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 Writing up the description of a coin the other evening I realised that I did not know how the Antioch mint coins of Claudius II were arrang...

Why is it that most of the old metal Scrabble tiles I come across are for the letter N? Only joking! I’ve just taken possession of another...

Towards the end of 2020 I was able to acquire a coin type that had been on my wish list for a long time but had always been out of reach, ...

During the lockdown last year I took the opportunity to photograph and catalogue my collection of machine tokens. This year I have taken the...

  I have recently acquired a 2 nd /3 rd century intaglio in dark blue glass paste in imitation of niccolo featuring Eros riding a dolphin o...

  Many years ago I acquired a fragment of Roman North African redware from the 4th century AD. Part of the moulded design featured a sheep. ...

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