British Museum;SushmaBritish Museum;Taylor & Francis GroupSouth Asian StudiesJansari, Sushma. 2013. Roman Coins from the Masson and Mackenzie Collections in the British Museum. South Asian Studies, 29 (2), pp. 177-93. 423 ___. (in progress) West meets East: Seleucid and Ptolemaic Contact...
London British Museum‐MATTINGLY, H., (1975): Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, Vol. 5, Pertinax to Elagabalus, Londres. ‐ (1976): Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum...
include two remarkable curved drinking horns of olive green glass, both broken, but one of which it has been found possible to reconstruct, bronze brooches and rings, wooden buckets with bronze mounts, shield bosses, spearheads, a sword of iron and Roman coins, pierced for use as pendants....
The museum originated from the vast collection of Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), a physician and President of the Royal Society, who had amassed more than 80,000 “natural and artificial rarities”, some 40,000 books and manuscripts and 32,000 coins and medals. With more than 60 permanent ...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=-1262 Britain, British Museum, Exhibition 2024 - Legion: life in the Roman Army - bronze Draco By the A.D.100s, a distinctive windsock-like standard especially suited to being wielded from the saddle had been adopted...
When the British Museum opened in 1759 it was the first national museum to be open to the public anywhere in the world. It was free to visit (and still is) so that any ‘studious and curious persons’ could pass through its doors and look at the strange objects collected from all over...
Finders keepers, losers weepers. For the past thousand years, if you happened to stumble across the worldly possessions of someone long since departed you could just keep them. In 1996 this changed under the UK’s Treasure Act. Before you got to cash your cache of Roman coins you needed to...
" the museum said in the news release.The finds included an intricately carved rosary bead made out of bone, a 3,000-year-old gold dress fastener, and a hoard of Iron Age gold coins that were found inside a hollow container. The finds discovered may end up in museums or other ...
•A major new exhibition on life as a Roman legionary opens at the British Museum today.Legion: Life in the Roman armyshares stories of real legionaries and shows how the army was as much an “engine of social change” as it was a war machine. More than 200 objects, many of which...
Greek coins: Lydia's electrum coins 575 BC, silver coins 500 BC, Achemaenid coins 500 BC Chinese coin: spade coin 600 BC Greek drachma Sicilian coins (Syracuse, 400 BC) Tv Set Model 817 (1938) - Museum of Science Babbage's "Difference Engine" (1859) manufactured by Edvard Scheutz Pasc...