The Few, The Proud, The Romans!

Rogue History
5 min readNov 17, 2020
Photos Credit: Scott Coleman courtesy of the Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Another week and I am almost done sorting through the Roman Imperial coins. Labels have been written. Coins re-ordered. Some even identified and attributed to their rightful emperor. YES. This exciting adventure will soon come to an end…or will it? Oh, the Suspense. Of course, it’s not ending; we have to sort through those Byzantines. That ruckus group of ragtag eastern Romans who decided that they should continue existing without…

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Rogue History

Scott Coleman is an archaeologist, Byzantinist, coin-nerd (Numismatist), blogger, and Ph.D. Candidate (Public History) at Carleton University, Ottawa.