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Thursday, 14 December 2023

The VSV denarii of Aurelian and Severina

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Reading (again) Cathy King’s paper on denarii and quinarii in the late third century in the 1978 Sutherland festschrift she observes that ...
Thursday, 30 November 2023

Gordian III's Adventus coins, Antioch and Rome

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Roger Bland’s recent book, The Coinage of Gordian III from Antioch and Caesarea (2023), a revision of his 1991 PhD, presents a catalogue and...
Thursday, 21 September 2023

Eastern Severan denarii: mint reattribution

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A few years ago, after reading Gitler and Ponting's monograph on chemical analyses of Severan denarii, I began to suspect that the easte...
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...