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Friday, 24 October 2025

Unusual Abassid fulus identified after 35 years!

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Some thirty-five years ago I had a desire to get a better understanding of non European early mediaeval coins. A friend gifted me a dozen, o...
Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Two large gold medallions of Carausius

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Reading the 25th anniversary volume of The Asylum, the journal of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society, I came across an article titled "...
Sunday, 15 June 2025

The Tropaeum Traiani of Adamklissi as a coin type of Trajan

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Rescued from my junk bag and winning no prizes in the beauty contest (devastated on the obverse by corrosion, sadly) I think this is an inte...
Sunday, 25 May 2025

The funeral of Septimius Severus (again)

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Septimius Severus, denarius, Rome mint, RIC 191f I have recently been gifted this wonderful Consecratio denarius of Septimius Severus with t...
Sunday, 4 May 2025

The four denarius piece

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I was recently involved in a discussion about a small tetrarchic laureate and the question of it's denomination and that then had me sea...
Tuesday, 11 March 2025

The death of Constantius I Chlorus at York

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Deified Constantius I, AE nummus, RIC VI (Lon 110) Unlike the death and cremation of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus at York on the 4th ...
Sunday, 13 October 2024

A Kolophon hemiobol reattributed to Magnesia

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The ancient city of Kolophon (sometimes spelt Colophon in the literature), is located in Ionia, Asia Minor. The ruins are situated to the s...