Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Nick Vaneerdewegh and I discuss the tetradrachm of Aetna - the "Mona Lisa of Numismatics" - and some of the other rare and fascinating pieces in the Brussels Coin Cabinet.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @scenicroutestothepast
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:37 Brussels Coin Cabinet
3:36 Aetna Tetradrachm
11:16 Naxos Tetradrachm
16:20 Syracuse Tetradrachm
22:35 Syracuse Decadrachm
27:32 Panticapaeum Stater
35:12 Amphipolis Tetradrachm
40:08 Athens Decadrachm
47:24 Athens Stater of Lachares
53:35 Olympia Stater
59:12 Augustus Aureus
1:06:25 Nero Sestertius
1:14:52 Valentinian I Medallion
In this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Nick Vaneerdewegh and I discuss the tetradrachm of Aetna - the "Mona Lisa of Numismatics" - and some of the other rare and fascinating pieces in the Brussels Coin Cabinet.
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @scenicroutestothepast
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:37 Brussels Coin Cabinet
3:36 Aetna Tetradrachm
11:16 Naxos Tetradrachm
16:20 Syracuse Tetradrachm
22:35 Syracuse Decadrachm
27:32 Panticapaeum Stater
35:12 Amphipolis Tetradrachm
40:08 Athens Decadrachm
47:24 Athens Stater of Lachares
53:35 Olympia Stater
59:12 Augustus Aureus
1:06:25 Nero Sestertius
1:14:52 Valentinian I Medallion










