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You know what makes great content? COINS (& let me tell you, I am shit at doing it myself) join the team, we are very nice!

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A very nice numismatic programme from Numisma (Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies). Times are all Australian Sydney time. 👍

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When your collaborators at the 3D printing machine at WMG paid attention to what the curator was telling them and hand back your prints in an appropriately labelled bag. 😂

A picture of 3D prints of the gold Ptolemaic issues of Ptolemy II and his wife/sister, next to a plastic bag labelled INCEST

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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process.

photo of Nicole Kidman looking incredibly joyful and free after her divorce from Tom Cruise was finalised

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Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Every bit of this 22 part post is worth reading!

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Well, national emergency alarm system working well....

Warwickshire fire and rescue service Facebook post that reads "You will have received a national emergency alert about wild fires. This was a request to call 999 IF you spot a wildfire or if there is an emergency. Please do not call 999 to check what's going on. The advice is in the text. Thank you."

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Super nice rendering of a reef knot (Hercules knot) on this token in the British Museum; the fabric means it's probably Athenian. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

a lead token in the British Museum which shows a right hand holding corn-ears and a tantalising (but ultimately illegible to me) legend in a wreath on the other side. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the next Money and Medals Network online talks is tomorrow, 12.30-1.30pm BST! Wendy Scott, from the British Museum, will be talking about Identifying Late SaxonN Pennies, 978-1066. Sign up below! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...

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Eleanor Ghey @eleanorghey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

What can hoards reveal about life in post-Roman Britain? A @ukri.org AHRC funded project exploring the last Roman hoards deposited in Britain is reshaping what we know about 5th century society. Discover the research and learn more about hoards in museums across the UK here blogs.kent.ac.uk/hoards

Silver coins on a pink background
Image copyright The Trustees of the British Museum

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Too hot even for Augustus in the BM galleries today. You’d think all that time buried beneath that temple in Sudan would have prepared him for the discomfort of a British summer.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Colleagues at Exeter have asked me to circulate their petition as widely as possible: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Big day @lulgalleries.bsky.social today as we hosted our first @money-and-medals.bsky.social event!!! Hands-on, DIY solutions to issues - using Vivak for mounts, sink-mounting broken coins & hacking an Axiel lighting set up! Plus talks from @leedsmuseums.bsky.social & @yorkarchaeology.bsky.social

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Classical Civilisation Shrewsbury College @classicsshrewsbury.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Nice to see an ex student quoted in this article!

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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?

A plastic rearing wooden horse with popcorn spilling out of its open abdomen. The Official Nolan Odyssey Popcorn Bucket.

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Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This was a great conference! We hosted a Watch Party with @lulgalleries.bsky.social volunteer token cataloguers! @britnumsoc.bsky.social

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Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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.

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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Unbelievable job title alert

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Mairi Gkikaki @greeknumismatics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@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!

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

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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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

the next online Money and Medals Network Talk will be on the Medallic Portraits of Sir Winston Churchill, given by Chris Gallacher of the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social on 27 May at 2pm GMT. Find out more and sign up here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...

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Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A move from 5 Colleges to 3 Faculties is not just a tidying exercise. Restructures create redundancy risk, workload intensification, and disciplinary marginalisation.

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A red jasper gem showing what Henig interpreted as the god Elagabal - an eagle on a conical stone, flanked by sacred standards.

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dtweidgenannt.bsky.social @dtweidgenannt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

And here in full colour! bsky.app/profile/dtwe...

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Came across this wonderful glass paste yesterday showing Erotes in a garland workshop! Now in Munich.

Black and white photograph of the glass paste showing 4 erotes at work in a workshop decorated with garlands hanging from the ceiling. One of the garlands ends with a phallus.

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

All my solidarity to colleagues. Another university 'management team' with zero sense of accountability. All too easy to blame the government. And enough with the rhetoric of 'improved curricula'. Impoverished curricula and skills that will not longer be transmitted - that's the reality.

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Classical Civilisation Shrewsbury College @classicsshrewsbury.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A lovely visit from Dr Clare Rowan and Prof Alison Cooley to talk about Res Gestae , Numismatics and to show us the coins of Augustus.

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Registration is now open for the 'Women, Power and Money' conference at the University of Warwick on June 11! Online or in person attendance possible. :-) Find out more about the programme here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla... @tokeneffort.bsky.social

screenshot of the programme, available also by clicking on the link.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

An amazing piece of beautiful, delicate Roman glass (C3rd AD), incongruously decorated with the slaughter of the arena. We see a retiarius, Pulcher (‘Pretty Boy’) fighting a secutor, Auriga (‘Charioteer’). The other side shows a leopard in a venatio, or wild beast hunt 🏛️📷 Trier’s Landesmuseum

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Evidence like this (combined with Rebecca Benefiel & Sarah Levin-Richardson's work) makes me much more skeptical of our assumptions about non-elite Roman women's literacy. There's almost certainly a spectrum of literacy, from Amica and Detfri's ability to sign their names to Sulpicia writing poetry.

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

404media.co

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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Dr Sarah Corrigan @corrigans.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Now open! The McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme is the University of Melbourne’s flagship postdoctoral development program... 2026 Round EOI deadline: 7 May sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/research-fun...

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McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme

Find information and resources for applicants and recipients of the McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme scheme.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Well these are excellent. Thank you @ucu.org.uk 👍

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David Fearn @davidfearn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

🥂 A final baking effort of the academic year: a Tarte Tatin for the party tomorrow to congratulate Prof Kevin Butcher on his well earned retirement, after a truly stellar international career at the top of ancient numismatics. 🥂

Apples and sugar ready to bake a tarte tatin.

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Lucy @lucymoore.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It'll be my second proper talk as Dr Lucy Moore to boot! We've got mystery hoards, unique coin types, MEMES & lots more!

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The next money and medals coin talk is an introduction to the (rather wonderful) coin collection at the University of Leeds with @lucymoore.bsky.social! Find out more and sign up here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...

Coin talk online 20 March 2025: An Introduction to the Coin Collection at the University of Leeds

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency

The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Prepping a talk on Eurysaces the baker for an open day tomorrow and thus was rather *too* delighted to pop out to see modern bread baskets at my local bakery this morning!

Modern baking ovens with dough baskets piled on top

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Reset the "days since Birmingham Uni management make the news for all the wrong reasons" counter, lads.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war." - Ilya Kaminsky

We Lived Happily during the War

And when they bombed other people's houses, we

protested but not enough, we opposed them but not

enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America

was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house-

I took a chair outside and watched the sun.

In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money

in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us)

lived happily during the war.

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kelly @kickinson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Roman 'voodoo doll' from Eining: Hand-modeled clay figurines with puncture holes are commonly referred to as 'voodoo dolls'. Archaeological and epigraphic evidence indicates that these figurines were pierced with nails or needles by individuals attempting to influence or harm a person. 🧵1/2 📷️ me 🏺

$A clay figurine with a roughly humanoid shape, displayed against a neutral wall. The figure has a rounded head with small, hollowed-out eyes and a faint, worn-down nose. The body is thick and cylindrical, with two protrusions on the sides that resemble arms. The lower half is fractured Cracks run throughout the surface, smal holes can be seen$

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

today is a day I get to teach coinage and that is ALWAYS a good day! One of today's discussion points below: a decadrachm of Syracuse signed by Kimon circa 405-400, AR 36 mm, 43.34 g, with a charioteer being crowned by Nike on one side and the nymph Arethusa surrounded by dolphins on the other..

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