Hookmoor
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Lee Toone - Specialist in Romano-British coinage, co-author of The London Mint of Constantius and Constantine, second edition just published. Yorkshire, UK.
https://britannianummaria2024.blogspot.com
https://britannianummaria2024.blogspot.com
We have now uploaded a supplement to the second edition of LMCC II which is available here :
britannianummaria2024.blogspot.com/p/lmcc-2-sup...
Further entries are also in the pipeline.
britannianummaria2024.blogspot.com/p/lmcc-2-sup...
Further entries are also in the pipeline.
October 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We have now uploaded a supplement to the second edition of LMCC II which is available here :
britannianummaria2024.blogspot.com/p/lmcc-2-sup...
Further entries are also in the pipeline.
britannianummaria2024.blogspot.com/p/lmcc-2-sup...
Further entries are also in the pipeline.
An interesting limestone lithographic plate featuring coins and tokens. One of the images has been reversed to show a positive version. The central feature shows an image of Nostell Priory.
October 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
An interesting limestone lithographic plate featuring coins and tokens. One of the images has been reversed to show a positive version. The central feature shows an image of Nostell Priory.
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The Melsonby Hoard was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021 & subsequently declared Treasure. The Yorkshire Museum aim to raise £500,000 to acquire & conserve the hoard, keeping it in a public collection. Help keep the hoard in Yorkshire & donate today at: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...
Save The Melsonby Hoard - Yorkshire Museum
Help us save, conserve and share the Melsonby Hoard – an incredible treasure of 900 Iron Age objects recently unearthed in North Yorkshire
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
March 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The Melsonby Hoard was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021 & subsequently declared Treasure. The Yorkshire Museum aim to raise £500,000 to acquire & conserve the hoard, keeping it in a public collection. Help keep the hoard in Yorkshire & donate today at: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...
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All the replies/discussion on this are fascinating, thanks!
The Melsonby assemblage (not a hoard). 28 (smallish) wheels and 14 harnesses, so potentially seven 4-wheeled carts (2 ponies each). If right then Early Iron Age tradition, as vessel might suggest. Out of fashion in Gaul by 450 BC, slightly later here perhaps.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Iron age hoard found in North Yorkshire could change Britain’s history
More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years ago
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
All the replies/discussion on this are fascinating, thanks!
Devil’s Arrows at Boroughbridge ….
March 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Devil’s Arrows at Boroughbridge ….
It’s out …. Sam Moorhead’s RIC volume on Carausius and Allectus is now available from Spink!
March 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
It’s out …. Sam Moorhead’s RIC volume on Carausius and Allectus is now available from Spink!
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Newly entered on CHRE: Exciting new hoard found in the Netherlands (Bunnik 2023), dating from the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, mixing Roman denarii and aurei with staters of Cunobelinus!
#numismatics
➡️ chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/21255
➡️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#numismatics
➡️ chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/21255
➡️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Hoard of coins dating from Roman conquest of Britain found near Utrecht
Archaeologists hail very rare discovery of buried coins that suggest details of how military campaign was fought
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Newly entered on CHRE: Exciting new hoard found in the Netherlands (Bunnik 2023), dating from the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, mixing Roman denarii and aurei with staters of Cunobelinus!
#numismatics
➡️ chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/21255
➡️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#numismatics
➡️ chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/21255
➡️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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🪙Archaeology enthusiasts Reinier Koelink and Gert-Jan Messelaar discovered a rare hoard of 404 Roman and British coins near Bunnik, Utrecht, shedding new light on the Roman conquest of Britain.
Video. Rare Roman-British coin hoard found in the Netherlands
Video. Archaeology enthusiasts Reinier Koelink and Gert-Jan Messelaar discovered a rare hoard of 404 Roman and British coins near Bunnik, Utrecht, shedding new light on the Roman conquest of Britain.
www.euronews.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🪙Archaeology enthusiasts Reinier Koelink and Gert-Jan Messelaar discovered a rare hoard of 404 Roman and British coins near Bunnik, Utrecht, shedding new light on the Roman conquest of Britain.
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This photo gives a better idea of the coins' scale. It also includes many of the other coins we'll be covering in the talk. They date from the 12th century to 1707.
January 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This photo gives a better idea of the coins' scale. It also includes many of the other coins we'll be covering in the talk. They date from the 12th century to 1707.
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From left to right: groat of James III (1484-88); 1575 dated £20 of James VI, the largest circulating hammered gold coin minted in the British Isles & a testoon of Mary Queen of Scots minted soon after her return to Scotland in 1561.
January 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
From left to right: groat of James III (1484-88); 1575 dated £20 of James VI, the largest circulating hammered gold coin minted in the British Isles & a testoon of Mary Queen of Scots minted soon after her return to Scotland in 1561.
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I'm giving an online talk on the Lord Stewartby Collection (the largest collection of Scottish coins ever assembled by a private individual) next Friday at 1pm. We'll cover the collection's background and examine many of its highlights. Here's the link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-foc...
Friday Focus - The Lord Stewartby Collection of Scottish Coins
Explore the highlights of The Lord Stewartby Collection of Scottish Coins, held in The Hunterian collections.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'm giving an online talk on the Lord Stewartby Collection (the largest collection of Scottish coins ever assembled by a private individual) next Friday at 1pm. We'll cover the collection's background and examine many of its highlights. Here's the link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-foc...
