Rome actually believed in the freedom of religion. I am correct then that the multitude of gods was the result of that? And you are [...]
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Why Are Ancient Coins Rising in Price?
QUESTION: I went to the New York show and I sat in on that CNG auction to watch the Diocletian medallion. A friend said you told him you thought it would bring [...]
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