Numismatics: always with the highest energy

Combined Classics Library@joliheroics.bsky.social · yesterday

Heatwave update! If you're thinking of coming into the library this afternoon, the temperatures are: First literature room: 29.3 degrees Second literature room: 28.9 degrees Archaeology: 29.8 degrees Numismatics: 30.6 degrees Please take care in this heat!

So, Moneda Ibérica *the book* exists! A phenomenal achievement by the authors.

AIO publishes all decrees of the deme Teithras and unknown demes, a document of Acharnai, and all Athenian inscriptions relating to Roman emperors from Augustus to Trajan and to the imperial cult. See them here: atticinscriptions.com/browse/bypub...

A research project on late Roman hoards is bringing artefacts from the past back to life - and now it's your turn. Our short story competition for 11-17 year olds invites young writers to imagine the story behind hidden treasure. Prizes for winning entries. Find out more: blogs.kent.ac.uk/hoards

Did you know, the MG Motor Company started in the garages that now form part of New College? On Saturday, a newly commissioned sculpture by British artist Paul Day was unveiled to commemorate the historic significance of the now Kimber Wing and captures the essence of the nascent MG cars.

Almost 20,000 Greek and Roman coins from @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social added to Nomisma (14K OCRE, 5K in the Oxford IRIS project). Here's an example with numerous coins, one of which is from an IGCH hoard. greekcoinage.org/iris/id/hyri.... Thanks @mmaliczowski.bsky.social for sending the data.

There are now "thumbs" on GAERHF "Time Scale" to select date range. Option click on right one to enter -8000 for about 10000 BP/8000 BCE. That's map shown here. Click on "palette" near top right and then "Threshold Slider" to adjust colormap. Try at gaerhf.org Grid at lower left to see all figures.

“The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency.” — NEH.gov The NEH has $207 million for FY2026. War in Iran? 1 billion per day. We go through 4.83 NEHs a day for what?

Dame Judi Dench! 🤣☠️

I'll be presenting virtually on AI & the Study of Antiquity, hosted by Rutgers, sometime around 4:30pm. I'll be presenting on natural language processing for improved searchability and some other projects on using computer vision for die studies. classics.rutgers.edu/ai-the-study...

Exquisite work in this thread

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

The Call for Papers for the 13th annual Nomisma/ECFN meeting in Bari is now open. 15-18 Sept 2026. Come and join us! www.13ecfn-nomisma.org/call-for-pap...

The amphitheater at Cyzicus

Tenedos, from Alexandria Troas

Proceedings of the joint ECFN-Nomisma in Sofia now published: bulgnj.com/index.php/e-...

Samothrace, seen from Aenus

Selymbria for New Year’s Eve.

The CHANGE project is in Istanbul next month, courtesy of the wonderful Pera Museum. Do join us: www.peramuseum.org/event/moneta...

Monetary CHANGE in Ancient Anatolia (630-30 BC)

CHANGE is an interdisciplinary project to research the monetary history of ancient Anatolia from the beginning of coinage in the 7th century to the absorption of the region by Rome circa 30 BC

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More Egyptian goodness in the OSAD series. Just in time for Christmas….

Interested in architecture on Roman Republican coins? All you have to do is keyword search. Using python natural language processing to reconcile descriptive concepts to Wikidata. These are results of temples, columns, altars, gates, etc. Expect more NLP results throughout our projects soon.

Hot off the press: CPI volume2

Some 50,000 Roman Republican coins have been migrated into CollectiveAccess for Roman Republican Die Project, with some updates to bibliographic references, provenance, and integrating coin hoard URIs to improve various functionality: numishare.blogspot.com/2025/11/upda...

Updates to RRDP specimens

At long last, we have migrated the objects accessible in the SITNAM public database into a CollectiveAccess back-end. SITNAM was initially...

numishare.blogspot.com

Ancient history job in Oxford: www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/st...

Minority representation on TV causes outrage Brilliant from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Scandanavian/Icelandic GAERHF thread.

Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure@gaerhf-bot.bsky.social · 10mo ago

First go at getting some Scandinavian and Icelandic "Viking Period" figures into GAERHF. 1: Female Sword Bearer from Hårby. C. 800. gaerhf.org#female-sword... #ArtHistory #GlobalArtHistory

Pot of gold! Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum! Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

A week today! - Our first research seminar of the year with Dr Simon Glenn on ‘The Bactrian Mirage: coins and history in Hellenistic Central Asia’ on 16 October, 17:15-18:30 UK time. More details in the thread below. Please note the change of on campus venue to Michael Sadler 1.01. All welcome!

Classics at Leeds@leedsclassics.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our research seminars resume soon with a talk from Dr Simon Glenn (British Museum/ Leeds) on ‘The Bactrian Mirage: coins and history in Hellenistic Central Asia’ on Thursday 16 October, 17:15-18:30 UK time (venue and online joining instructions below). All very welcome to attend!

Thanks to the fantastic work of the Warsaw team, Proceedings of Int Numismatic Congress are free to download here: Vol. I www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB... Vol. II www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB... vol. III www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB... vol. IV www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...

Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, 11–16.09.2022, Warsaw, Vol. i: Greek Numismatics | Warsaw Studies in Archaeology

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Demetrias (small promontory in the centre) at sunset