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Saturday, 1 January 2022

The demise of a Yorkshire token issuer

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Visited Scarborough the other day. Sad to see the Luna Park funfair site empty, but hopefully it is only temporary. Apparently the Tuby fami...
Monday, 20 December 2021

The SPQR mint(s) of Gallienus and Claudius II

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  The latter half of the third century saw the number of Roman mints beginning to expand, and, at the same time, the number of mints strikin...
Monday, 29 November 2021

The denarii of AD 268

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After AD 238 issues of the denarius were sporadic. There were two significant issues around 240 under Gordian III, one of which was associat...
Tuesday, 5 October 2021

The name of the Roman silver radiate

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I suspect that if I were to pose the question “what is the Roman coin denomination pictured above” there would be large number of response...
Thursday, 26 August 2021

The recording history of What's The New Mary Jane

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This was supposed to be a lockdown project but got rather delayed, not least because I couldn’t face actually immersing myself in this chaot...
Wednesday, 28 July 2021

A Britannia dupondius of Antoninus Pius

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RIC 930 Most people are familiar with the Roman as of Antoninus Pius with the reverse legend BRITANNIA COS IIII SC (RIC 934). However, fewer...
Tuesday, 1 June 2021

A limesfalschung as of Severus

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This as of Septimius Severus from my collection is not all it may first appear. It is an ancient cast copy, weighing in at 4.3 grammes, comp...