Mauseus

Re-reading, for the first time in years, through my copy of Courtesans and Fishcakes, the Consuming Passions of Classical Athens (James Davi...

  My new ship tessera, Stannard 10.1 About twenty years ago I encountered my first two ship tesserae from Ostia in CNG sale 53, lots 1434-5....

I have recently been cultivating an interest in the coinage of Nabataea, centred on Petra and covering parts of North Arabia, the Transjorda...

Patience had finally paid off. Sitting in the garden with a cold cider on the hottest day of the year I think that after over 30 years I hav...

Finally got around to downloading this image of the Moon, taken by me on 6th May 2020. It was a so-called a "supermoon", the th...

I first posted on the weighing of late Roman and early Byzantine coins in May 2018. This post is an update on my collection of weights fr...

I have now uploaded the full collection of around 330 pieces, mostly British, as a PDF that can either be viewed online or downloaded. I...