Given George Orwell’s interests, it will be a great shame if this is a non-circulating coin that is only available to the general public at a “collectors’ premium”. Two pounds is Seven Pounds Fifty …..
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
George Orwell to be honoured on new £2 coin by Royal Mint
Author of Nineteen Eighty-Four to be commemorated on coin to coincide with 75th anniversary of his death
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Given George Orwell’s interests, it will be a great shame if this is a non-circulating coin that is only available to the general public at a “collectors’ premium”. Two pounds is Seven Pounds Fifty …..
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Q. What's the difference between a coin hoard recovered by archaeologists rather than metal detecting?
A. Context
How many organic containers (like this paper filled parcel) are lost to blind digging rather than systematic recovery?
A. Context
How many organic containers (like this paper filled parcel) are lost to blind digging rather than systematic recovery?
January 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Q. What's the difference between a coin hoard recovered by archaeologists rather than metal detecting?
A. Context
How many organic containers (like this paper filled parcel) are lost to blind digging rather than systematic recovery?
A. Context
How many organic containers (like this paper filled parcel) are lost to blind digging rather than systematic recovery?
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Hoard of 11th Century coins found at Sizewell C
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hoard of 11th Century coins found at Suffolk Sizewell C site
Archaeologists believe the coins belonged to a local figure who was trying to hide his money.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Hoard of 11th Century coins found at Sizewell C
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The 'Yorkshire Numismatic Society' Programme for 2025 is now posted on the website at yorkshirenumismatic.blogspot.com
Yorkshire Numismatic Society
Founded in 1909 and affiliated to the British Association of Numismatic Societies since 1953.
yorkshirenumismatic.blogspot.com
January 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The 'Yorkshire Numismatic Society' Programme for 2025 is now posted on the website at yorkshirenumismatic.blogspot.com
A special coin this one! A Viking imitation found in the Baltic states. It copies a radiate helmet type of Aethelred which itself copies a radiate military bust type of Constantine the Great that was struck in London c. AD 312. That’s a lot of history in a battered and pieced bit of silver …
December 31, 2024 at 10:16 AM
A special coin this one! A Viking imitation found in the Baltic states. It copies a radiate helmet type of Aethelred which itself copies a radiate military bust type of Constantine the Great that was struck in London c. AD 312. That’s a lot of history in a battered and pieced bit of silver …
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And here's more for the centenary: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
BBC Radio 4 - Shipping Forecast - The Shipping Forecast Centenary
A collection of programmes and features celebrating 100 years of the Shipping Forecast.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 31, 2024 at 8:54 AM
And here's more for the centenary: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
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#2025 will be the 100th birthday of the #ShippingForecast. Here's my paean to that institution: norseandviking.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-...
The Poetry of the Shipping Forecast
Britannia Designs, Dartmouth Despite being the world's greatest landlubber, I have always loved the Met Office shipping forecast , esp...
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December 31, 2024 at 8:50 AM
#2025 will be the 100th birthday of the #ShippingForecast. Here's my paean to that institution: norseandviking.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-...
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BBC article featuring some lovely new Norfolk metal detected finds discussed by Dr Helen Geake. Clear instructions on reporting finds too, it can be done!
On the fifth day of Christmas: Norfolk's five gold rings
A treasure expert says a carol reminds her of her job, which involves looking at lots of gold rings.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2024 at 5:07 AM
BBC article featuring some lovely new Norfolk metal detected finds discussed by Dr Helen Geake. Clear instructions on reporting finds too, it can be done!
Please repost as the Roman remains and museum under the pub need to be protected and kept open so the public can continue to visit.
Concerns over plan to revamp pub on Roman ruins www.bbc.com/news/article...
Concerns over plan to revamp pub on Roman ruins www.bbc.com/news/article...
Roman Bath: Concerns over plans to revamp York pub
An 8,000-name petition raises fears York's Roman Bath pub could be turned into a "sports bar".
www.bbc.com
December 29, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Please repost as the Roman remains and museum under the pub need to be protected and kept open so the public can continue to visit.
Concerns over plan to revamp pub on Roman ruins www.bbc.com/news/article...
Concerns over plan to revamp pub on Roman ruins www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Happy festival of Sol Invictus to all those who celebrate!
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
December 25, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Happy festival of Sol Invictus to all those who celebrate!
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK of AKAM Coin Series issued by Kolkata Mint. More Info: https://bit.ly/3P44JQ4
December 22, 2024 at 7:02 AM
EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK of AKAM Coin Series issued by Kolkata Mint. More Info: https://bit.ly/3P44JQ4
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Happy #Solstice! The Nebra Sky Disc is considered to be the oldest known material representation of cosmic phenomena in the world, dating around 1600 BC.
On display at Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle.
Further information: www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/en/nebra-sky...
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On display at Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle.
Further information: www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/en/nebra-sky...
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December 21, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Happy #Solstice! The Nebra Sky Disc is considered to be the oldest known material representation of cosmic phenomena in the world, dating around 1600 BC.
On display at Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle.
Further information: www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/en/nebra-sky...
📷 me
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On display at Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle.
Further information: www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/en/nebra-sky...
📷 me
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