Ancient coins and the images ancient rulers stamped on them provide the gateway to a more tangible and immediate experience with the people and times from 50 BC to 10 BC. Julius Caesar is murdered. Havoc reigns throughout Rome with Octavian, Marc Antony, Brutus, Fulvia, Cassius and Cleopatra all locked in deadly competition for control of a vast Roman Empire. In the end, Octavian prevails, Marc Antony and Cleopatra die epic deaths and the nose of Alexander’s embalmed body disappears.
Ancient coins and the images ancient rulers stamped on them provide the gateway to a more tangible and immediate experience with the people and times from 200 BC and the decline of the Roman Republic in 50 BC. Greek gods, vestal virgins, the first vote by ballot and figures like Sulla, Cicero, Crassus, Brutus, the Greek Mithridates, the great Pompey and the epic of Odysseus all share this era and the coins it issues. The Republic thrives and then declines.
Ancient coins and the images ancient rulers stamped on them provide the gateway to a more tangible and immediate experience with the people and times from 336 BC to 200 BC. Alexander conquers Asia and sets the Greeks up for centuries of empire. Alexander the Great, Ptolemy, Seleucus, Homer, Hannibal, the Queen of Sheba, and the first Cleopatra make their mark on this era.
Ancient coins and the images ancient rulers stamped on them provide the gateway to a more tangible and immediate experience with the people and times from 750 BC to 336 BC. The Persians, Lydians, and the Golden Age of Greece. The time of Croesus, the Buddah, Herodutus, Cyrus, Xerxes, Darius, and Philip II all make their mark in this era.