Category: coins

One of the latest-dating hoards in our study is a rare find from Wem Rural parish in Shropshire, discovered by metal detectorists in 2018. After … Read more

Silver coins with displaying various degrees of clipping (Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum). When a coin is clipped, some of the key … Read more

For the last couple of months, we have been very busy designing a display case about the project. We are very excited to announce that … Read more

Here at the British Museum, a five-year project aiming to make the entire museum’s collection of roughly eight million objects(!) fully accessible online is now … Read more

In one of our earlier blog posts, we discussed a wooden tankard that was discovered at Shapwick Heath by peat workers in the 1930s. The … Read more

Hoard of 2077 late Roman bronze coins from Winterslow, Wiltshire (Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum) Not all of the hoards that we … Read more

Haynes hoard, BEDFM:1999.235. Image courtesy of The Higgins Museum (Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum) For our final museum visit, we travelled to the … Read more

We have an exciting update to share with you this week – we can confirm that we have found another late Roman hacksilver hoard!  The … Read more

In 1938, a small late Roman hoard was discovered in a sandpit at Tuddenham St Martin in Suffolk. 114 silver coins and a gold ring … Read more

As we have seen in previous posts, some hoards are found during archaeological excavations meaning we have a bit more background on the nature of … Read more