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The Tragic Tale of Eloy Mestrelle
Before the sixteenth century, coins were produced in pretty much the same way as they had been in Ancient Greece. Metal would be heated until it was molten and poured into moulds before being allowed to cool. The blank piece (planchet) was then extracted from its mould and placed between two engraved metal dies. The…
The Great Victorian Sixpence Scandal
Sherlock Holmes arrived too late to solve one of Britain’s most curious criminal enterprises – a scandal that centered around Queen Victoria herself. But to be fair, it wasn’t his fault. You see, the Great Detective made his debut in A Study in Scarlet in December 1887. Just six months earlier, the British Empire was…
The Two Faces of Christ on the Gold Coins of Justinian II
Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in 313 AD. The western part of the empire fell in 476, but the eastern (or Byzantine) empire, with its capital at Constantinople, would continue for another thousand years after that. For centuries after his public execution, there was no consensus among artists on how to…
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