Simon Coupland
@scoupland.bsky.social
FRHistS, lover of Carolingian coinage, Vikings, Jesus and my wife and daughter, though not necessarily in that order
For #FindsFriday a denier of Lothar II (855-869) from Cologne, found at Valkhof in Nijmegen. The mangled forms of the king's name (which is written backwards) and the mint-name led to these coins long being unidentified. 📷 Collection Valkhof Museum
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
For #FindsFriday a denier of Lothar II (855-869) from Cologne, found at Valkhof in Nijmegen. The mangled forms of the king's name (which is written backwards) and the mint-name led to these coins long being unidentified. 📷 Collection Valkhof Museum
A second Thor's hammer find this year in Østfold (Norway)
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A second Thor's hammer find this year in Østfold (Norway)
For #FindsFriday one of the coins from the Skumsnes hoard from western Norway - 7 Carolingian, all Louis the Pious Christians religio (most from Melle), 2 early Danish and this one of Ecgberht of Wessex, (802-839), Rochester mint. A very rare and exciting find!
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
For #FindsFriday one of the coins from the Skumsnes hoard from western Norway - 7 Carolingian, all Louis the Pious Christians religio (most from Melle), 2 early Danish and this one of Ecgberht of Wessex, (802-839), Rochester mint. A very rare and exciting find!
For #FindsFriday Scandinavian objects found at Wijk bij Duurstede (Dorestad) - unsurprising given the importance of trade with Scandinavia, and Danish rule over the site for lengthy periods. Pictures: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden (RMO)
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
For #FindsFriday Scandinavian objects found at Wijk bij Duurstede (Dorestad) - unsurprising given the importance of trade with Scandinavia, and Danish rule over the site for lengthy periods. Pictures: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden (RMO)
Food in Pompeii - happy memories of an amazing place
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Food in Pompeii - happy memories of an amazing place
Always love to get a new set of proofs! But it's still embarrassing to find typos in text that you had read and reread umpteen times! 😳🤓
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Always love to get a new set of proofs! But it's still embarrassing to find typos in text that you had read and reread umpteen times! 😳🤓
For #FindsFriday a sneak preview of my article in the next Numismatic Chronicle on Carolingian hoards from Drenthe (NL). This is the Balloo hoard of 1855 (just nos 1-5), 1 Dorestad coin of Lothar I and four Christiana religio coins of Louis the Pious Group S2, attributed to Saxony.
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
For #FindsFriday a sneak preview of my article in the next Numismatic Chronicle on Carolingian hoards from Drenthe (NL). This is the Balloo hoard of 1855 (just nos 1-5), 1 Dorestad coin of Lothar I and four Christiana religio coins of Louis the Pious Group S2, attributed to Saxony.
Compare this one en.numista.com/144724
November 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Compare this one en.numista.com/144724
13th century statues destroyed in the early 18th century 📸 INRAP www.inrap.fr/les-archeolo...
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
13th century statues destroyed in the early 18th century 📸 INRAP www.inrap.fr/les-archeolo...
Astonishing finds from the excavations at Notre Dame in Paris!
www.inrap.fr/les-archeolo...
www.inrap.fr/les-archeolo...
October 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Astonishing finds from the excavations at Notre Dame in Paris!
www.inrap.fr/les-archeolo...
www.inrap.fr/les-archeolo...
For #FindsFriday the Bredfield Brooch, solid silver weighing 36g, found in 2009. The Anglo-Scandinavian Urnes style of decoration dates it to the second half of the 11th century. It's on display in the newly refurbished Norwich Castle. 📸 My own.
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
For #FindsFriday the Bredfield Brooch, solid silver weighing 36g, found in 2009. The Anglo-Scandinavian Urnes style of decoration dates it to the second half of the 11th century. It's on display in the newly refurbished Norwich Castle. 📸 My own.
Since beads were so popular last week, for #FindsFriday here are a few of the bead types from Dorestad, catalogued by Mette Langbroek in her fascinating article in Dorestad and its Networks, open access here: www.sidestone.com/books/dorest...
October 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Since beads were so popular last week, for #FindsFriday here are a few of the bead types from Dorestad, catalogued by Mette Langbroek in her fascinating article in Dorestad and its Networks, open access here: www.sidestone.com/books/dorest...
You know there's a film of it?
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
You know there's a film of it?
