NEWS IN BRIEF

A collection of over 200 coins from over two centuries of Celtic British history is now available to view online. Thanks to a group of student volunteers studying at Glasgow University’s College of Art & Humanities, coins from different British tribes featuring a range of designs held in The Hunterian, the museum of the University of Glasgow, have been digitally catalogued. The last time the coins held in the collection were catalogued in any form was nearly 120 years ago. The newly digitised records for the Celtic British coinage are now available on the University of Glasgow’s Collections database (www.gla.ac.uk/collections).

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) have named Dr Ruth Pliego as the recipient of the 2023 Archer M Huntington Medal Award for Excellence in Numismatic Scholarship. After it is presented on 13 June at the ANS headquarters in New York, Ruth will give the Silvia Mani Hurter Memorial Lecture: ‘Archer M Huntington and the Visigothic Coins: Revisiting the La Capilla Hoard.’

The ‘Legion Life in the Roman Army’ exhibition runs at the British Museum until 23 June. This exhibition transports you across the Empire, with objects including letters written on papyri by soldiers from Roman Egypt and the Vindolanda tablets – some of the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain. The tablets, from the fort near Hadrian’s wall, reveal what daily life was like for soldiers and the women, children and enslaved people who accompanied them. For details, please see the museum’s website (www.britishmuseum.org).

The Royal Australian Mint won gold at the 2023 Qantas Australian Tourism Awards, when its was named Australia’s Best Cultural Tourism destination. Leigh Gordon, CEO, said: ‘The Mint is about more than money, we tell the stories of Australia, highlighting who we are and what’s important to us.’