Associate Professor in Classics at Warwick, Numismatist, Tokenista. she/her
Clare Rowan
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Nice to see an ex student quoted in this article!
Well, this Odyssey popcorn bucket will make a fun die roller to match w/my Colosseum bucket, if remarkably ill-suited for its intended function. Are the Greeks stacked on top of each other like a cheerleading pyramid? Who Gets To Be The Head? (Obvs Agamemnon wants it, but..) Is Philoctetes the arse?
This was a great conference! We hosted a Watch Party with @lulgalleries.bsky.social volunteer token cataloguers!
@britnumsoc.bsky.social
When you work in an Arts building.
Unbelievable job title alert
@ancient-tokens.bsky.social #numismatics
#tokens
A whole website dedicated to the tokens (anc. gr. symbola) of Classical Athens and anything related to it ....
tokensofathens.com
Happy to hear your comments!
Retrieved this from the cabinets for an enquirer the other day and couldn’t resist sharing. An absolutely fabulous three-quarter facing bust of the usurper Postumus on this aureus, struck at his mint of Trier, Germany, c. AD 264.
Three heads jugate on this lead piece in The British Museum (with Egyptian headdresses?) Not sure what's on the other side, but happy to take suggestions or parallels here! Something Egyptian? www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
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