Publication Day! The INC Warsaw Proceedings are now available (open access), and I have a paper on Roman republican control marks and recut dies (with @profyarrow.bsky.social and Lucia Carbone). #numismatics doi.org/10.1484/M.WS...

These are the specimens cited and illustrated by Abdy. I can email you a pdf if you want!

Found today somewhat by chance an obverse die link between the sextantes of four (!) different Roman republican coin series: RRC 188 (OPEIMI), 190 (OPEI), 191 (VAL), and 194 (3rd anchor); there are two other shared dies but only this one is used for all four series #ancient #numismatics

I guess I could also be more specific, basically I'm wondering if there is any chance the symbol on this coin (RRC 384, s. 155) is a bird house. It looks a lot like a modern bird house but I do not think I've ever seen a bird house in Roman art...

And for fun, a few choice memes from the cited Instagram account

In honor of Cattelan’s Comedian being (yet again) in the news, I’ll share these first pages of my dissertation on the creation of value for artworks. (FYI my dissertation is actually on the value of Roman silver tableware)

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/a...

Apologies for this

Admittedly it’s clearer in the BM’s own website where the job title and department are actually in a row (different job same dept)

My cats when someone suggests that animals aren't meant to be pets