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Commemorating Rome on the Danube
Interesting press release from the Austrian Mint: For some five centuries the River Danube formed an essential part of ancient Rome’s northern border against the barbarian tribes of Germania. The...
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Non-Destructive Analysis of Coinage
Interesting … Demonstrating that chemistry sometimes can inform history, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Colorado College and Mount Saint Mary’s University...
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Massive Roman Coin Find from Wiltshire
What will likely be a pile of coverage just starting on this one … here’s the incipit what the Telegraph says: David Crisp, a 63-year-old hospital chef, located the 52,503 coins in a single...
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Wired Gets All Wired Up About a Denarius
I’m sure most of you have seen this — it’s been making the rounds these past couple of days — from Wired: *This one features the Moon driving her chariot over a housefly. *I can’t doubt that this made...
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Computed Tomography and Roman Coins (mostly)
Interesting press release from Southampton which has been making the rounds of the news outlets in various forms … here’s the first three-quarters or so: Archaeologists and engineers from the...
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Some Online Projects of Interest to Classicists
A few items that are ‘project related’ have been laying in my mailbox for various lengths of time and it seems useful to gather them together in one post. First, a tip ‘o the pileus to Charles Jones...
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Bulgarian Coin Hoard
From Novinite … sounds like one we’ll be hearing more about (hopefully): A team of Bulgarian archaeologists has found a coin treasure from the 3rd century BC near the southeastern-most Bulgarian Black...
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Roman Republic Numismatic Database Project
Saw this mentioned on the Classicists list … the folks at UWarwick are putting together something which will, no doubt, be very useful … here’s a bit from the introductory blurb: Work on provincial...
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Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic Online
This one’s been hitting all my social media sources and a few lists as well … here’s a description from the page: Coin hoards of the Roman Republic Online (CHRR Online) is a database of Roman...
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Follow Up: Antony and Cleopatra Coin from Bethsaida
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a report about a nice Antony and Cleopatra coin which had been found at Bethsaida last year (Antony + Cleopatra Coin from Bethsaida!). The article wasn’t accompanied...
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Also Seen: Real Roman Women on Coins
Interesting feature over at Coin Week … here are the first couple of paragraphs as a bit of a tease: Much like Americans, Republican Romans had a deep-rooted prejudice against depicting living people...
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Roman Hoard from near Kalingrad
From the Voice of Russia: Archeologists from the Sambian expedition of the Russian Institute of Archeology have found a unique collection of Roman coins dating back to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD in...
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Making Fake Roman Coins in 1st Century India (!)
Very interesting item from the Deccan Herald: For those who think financial fraud or circulating fake currencies is a modern day phenomenon, an ancient Roman coin mould on display at the Department of...
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testing blogsy
Just seeing if this might be an alternative platform when I'm away from my laptop … BBC News – Gold and silver traces 'may be in Jersey coin hoard' … hopefully I'll properly blog this one later … The...
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CJ-Online Review ~ The Hellenistic World. Using Coins as Sources
The Hellenistic World. Using Coins as Sources. By Peter Thonemann. Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxxii + 232. Paper, $34.99. ISBN...
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