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Thursday, 10 August 2023

The Romano-British coins in the Thesaurus of Oiselius

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I've just put a note on my Carausius and Allectus website (link to the full site left). It's about the Romano-British coins in the T...
Friday, 28 July 2023

The type specimen for Carausius RIC 914

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Whilst reconciling old coin tickets I have for coins from the Blackmoor hoard sales with the two sale catalogues (both referenced in the cat...
Saturday, 8 July 2023

The 1879 Beachy Head hoard

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I recently picked up a small pamphlet or off-print, the source of which is unclear that relates to a third century coin find from Roman Br...
Tuesday, 27 June 2023

A new Eastern mint for Probus and the Saturninus revolt

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Probus, antoninianus, unidentified new Eastern mint At the start of the reign of the emperor Probus (276-82) there were three Asian mints st...
Thursday, 18 May 2023

Token sextantes of Minturnae from the Second Punic War

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In 2012 I acquired two Roman sextantes that clearly did not fit into the arrangement of Crawford in his 1974 work Roman Republican Coinage (...
Tuesday, 28 March 2023

Shipping tessarae from Ostia

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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...
Thursday, 9 March 2023

Tetartemoria of Latmos, Cilicia

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