Roman

Each year the British Numismatic Society awards one or two bursaries to students allowing them to have a brief period of hands-on training in a museum. This year’s award went to Will Farrant, whose account of his experience working on the Frome Hoard at the British Museum is provided here. Click this link to read Will’s story.

This article provides a ‘whistle-stop’ examination of the coinage of the British usurper Carausius illustrating its crude beginnings and highlighting the probable use of ‘Artisans’ formerly producing the ‘Barbarous Radiates’ that filled the gap created by a dearth of Official Coinage in the 20+ years since the fall of the Gallo-Roman Empire in AD 273. That Carausius’ Administration succeeded in stabilising the money supply and improving the quality of the coinage is clearly a triumph of organisation, and is a suitable epitaph to an extraordinary individual.