Origin: Israel (Jerusalem) Circa: 103 BC to 76 BC Collection: Jewish Medium: Bronz-Rhodonite-Gold From its dazzling golden frame, this extraordinary bronze coin radiates  More »

Origin: Israel (Jerusalem) Circa: 103 BC to 76 BC Collection: Jewish Medium: Bronz-Rhodonite-Gold From its dazzling golden frame, this extraordinary bronze coin radiates a timeless beauty, the aura of other lives in other places, and the glow of forgotten hands, which once held it. To wear it is to understand more than intrinsic beauty: it is to know history. - (FJ.1691)   « Less

Origin: Geresa, Jordan Circa: 235 AD to 238 AD Collection: Coin Jewelry Style: Roman Medium: Bronze, Gold This stunning coin has been set in an 18 karat gold pendant and  More »

Origin: Geresa, Jordan Circa: 235 AD to 238 AD Collection: Coin Jewelry Style: Roman Medium: Bronze, Gold This stunning coin has been set in an 18 karat gold pendant and strung in a necklace with genuine red jasper beads, genuine black onyx beads, genuine hametite beads, and a 14 karat gold clasp. - (FJ.1693)   « Less

Origin: Israel (Sebastia, Samaria) Circa: 98 AD to 117 AD Collection: Roman Medium: Silver-Gold-Lapis This lovely coin has been set in an 18 karat gold pendant and strung  More »

Origin: Israel (Sebastia, Samaria) Circa: 98 AD to 117 AD Collection: Roman Medium: Silver-Gold-Lapis This lovely coin has been set in an 18 karat gold pendant and strung in a necklace with genuine lapis lazuli beads, genuine red jasper beads, genuine black onyx beads, and a 14 karat gold clasp. - (FJ.1695)   « Less

Origin: Syria (Damascus) Circa: 284 AD to 305 AD Collection: Roman Medium: Bronze-Gold-Faience Additional Information: This splendid coin has been set in an 18 karat gold  More »

Origin: Syria (Damascus) Circa: 284 AD to 305 AD Collection: Roman Medium: Bronze-Gold-Faience Additional Information: This splendid coin has been set in an 18 karat gold pendant and strung in a necklace with genuine Egyptian New Kingdom faience beads and modern rose quartz beads and black onyx beads with a 14 karat gold clasp. Most ancient Egyptian beads were made of faience, a glass-composite glaze which was introduced as early as the Pre-Dynastic period. According to Egyptologists, most beads were made on an axis, probably of thread, which would burn up during firing, leaving a hole. Disc, ring and tubular beads were made by coating the axis with the unfired body-paste, rolling the cylinder to an even diameter on a flat surface, and then scoring it with a knife into sections of the desired length. Other shapes, such as ball beads, were rolled between the hands and perforated while still wet with a stiff point such as a wire needle. The beads were then dried, coating with glaze (if the glaze had not already been mixed with the paste), and fired. The firing process often gave the beads a beautiful translucent quality. The majority of faience beads are blue or green in color, but black, red yellow and white ones were also produced, especially in the New Egyptian Kingdom. - (FJ.1714)   « Less

Origin: Jerusalem, Israel Circa: 76 BC to 40 BC Collection: Jewelry Style: Beaded Coin Necklaces Medium: Bronze, Gold, Jasper Along with the beauty we can see, there is  More »

Origin: Jerusalem, Israel Circa: 76 BC to 40 BC Collection: Jewelry Style: Beaded Coin Necklaces Medium: Bronze, Gold, Jasper Along with the beauty we can see, there is an intangible something, which gives this stunning necklace a glowing lustre: history. To wear it is to affirm a belief in the past as a source of inspiration for the future, a belief that the human spirit enduresm even thrives no matter what the obstacles. - (FJ.1726)   « Less

Origin: Jordan (Geresa) Circa: 244 AD to 249 AD Collection: Roman Medium: Bronze-Gold-Jasper Additional Information: This superb coin is set in an 18 karat gold pendant  More »

Origin: Jordan (Geresa) Circa: 244 AD to 249 AD Collection: Roman Medium: Bronze-Gold-Jasper Additional Information: This superb coin is set in an 18 karat gold pendant and strung in a necklace with genuine rock crystal beads, genuine red jasper beads, genuine black onyx beads, and a 14 karat gold clasp. During Philip’s reign, Rome celebrated the one thousandth anniversary of its founding. That much time and more than half again has passed since this coin was struck. It is all relative, of course. Among the things that endure across the ages are a love of adornment, and an appreciation of luxurious good taste—for which this necklace fulfills a definite need. - (FJ.1740)   « Less

Silver Denarius of Emperor Caracalla - C.9970Origin: MediterraneanCirca: 198 AD to 217 ADCollection: NumismaticsStyle: RomanMedium: Silver.Caracalla was born April 4,188 in  More »

