Mauseus

I got a "bucket list" coin in late 2024. It's a Carausius antoninianus of the RSR mint with the legend FORTVNA AVG (ex Malcolm...

In the book Monuments of Ancient Rome as Coin Type by P V Hill he speculates that the accusative case, rarely used for coin reverses, sugges...

Sir Thomas More Sir Thomas More, the Tudor politician, was also a coin collector. In 1518 he was corresponding with Bude, complimenting him ...

On 16 January 1750, almost exactly 276 years ago, the Reverend William Stukeley wrote to his old friend Maurice Johnson lamenting the gift o...

The Bramham Moor hoard from Withy and Ryall Some time before 1756 a small hoard of 12 silver pennies were discovered on Bramham Moor (West Y...

The Gallic usurper Postumus ceased striking sestertii and double sestertii in the year 263. Unofficial mints continued the production of dou...

With the various MoUs regulating international trade in cultural objects and the UNESCO convention provenance or pedigree is playing an ever...