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Sunday, 21 June 2026
A Tarentine pun
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I'm not a collector of larger Greek silver coins but I do have one stater of Tarentum in Calabria, southern Italy. I acquired it because...
Monday, 8 June 2026
A unique denarius of Maximianus I
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Maximianus, denarius, Hercules at rest, Ticinum mint, c.290 AD, the anticipated defeat of Carausius (?), RIC - I have in my trays a seemingl...
Friday, 29 May 2026
Gouges on Roman republican coins
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Denarius, TI CLAUD TI.F AP.N, c.79 BC, Crawford 383, with two distinct gouges, one broad, the other less so, across the horses on the revers...
Sunday, 12 April 2026
Oriuna
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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...
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Two third century statues as coin types
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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...
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
A Carausius coin at the Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Sir Thomas More Sir Thomas More, the Tudor politician, was also a coin collector. In 1518 he was corresponding with Bude, complimenting him ...
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...
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