The Roman fort walls at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, with long grass in the foreground

TopRomanFacts

Roman history, archaeology, and coinage.

Videos, articles and tools from Hadley Sharman, an archaeologist researching Britain and coinage within the Roman Empire

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Roman London's confusing official status

4 October 2026

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What if Caligula making his horse a consul was about something else?

30 September 2026

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This clever system stealthily taxed people of the eastern Roman Empire

23 September 2026

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A searchable edition of Late Roman Bronze Coinage, A.D. 324–498 (Hill, Kent and Carson, 1960): all 4,497 entries, unabridged. Identify a coin by mint, reverse type, obverse and mintmark, look up a reference such as LRBC II 783, or browse the reverse types and mints.

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Hadley Sharman, wearing a head loupe and gloves, examining a piece of jewellery above a tray of coins from the Fenwick treasure — Examining the Fenwick treasure, Colchester.

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29 September 2026 · 1 min read

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Salve! My name is Hadley Sharman. I'm an archaeologist interested in ancient Rome, Britain under Roman rule, and the coins that people used all over that vast empire. TopRomanFacts.com is a repository for my social media posts, my blog about Roman archaeology, and numismatic tools.

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