Clare Rowan
@ancient-tokens.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Classics at Warwick, Numismatist, Tokenista. she/her
If anyone is interested, at the next Money and Medals online talk I'll be discussing how to engage school groups with coins and tokens (i.e. numismatic collections). 26 November, 12.30-1.30pm online, more info available here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dfc5df...
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
If anyone is interested, at the next Money and Medals online talk I'll be discussing how to engage school groups with coins and tokens (i.e. numismatic collections). 26 November, 12.30-1.30pm online, more info available here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dfc5df...
Random numismatic objects found in the course of a data search.... a Hollywood 'swing club' member token (?). numismatics.org/collection/1...
October 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Random numismatic objects found in the course of a data search.... a Hollywood 'swing club' member token (?). numismatics.org/collection/1...
Are Roman hippopotami the best hippopotami? Below a Roman token showing a lizard and one delightful rendered hippopotamus (the tail! 😍) Now in the British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
October 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Are Roman hippopotami the best hippopotami? Below a Roman token showing a lizard and one delightful rendered hippopotamus (the tail! 😍) Now in the British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
I had cause to be reminded of what I still consider to be @carlosfnorena.bsky.social 's greatest ever twitter thread. I just read it out to a room of postgrads. All agreed.
October 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I had cause to be reminded of what I still consider to be @carlosfnorena.bsky.social 's greatest ever twitter thread. I just read it out to a room of postgrads. All agreed.
My neighbour's sunflower is totally giving Muppet Show or alien vibes.
September 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
My neighbour's sunflower is totally giving Muppet Show or alien vibes.
The first Augustus themed coin box of enlarged 3D printed replicas is off the manufacturing line and ready to go into a school next week! 🙌 a joint project between classics and design studies at Warwick. ☺️
September 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The first Augustus themed coin box of enlarged 3D printed replicas is off the manufacturing line and ready to go into a school next week! 🙌 a joint project between classics and design studies at Warwick. ☺️
some of the lead tokens from Rome are really wonderful quality. This piece in the BM shows an empty quadric facing front, and a ram (associated with Mercury) on the other side. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
September 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
some of the lead tokens from Rome are really wonderful quality. This piece in the BM shows an empty quadric facing front, and a ram (associated with Mercury) on the other side. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
when you've got all your herms lined up in a row! 🙌 With bonus stick figure 'weary Hercules' on the other side. Token now in British Museum (Rost. 2491), www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
September 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
when you've got all your herms lined up in a row! 🙌 With bonus stick figure 'weary Hercules' on the other side. Token now in British Museum (Rost. 2491), www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
in today's 'where Rostovtzeff feared to tread in the British Museum' we have this piece - two male figures on either side of a very large lit altar and on the other side two figures in some sort of structure..... if only it weren't so worn! www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
September 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
in today's 'where Rostovtzeff feared to tread in the British Museum' we have this piece - two male figures on either side of a very large lit altar and on the other side two figures in some sort of structure..... if only it weren't so worn! www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
genuinely I look at the reverse and all I can see is 😅
September 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
genuinely I look at the reverse and all I can see is 😅
ok on this token a nice goddess type figure seated left and on the other side...... ????????????????????????????????????????
Any guesses welcome! www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Any guesses welcome! www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
September 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
ok on this token a nice goddess type figure seated left and on the other side...... ????????????????????????????????????????
Any guesses welcome! www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Any guesses welcome! www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
a token design that Rostovtzeff overlooked, now in the British Museum. The legend reads FOR (a legend also found with a palm branch and palm tree) and the other side of the token shows a figure walking with a sack or something on their shoulder. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
September 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
a token design that Rostovtzeff overlooked, now in the British Museum. The legend reads FOR (a legend also found with a palm branch and palm tree) and the other side of the token shows a figure walking with a sack or something on their shoulder. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Scenes from Bournemouth.
August 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Scenes from Bournemouth.
I do love the 'stick figures' on Roman tokens and why here we have stick figure Mercury! Yes, you can just make out his caduceus there in his right hand! Piece now in the British Museum, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... (Rost. 2716 for those playing along at home).
August 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I do love the 'stick figures' on Roman tokens and why here we have stick figure Mercury! Yes, you can just make out his caduceus there in his right hand! Piece now in the British Museum, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... (Rost. 2716 for those playing along at home).
another fun token puzzle from the BM which never made it into Rostovtzeff's catalogue - a male figure with a lagobolon (hunter?) + probably an F (feliciter) before. X countermark on the other side over what might have originally been been a scorpion or caduceus? www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i...
August 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
another fun token puzzle from the BM which never made it into Rostovtzeff's catalogue - a male figure with a lagobolon (hunter?) + probably an F (feliciter) before. X countermark on the other side over what might have originally been been a scorpion or caduceus? www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i...
quite an odd token in the British Museum collection here - diamond shaped, it appears to show a fist clutching a spear? Other suggestions and parallels welcome!
August 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
quite an odd token in the British Museum collection here - diamond shaped, it appears to show a fist clutching a spear? Other suggestions and parallels welcome!