Silver Denarius of Emperor Caracalla - C.9970Origin: MediterraneanCirca: 198 AD to 217 ADCollection: NumismaticsStyle: RomanMedium: Silver.Caracalla was born April 4,188 in Lyon, where his father, Septimius Severus, was serving as governor of the province of Gallia Lugdunensis under Emperor Commodus. His name was changed from Lucius Septimius Bassianus to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus at the age of seven. The name change was a way of connecting the family of Severus to that of the Antonines. The nickname Caracalla was taken from the name of a type of cloak popularized by the emperor, but this nickname, originally derisive, was never used officially. From the time of his name change to Antoninus, Caracalla was the designated heir of Severus. Less than three years later he was proclaimed emperor, officially joining his father as co-rulers of the empire. At the age of 14, he was married to the daughter of the praetorian prefect Plautianus, but the teenager despised his wife. The marriage ended less than three years later and there were no children. Upon his father’s death in 211, Caracalla ruled the empire jointly with his brother, Geta, until he was murdered later the same year, leaving Caracalla in sole control at the age of 23. The year 212 saw a flurry of administrative reforms under the young emperor's leadership. Soldiers received increases in pay and in legal rights, but the most noteworthy change was the bestowal of Roman citizenship upon all free residents of the empire. Construction was also well underway on the magnificent baths in Rome that would bear the emperor's name. In 217, Caracalla was assassinated on the road back from his military campaigns against the Partians in the east. Although Caracalla remains a rather dubious figure, historians often overlook the energetic, reformist and even intellectual character of Caracalla's reign. The changes brought about in the little more than five years of Caracalla's sole rule would have long-lasting implications throughout the empire for generations to come.   « Less

Origin: Syria (Emessa) Circa: 222 AD to 235 AD Catalogue: v4 Collection: Roman Medium: Bronze-Gold Too often in the modern world, we seem in a hurry to glorify the new,  More »

Origin: Syria (Emessa) Circa: 222 AD to 235 AD Catalogue: v4 Collection: Roman Medium: Bronze-Gold Too often in the modern world, we seem in a hurry to glorify the new, to wear what will be fashionable tomorrow and gone the day after. By choosing jewelry such as this, however, a women makes the statement that she appreciates the classics, adn will wear what is timelessly lovely in any age. - (FJ.1745)   « Less

Origin: Syria (Antioch) Circa: 286 AD to 305 AD Collection: Roman Medium: Bronze-Gold-Crystal Maximianus had a lively and varied career, full of ups and downs on a grand  More »

Origin: Syria (Antioch) Circa: 286 AD to 305 AD Collection: Roman Medium: Bronze-Gold-Crystal Maximianus had a lively and varied career, full of ups and downs on a grand scale. He was apparently someone who knew how to get the most out of life, and this is the ideal necklace for a person who shares that secret. - (FJ.1748)   « Less

Silver Denarius of Emperor Caracalla - C.9971Origin: MediterraneanCirca: 210 AD to 213 ADCollection: NumismaticsStyle: RomanMedium: Silver.Caracalla was born April 4,188 in  More »

Silver Denarius of Emperor Caracalla - C.9971Origin: MediterraneanCirca: 210 AD to 213 ADCollection: NumismaticsStyle: RomanMedium: Silver.Caracalla was born April 4,188 in Lyon, where his father, Septimius Severus, was serving as governor of the province of Gallia Lugdunensis under Emperor Commodus. His name was changed from Lucius Septimius Bassianus to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus at the age of seven. The name change was a way of connecting the family of Severus to that of the Antonines. The nickname Caracalla was taken from the name of a type of cloak popularized by the emperor, but this nickname, originally derisive, was never used officially. From the time of his name change to Antoninus, Caracalla was the designated heir of Severus. Less than three years later he was proclaimed emperor, officially joining his father as co-rulers of the empire. At the age of 14, he was married to the daughter of the praetorian prefect Plautianus, but the teenager despised his wife. The marriage ended less than three years later and there were no children. Upon his father’s death in 211, Caracalla ruled the empire jointly with his brother, Geta, until he was murdered later the same year, leaving Caracalla in sole control at the age of 23. The year 212 saw a flurry of administrative reforms under the young emperor's leadership. Soldiers received increases in pay and in legal rights, but the most noteworthy change was the bestowal of Roman citizenship upon all free residents of the empire. Construction was also well underway on the magnificent baths in Rome that would bear the emperor's name. In 217, Caracalla was assassinated on the road back from his military campaigns against the Partians in the east. Although Caracalla remains a rather dubious figure, historians often overlook the energetic, reformist and even intellectual character of Caracalla's reign. The changes brought about in the little more than five years of Caracalla's sole rule would have long-lasting implications throughout the empire for generations to come.   « Less