Tiberian, Caligulan, Claudian Coins

In Episode 3, Sam tells James about how coin imagery developed across these three very different imperial reigns. Look out for the following time stamps:

6.05 & 9.08 Gaius Caligula’s coins

12.01 Claudius – intro and the praetorians 

15.50 The Drusus Aureus 

17.35 – Claudius’ Conquest of Britain 

20.50 – Claudius’ Dupondius about the corn supply

Sam Moorhead is a former staff lecturer in Archaeology at the British Museum, where he worked for over 25 years, including as National Finds Adviser for Ancient Coins in the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Between 2013 and 2022, he worked as the curator of ‘Rome: City and Empire’ a British Museum international touring exhibition and he is a widely published author on Roman archaeology and numismatics.

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