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In March 2000 the catalogue for CNG sale 53 arrived. Lots 1434 and 1435 were two curious, small, uniface square AE pieces with a galley/rowi...

In 2005 Koray Konuk, the authority on Cilician coinage, identified a new location for the production of silver coin, Latmos. Latmos is n...

We are always encouraged to specialise in numismatic collection and study. That can, however, lead to a blinkered approach in interpretation...

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...