Three clay moulds coming from Corseul are conserved in Nantes museum. Two of them represent severian denarii. The third mould shows the print of a denarius obverse of Julia Domna (196-211), and on the other side, of an antoninianus reverse of Aurelian (Milan, late 271-summer 273). The production of cast denarii in the time of Aurelian, when the coinage of denarii had practically ceased, suggests the hypothesis of counterfeiters who took advantage of the disorganization of the monetary circulation to mislead hoarders. We must admit that the denarius had reached a parallel and unofficial rate, increasing in proportion with the debasement of the antoninianus. The series of severian coin-moulds may be the product of a late fraudulent activity ...
A few rare silver Merovingian coins bear a noticeably larger diametre than other issues of the same ...
International audienceExcavations carried-out on the outskirts of an ancient settlement near the mod...
Excavations carried out in 2001 at the Gallo-Roman site οί La Pièce du Gué (Le Mesnil-Amelot, Seine-...
Three clay moulds coming from Corseul are conserved in Nantes museum. Two of them represent severian...
International audienceThe discovery of clay moulds at La Coulonche (Orne) in the mid-19th century at...
International audienceThe rescue excavations carried out between 1996 and 1999 by Dr. H.-P. Kuhnen o...
77 clay moulds were discovered in Sées (Orne) during preventive operations carried over by the Servi...
International audience77 clay moulds were discovered in Sées (Orne) during preventive operations car...
International audienceThe four clay casting moulds for coins from the collection L. Gosselin in the ...
International audienceA bronze medallion in the name of the usurper Julianus, also known as Julian o...
The Couddes coin hoard was found in 1979, deposited in a coarse ware pottery. 759 antoniniani from G...
In the Nineties excavations made in La Rochelle (France) have produced objects of archaeometallurgic...
A bronze medallion in the name of the usurper Julianus, also known as Julian of Pannonia (284-285 AD...
Imitations of Roman coins are an extremely heterogeneous group in geographical, chronological and fu...
International audienceThe excavation of the copper cementation workshop “Le Clos-Paul” in Charlevill...
A few rare silver Merovingian coins bear a noticeably larger diametre than other issues of the same ...
International audienceExcavations carried-out on the outskirts of an ancient settlement near the mod...
Excavations carried out in 2001 at the Gallo-Roman site οί La Pièce du Gué (Le Mesnil-Amelot, Seine-...
Three clay moulds coming from Corseul are conserved in Nantes museum. Two of them represent severian...
International audienceThe discovery of clay moulds at La Coulonche (Orne) in the mid-19th century at...
International audienceThe rescue excavations carried out between 1996 and 1999 by Dr. H.-P. Kuhnen o...
77 clay moulds were discovered in Sées (Orne) during preventive operations carried over by the Servi...
International audience77 clay moulds were discovered in Sées (Orne) during preventive operations car...
International audienceThe four clay casting moulds for coins from the collection L. Gosselin in the ...
International audienceA bronze medallion in the name of the usurper Julianus, also known as Julian o...
The Couddes coin hoard was found in 1979, deposited in a coarse ware pottery. 759 antoniniani from G...
In the Nineties excavations made in La Rochelle (France) have produced objects of archaeometallurgic...
A bronze medallion in the name of the usurper Julianus, also known as Julian of Pannonia (284-285 AD...
Imitations of Roman coins are an extremely heterogeneous group in geographical, chronological and fu...
International audienceThe excavation of the copper cementation workshop “Le Clos-Paul” in Charlevill...
A few rare silver Merovingian coins bear a noticeably larger diametre than other issues of the same ...
International audienceExcavations carried-out on the outskirts of an ancient settlement near the mod...
Excavations carried out in 2001 at the Gallo-Roman site οί La Pièce du Gué (Le Mesnil-Amelot, Seine-...