Education & History

You have cleaned your late Roman bronze coin and can now make out letters around the portrait. They look like a jumble of consonants — DNVALENTINIANVSPFAVG — but this seemingly impenetrable string fol…

When you sort through a lot of uncleaned late Roman bronze coins, one of the first things you notice is the variation in size. Some pieces are as large as a 10p coin; others are barely bigger than a s…

You have just received your lot of uncleaned late Roman bronze coins — small, dark, encrusted discs that once passed through the hands of soldiers and citizens in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. Somewhe…