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Wednesday, 14 January 2026

Dr Mead's Allectus indiscretion **updated**

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On 16 January 1750, almost exactly 276 years ago, the Reverend William Stukeley wrote to his old friend Maurice Johnson lamenting the gift o...
Friday, 5 December 2025

The largest Henry II coin hoard (until the Tealby hoard)

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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...
Thursday, 20 November 2025

Postumus GERMANICVS MAX V reverse

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The Gallic usurper Postumus ceased striking sestertii and double sestertii in the year 263. Unofficial mints continued the production of dou...
Monday, 10 November 2025

An Aurelian antoninianus with a 1936 pedigree

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