PhD student Francesca Lam-March invited students to take part in the coin striking workshop as part of her project to emulate how coins were made during the Roman period.

Francesca describes the project aims:

After a lecture on ancient minting, the students used 2kg hammers to strike the dies using the ancient technique of inserting the dies into a tree stump. The experimental archaeology project yielded real results on how the depth of the die engravings impact the portraits of the emperor, showing that ancient bronze coin dies were likely struck hot rather than cold and that the deeper the die does not necessarily mean a better imprint of the portraits.

King's Department of Engineering provided space in the Wheatstone Lab for the experiment and the project was funded by the King's College London Arts and Humanities Faculty Small Research Grant in conjunction with the ERC funded Roman Emperor as Seen From the Provinces Project.

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