Mauseus

When the late Dr Mead’s collection came up for auction in 1755 it did not include the “Oriuna” denarius of Carausius,  that had previously b...

In the early 1970s Konrad Kraft published a work on Roman civic coins that identified a number of cities that shared obverse dies. Althoug...

August 2022 is almost a century since the hoard of gold coins, medallions and other items was discovered. Although the 1922 Arras hoard (als...

I want to return to something that at I've posted about before and that is what the Romans actually called their coins...

  One feature of he Moneta Imperii Romani (MIR) volume that covers Gallienus is the tabular catalogue arrangement...

  Sometimes the seemingly most mundane coins can give you a door into the history of the time. Indeed, when professor Grierson was asked abo...

Last year I managed to acquire an example of a coin that had been on my “bucket list” for many years. The coin in question is variously desc...