PAStCast!

The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS!

In episode 5 hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham) talk Roman Coins!

We're joined in this episode a REAL expert, Dr Andrew Brown from the British Museum's Coins and Medals Dept. As well as being a Former FLO himself, Andrew is also a 'Finds Advisor' to the PAS for Iron Age and Roman coins!

Naturally, this weeks finds in focus are Roman coins, 4 of them!

Semis: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/903152

As: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/141186

Aureus: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/837209

Denarius: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/782857

Links to the some of the teaching/craft resources: https://finds.org.uk/counties/blog/tag/schools/

Andrew also mentions his first and last finds recorded:

First find! https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/220820

First Roman coin: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/221288

Last coin recorded: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1018774

...and that Fake Gold Aureus: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/654997

(music credit: https://soundcloud.com/lukrembo/bread)