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Free attendance – online or in-person
Registration now open!

A conference designed specifically to broaden the field of numismatics and create opportunities for all to engage with coins, banknotes, tokens and medals in an inclusive and welcoming space.A full and exciting programme of talks is now 

live, giving an emphasis to the voices of women, people of colour, those from the LGBTQ+ community and anyone who has a passion for numismatics but has not necessarily found that existing forums for sharing their study, research or work have been the right place. Talks will be on a range of subjects as diverse as Roman, Indian, and Anglo-Scandinavian coinages, the part coins had to play in the creation of a modern Afghan state, and the history of collecting. There will also be a presentation and discussion on the celebration of queer lives on coinage – and much more!

Register here: 
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travel bursaries have been made available thanks to the generosity of the UK Numismatic Trust and the British Numismatic Society. The deadline for applications is the 

25th August:
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By ROGER BLAND

Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication 60, 2023

This book presents a detailed die-study of the issues of the mints of Antioch in Syria and Caesarea in Cappadocia from the reign of Gordian III (AD 238-44). The coinage of Antioch consisted of two series of radiates with Roman legends and four series of tetradrachms and 3,818 coins of Antioch and 1,312 silver and bronze coins of Caesarea are included in the die-study. All the dies are illustrated in 100 plates.

The study shows how to distinguish the radiates of Antioch from those of Rome and examines the relationship between radiates and tetradrachms of Antioch. The former coins have traditionally been classed as ‘Roman imperial’ and the latter as ‘Roman provincial’. The dies for the coinage of Caesarea were also produced by Antiochene engravers, which had not been noticed before.

Further chapters examine chronological problems, the metal content of the silver coins of Gordian’s reign (over a hundred analyses are published here for the first time), the evidence for their circulation in hoards and site finds and the historical events of Gordian’s reign. These findings are summarized in the conclusion, which sets the coinages of Antioch and Caesarea in their historical context.

Roger Bland is the outgoing President of the Royal Numismatic Society. He retired in 2015 as Keeper of the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory at the British Museum. 

548 pages + 100 plates, 1,414 illustrations in text. ISBN 978-0–901405–39–6

£80 (£60 to Fellows of the RNS)

Available from: Spink & Son, www.spinkbooks.com

Organised by Marcus Chin, Simon Glenn, and Leah Lazar

We are pleased to circulate the programme and abstracts for the Oxford Ancient History Sub-Faculty seminar series taking place in Trinity Term 2023 (April to June). All are welcome.

All meetings will take place at 4pm on Tuesdays in the Lecture Theatre of the Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU. Papers will be followed by informal discussion over drinks. 

The seminar series is generously supported by the Royal Numismatic Society, the Classics Faculty Board, and the Craven Committee.

Programme:

Week 1 (April 25^th)

Véronique Chankowski, Université Lyon 2/ Ecole Française d’Athènes: ‘Observing monetary changes in the Mediterranean from Delos: elements for a new narrative’.

Week 2 (May 2^nd)

Catherine Grandjean, Université de Tours: ‘Monetization and the History of Hellenistic Greece’.

Week 3 (May 9^th)

Marcus Chin, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford: ‘Beyond the Attalids: dynastic rulership, coinage, and regional authority in Hellenistic Anatolia’.

Week 4 (May 16^th)

Julien Olivier, Bibliothèque nationale de France: ‘Managing coinage. Creating, (re-melting) and reforming Ptolemaic gold and silver coinage from the 4th to the 1st century BC’. 

Week 5 (May 23^rd)

Simon Glenn, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: ‘The Bactrian Mirage: coins and the economy of a “minor” Hellenistic kingdom’.

Week 6 (May 30^th)

Zosia Archibald, University of Liverpool: ‘Money and Economy in Thrace: Pistiros and its context in south-eastern Europe’.

Week 7 (June 6^th)

Suzanne Frey-Kupper, University of Warwick: ‘Hellenistic coinage in Sicily as part of other material culture, from the late fourth century to the first century BC’.

Week 8 (June 13^th)

Selene Psoma, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: ‘The Alexanders issued by Greek Cities of Western Asia Minor: a Reappraisal’.

In celebration of the British Numismatic Society’s decision to award SP 58 its North Book Prize for 2022, Spink are delighted to offer a discount of £25 on every copy sold (RRP £150), with an additional 25% off for RNS and BNS members, until the end of December 2022!

Click here for the Spink Books website. When checking out, use code: SWE0FCM0BBG1

The Royal Numismatic Society is pleased to announce four bursaries worth £500 each to assist students with travel and meal expenses associated with the British School at Athens Postgraduate Numismatic course in 2023. Potential applicants should indicate they wish to apply for a grant on the application form to the BSA – for more information on the school and applying see https://www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/greek-numismatics/.