Ancient Coins: Coins of Great Generals

[@angeloofpalermo2612]

These generals definitely deserved to be immortalized and I'm sure they'd be flattered to know that people collect their coins thousands of years after their deaths.

[@PaulAndrewsClan]

Thanks Leo. Just completed my 5 Good Emperors through Savoca providing the Nerva Denarius through your recommendation. I also have a few others coming too including an Alexandra The Great. 😊

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Amazing! Congrats on the 5 Good Emperors set!

[@blueguy5588]

Love how your channel really captures the historical aspect of the hobby.

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

It is what I love the most about ancient coins. Each piece, as humble as it might be, is a snapshot of a moment in time, thousands of years ago!

[@tavuzzipust7887]

The coins of the Crusader States are fascinating -- as are also the coins of the Normans in Sicily.

[@wardrm5598]

I have a nice coin of Emperor Theodosius. His generalship and story are interesting. Especially the battle of Frigidus River which essentially ended the old pagan traditions of Rome. Too many great generals!

[@kayharker712]

Nice set of Generals - Antigonos The One-Eyed - it took a coalition of all the Diadochi, including Seleucus and Ptolemy to finally finish him off - what a soldier ! Incidentally "Gonos" in Greek is cognate with our own "gonad" and means 'progenitor' or 'seed' 'stock' that sort of thing and is related to 'Greek' gignesthai - to be born. So his name Antigonos means "substitute progenitor" or perhaps "A Chip off the Old Block" ! I remember reading "Iron Men and Saints" by Harold Lamb (1930) still a great account of the First Crusade Perhaps the most famous Crusader for fighting ability was Robert Guiscard's son Mark (nicknamed "Bohemond" after the biblical "Behemoth" because he was so big and memorably described by an awestruck Anna Comnenus in her "Alexiad") Most of the First Crusades hair-raising scrapes form near defeat against overwhelming forces (notably Kerbogha at Antioch) were led by Bohemund and his nephew - Tancred - the same one on that coin holding his sword. The Arab sources described Bohemund as the "little God of the Christians" but they said "Tancred was a Djinn" meaning "unearthly spirit" because on the battlefield he was extremely deadly with his sword ..... of all the incredible Norman soldiers of the tenth to tweflth centuries - I think he was perhaps the most fearsome in single combat. Great Show !!

[@sherylcrowe3255]

Again...my gratitude sir! Your work is greatly appreciated 🙏

[@qaerkyr9197]

I have an interesting coin with a powerfull ancient leader. Artemisia I of Caria (during her reign - coin is a hemidrachm from Halikarnassos around 490 BC). That coin isn't expesive but it is both misterious and during the same period of king of Sparta - Leonidas. Sadly the Spartans didn't issued any coins until much later when they had to pay for merceneries. They considered coins a symbol of weakness and decadence, and they performed their trades using iron ingots. This is the very same Artemisia of which Xerxes said, “My men have turned into women and my women into men!”

[@christopherevans2445]

Love that Germanicus coin

[@markp44288]

is the Trajan an As? It looks more like a dupondius to me. It seems to be brass... then again, he doesn't have the radiate crown.. unusual coin.

[@Numischannel]

Nice Tarsos stater!

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

My favourite coin of the bunch, blew me away with its level of detail and refined style :)

[@Numischannel]

@@ClassicalNumismatics Yes, Tarsos has some very beautiful staters under the later Achaemenids

[@isabelcrb]

lovely trajan coin!

[@Belowbluewaterdiver]

Sees Aurelian in thumbnail and got no Aurelian. I feel cheated

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Ahh, a fellow Total War fan! It was a matter of available inventory. Forgive me for that! Aurelian will have a video ENTIRELY dedicated to him, he deserves it.