Numismatic Articles

Current and past articles on Ancient British coinage    (Info)

 

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• Van Arsdell 2024a    'The Dies Are Breaking! – Die damage on early British coins'
• Van Arsdell 2023c    'Modern Celtic Fakes 14 – Verica Minim'
• Van Arsdell 2023b    'Thurrock Cast Bronze with Flash Appendage'
• Van Arsdell 2023a    'Semiotics of Celtic Coins XX – Verica Rolls the Dice'
• Van Arsdell 2022d    'Modern Celtic Fakes 14 – A Connecticut Yankee in King Cunobeline's Court'
• Van Arsdell 2022c    'Death of a Die'
• Van Arsdell 2022b    'The Invisible Coinage of Verica'
• Van Arsdell 2022a    'Modern Celtic Fakes 13 – Durotrigan Struck Bronze'
• Van Arsdell 2021b    'Semiotics of Celtic Coins XIX – Dealing with Demons'
• Van Arsdell 2021a    'Modern Celtic Fakes 12 – Replicas from Bulgaria'
• Van Arsdell 2020d    'Semiotics of Celtic Coins XVIII – We've Won the War'
• Van Arsdell 2020c    'Letters to Fairholt'
• Van Arsdell 2020b    'Semiotics of Celtic Coins XVII – Tincomarus Rolls the Dice'
• Van Arsdell 2020a    'Semiotics of Celtic Coins XVI – Do Borrowed Images Mean Borrowed Messages?'
• Van Arsdell 2019c    'Modern Celtic Fakes 11 – A New Forger?'
• Van Arsdell 2019b    'Semiotics of Celtic Coins XV – People Breaking Things'
• Van Arsdell 2019a    'Semiotics of Celtic Coins XIV – Mapping Inventions'
• Van Arsdell 2018b    'Semiotics of Celtic Coins XIII – Identifying and Interpreting Inventions'
• Van Arsdell 2018a     'Modern Celtic Fakes 10 – A treacherous Andoco fake'
• Van Arsdell 2017b    'Modern Celtic Fakes 9 – Replicas from the Czech republic'
• Van Arsdell 2015h    'Catti and Nunney'
• Van Arsdell 2015g    'Semiotics of Celtic Coins XII: Mapping Replicas
• Van Arsdell 2015f    'Semiotics of Celtic Coins XI: Producing and Interpreting Replicas
• Van Arsdell 2015e    'Semiotics of Celtic Coins X: Inventions, Replicas and Applying the Brakes
• Van Arsdell 2015d    'Could Kent Kings Cast Coins? 2: something you don't normally see'
• Van Arsdell 2015c    'Could Kent Kings Cast Coins? 1: the slippery slope of inference'
• Van Arsdell 2015b    'Modern Celtic Fakes 8 – Replicas'
• Van Arsdell 2015a    'Modern Celtic Fakes 7 – the Haslemere Forger improves his work'
• Van Arsdell 2014g    'Modern Celtic Fakes 6 – an "obvious" fake'
• Van Arsdell 2014e    'Modern Celtic Fakes 5 – Haslemere vs. the legendary forgers'
• Van Arsdell 2014d    'Modern Celtic Fakes 4 – the best Haslemere forgeries'
• Van Arsdell 2014c    'Modern Celtic Fakes 3 – Haslemere Die Dressing Errors'
• Van Arsdell 2014b    'Modern Celtic Fakes 2 – Haslemere Silver: some diagnostics'
• Van Arsdell 2014a    'Modern Celtic Fakes 1 – Cast forgeries of Durotrigan silver staters'

 

• Most of the following articles appeared in the pages of Spink's Numismatic Circular and are available here with appreciation to Spink and Son, Ltd.

 

