Classics News and Events

In May's coin of the month Mairi Gkikaki explores the possible connection of some Hellenistic tokens with the Eleusinian mysteries. Read more here.

Congratulations to George Green (Parkes Weber Prize), Charlotte Mann (Parkes Weber Prize), and Dario Calomino (Lhotka Memorial Prize) for the recent recognition of their work in numismatics by the Royal Numismatic Society.

Congratulations to Cristian Mondello, who will be joining the department at Warwick as a British Academy Visiting Fellow. While at Warwick he will work on the ASINA tokens of late antiquity (which show a donkey), placed within the Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean team.

Congratulations to Chloe Standen, who has been awarded funding by the Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme to carry out research on her project 'Illustrations of Greek Love' over the summer vacation.

Nino Crisà explores the use of tokens as representations of hospitality in April's coin of the month.