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Dr. Steve Benner talks about Roman general Marcus Agrippa and the imperial coins featuring him and his family.

Dr. Steve Benner discusses the ancient Greek silver and gold coins of the Dorian cities of Halikarnassos and Knidos.

Dr. Steve Benner writes about Ialysos, Kamiros, and Lindos - three Dorian cities on Rhodes - and their coins.

By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....   The previous article that I wrote on Aiolis covered the larger commercial cities of Aigai, Cyme, and Myrina. I

By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....   Aiolis was a small region on the west coast of Asia Minor (see Figure 1). It was surrounded by Lydia to the

By Steve Benner for CoinWeek ..... By the middle of the third century CE, the Roman Empire was in bad shape. In 253, when Valerian became emperor, the

By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....   By the middle of the third century CE, the Roman Empire was in bad shape. In 253, when Valerian became emperor,

By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....   Pamphylia was not a country unto itself but a region. It is located on the southern coast of Asia Minor (Modern

Panticapaeum: Ancient Greek Coins of the Black Sea’s Northern Coast   This is the last article in a series on the Greek colonies on the northern coast of the Black Sea ( Olbia; the second was on As mentioned previously, most of the colonies in the area that is now southern Ukraine and Russia were settled during the seventh through fifth centuries BCE. The soil in this region was very rich, referred to as the “Black Land”, and cities’ economies were based on fishing, agriculture, vi...