• Van Arsdell 2010b    'Semiotics of Celtic coins IX – The Minefield of Metaphor'
• Van Arsdell 2010a    'Semiotics of Celtic coins VIII – Seeing past the die-cutters'
• Van Arsdell 2009b    'Semiotics of Celtic coins VII – The search for codes'
• Van Arsdell 2009a    'Semiotics of Celtic coins VI – Cunobeline's ship'
• Van Arsdell 2008c    'Semiotics of Celtic coins V – It's not art'
• Van Arsdell 2008b    'Semiotics of Celtic coins IV – Extensions into the continuum'
• Van Arsdell 2008a    'Semiotics of Celtic coins III – Amalgamation switchers'
• Van Arsdell 2007b    'Semiotics of Celtic coins II – Circumstance selectors'
• Van Arsdell 2007a    'Semiotics of Celtic coins I – Ruding's challenge'
• Van Arsdell 2002      'Celtic Coinage 2001' (report on Celtic Coinage conference in Oxford in 2001)
• Van Arsdell 1998      'It's 1960 again – is everyone feeling much better now?'
• Van Arsdell 1996b    'Muddying the Atrebatic waters'
• Van Arsdell 1995b    'A Boudiccan coin from the German Limes'
• Van Arsdell 1995a    'Some recent discoveries'
• Van Arsdell 1994e    'Clashed dies and the organization of Verica's mint'
• Van Arsdell 1994d    'The Wanborough Hoard: a reconstruction'
• Van Arsdell 1994c    'Celtic chicanery IV – the war trumpet'
• Van Arsdell 1994b    'Two new Cantian coins', NCIRC, vol. 102, p.6.
• Van Arsdell 1993g    'The recently stolen Holdenhurst hoard and coins from the Bushe-Fox excavations at Hengistbury –corrections to the record'
• Van Arsdell 1993f    'The date of the Kentish cast bronze coinage – evidence from Hengistbury and The Caburn', the "Lost Article"
• Van Arsdell 1993d    'Bad day at flat rock'
• Van Arsdell 1993c    'Metallurgical and metrological analysis of pre-dynastic staters in Britain II – the Atrebates'
• Van Arsdell 1993b    'An anomalous Yarmouth stater'
• Van Arsdell 1993a    'Die-cutting expertise in Celtic Britain'
• Van Arsdell 1992g    'Trade routes in Britain via trend surface analysis'
• Van Arsdell 1992f    'The coinage of Queen Boudicca, an update'
• Van Arsdell 1992e    'Metallurgical and metrological analysis of pre-dynastic staters in Britain I – the Corieltauvi'
• Van Arsdell 1992d    'A Dobunnic branched emblem on a bronze "wheel money" object'
• Van Arsdell 1992c    'Three new Celtic staters'
• Van Arsdell 1992b    'Inscription on Cunobeline ship type confirmed'
• Van Arsdell 1990      'Celtic chicanery III – The Bird-Man'
• Van Arsdell 1989g    'A new (but illegible) inscription on a Cantian stater'
• Van Arsdell 1989f    'The silver minims of Commius'
• Van Arsdell 1989e    'The face on the defaced die staters'
• Van Arsdell 1989d    'Celtic chicanery II – the hidden face on an Atrebatic stater'
• Van Arsdell 1989c    'The quarter staters of Commius'
• Van Arsdell 1989b    'Take out the gold, but keep the colour'
• Van Arsdell 1988      'Celtic Chicanery'
• Van Arsdell 1987b    'The Coinage of Queen Boudicca'
• Van Arsdell 1987a    'The Silver Coins of Commius—A New Variety'
• Van Arsdell 1986i    'The Forgery of the Haslemere Hoard'
• Van Arsdell 1986h    'The Silver Coinage of Commius'
• Van Arsdell 1986g    'Rescuing a Catti Stater'
• Van Arsdell 1986f     'Rescuing a North East Coast Stater'
• Van Arsdell 1986e    'The Second Haslemere Hoard and some Haslemere Stragglers'
• Van Arsdell 1986d    'False Dobunnic Coins from the Hand of the Haslemere Forger'
• Van Arsdell 1986c    'A Metallurgical Condemnation of the Haslemere Hoard'
• Van Arsdell 1986a    'Ancient Forgeries Demonstrate Celts Used Coins as Money'
• Van Arsdell 1985c    'False Coritanian Staters from the Hand of the Haslemere Forger'
• Van Arsdell 1985b    'The Origin and Date of the Silver Coritanian Coinage', NCIRC
• Van Arsdell 1985a    'The Hallmark of the Haslemere Forger'
• Van Arsdell 1984d    'A Note on the Date of the British Potin Coinage'
• Van Arsdell 1984c    'Yet Another Surprise from the Haslemere Hoard'
• Van Arsdell 1984b    'The Missing Coins from the Collection of Sir John Evans'
• Van Arsdell 1984a    'The Origin of the British L Stater and the Problem of the Catuvellauni'
• Van Arsdell 1983b    'Dumnoc Tigir Seno'
• Van Arsdell 1983a    'A Note on the Earliest Types of British Potin Coins'
• Van Arsdell 1980     'Correspondence' (1756 Withy and Ryall catalogue and John White intrigues)