For #mosaicmonday dolphins in the House of Mars and Venus, Pompeii. 📷 my own
October 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
For #mosaicmonday dolphins in the House of Mars and Venus, Pompeii. 📷 my own
Following the lead set by @downham.bsky.social I have now joined Knowledge Commons and uploaded my first file. It's just out: "The coinage of Pippin III (751-768) in the light of a new hoard from Limburg (The Netherlands)". works.hcommons.org/records/vcgk... More will follow!
October 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Following the lead set by @downham.bsky.social I have now joined Knowledge Commons and uploaded my first file. It's just out: "The coinage of Pippin III (751-768) in the light of a new hoard from Limburg (The Netherlands)". works.hcommons.org/records/vcgk... More will follow!
For #FindsFriday just a few of the fabulous Viking age beads discovered at Haithabu/ Hedeby - 📷 Schloss Gottorf Museum.
October 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
For #FindsFriday just a few of the fabulous Viking age beads discovered at Haithabu/ Hedeby - 📷 Schloss Gottorf Museum.
Love it! Seems to have first appeared on X in 2019: a dynamic equivalence translation may be 'Belgian archaeologists discover the tomb of Toutancanwho'
October 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Love it! Seems to have first appeared on X in 2019: a dynamic equivalence translation may be 'Belgian archaeologists discover the tomb of Toutancanwho'
Today the Church of England remembers Edward the Confessor, depicted here on the Bayeux tapestry
Source: Bayeux Museum share.google/Ar3ptoTbiKrH...
Source: Bayeux Museum share.google/Ar3ptoTbiKrH...
October 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Today the Church of England remembers Edward the Confessor, depicted here on the Bayeux tapestry
Source: Bayeux Museum share.google/Ar3ptoTbiKrH...
Source: Bayeux Museum share.google/Ar3ptoTbiKrH...
Clearly Wikipedia uses a different definition of “city” to me
October 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Clearly Wikipedia uses a different definition of “city” to me
For #FindsFriday some of the lovely objects in the Ilanz hoard from Switzerland, buried during Charlemagne's reign, in the early 790s. Gold Lombard and Carolingian coins, silver Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon and Arabic coins, as well as gold jewellery. See more here: raetischesmuseum.app/extras/highl...
October 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
For #FindsFriday some of the lovely objects in the Ilanz hoard from Switzerland, buried during Charlemagne's reign, in the early 790s. Gold Lombard and Carolingian coins, silver Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon and Arabic coins, as well as gold jewellery. See more here: raetischesmuseum.app/extras/highl...
Just published in Revue du Nord 451: an interdisciplinary article setting out the arguments for seeing one of these coins as the earliest historical evidence for Bruges (BVRGES) and the other as a coin of Boulogne (BONONIA), both key elements in Charlemagne's North Sea defences.
October 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Just published in Revue du Nord 451: an interdisciplinary article setting out the arguments for seeing one of these coins as the earliest historical evidence for Bruges (BVRGES) and the other as a coin of Boulogne (BONONIA), both key elements in Charlemagne's North Sea defences.
For #FindsFriday the jewellery from the Féchain hoard, found in 1967 but still unpublished so not as well known as it should be. 441 Carolingian coins, the most recent of Odo and Arnulf, date it to c. 890. Image from Périn and Feffer, La Neustrie.
September 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
For #FindsFriday the jewellery from the Féchain hoard, found in 1967 but still unpublished so not as well known as it should be. 441 Carolingian coins, the most recent of Odo and Arnulf, date it to c. 890. Image from Périn and Feffer, La Neustrie.
A feast for the eyes! 😍 One of the finest Carolingian coins ever seen, à gold solidus of Louis the Pious, minted in the 810s, in an auction with Jean Elsen. 💯% genuine as die-linked with previously known coins.
elsen.bidinside.com/en/cat/156/2...
elsen.bidinside.com/en/cat/156/2...
September 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A feast for the eyes! 😍 One of the finest Carolingian coins ever seen, à gold solidus of Louis the Pious, minted in the 810s, in an auction with Jean Elsen. 💯% genuine as die-linked with previously known coins.
elsen.bidinside.com/en/cat/156/2...
elsen.bidinside.com/en/cat/156/2...
I saw the first, and couldn’t help thinking of the second 😜
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I saw the first, and couldn’t help thinking of the second 😜