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Museum in a Minute #4 – Coins – Then and Now

Mathew Sandford — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:54:23 +0000

In this most recent Museum in a Minute, MMA Information Officer Teresa Gregorio compares the coins in her pocket to the Ancient Roman and Greek coins in McMaster’s Collection.

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Dr. Spencer Pope: A History of Numismatics

Mathew Sandford — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:20:11 +0000

Dr Spencer Pope from the Department of Classics took the floor to guide us through critical moments in the history of numismatics from the Ancient World referring exclusively to coins in the McMaster Museum of Art’s Bruce Brace Coin Collection.

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On Roman Glass and McMaster’s Antiquities Collection

Mathew Sandford — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:45:45 +0000

Owen Phillips, a graduate student in the Department of Classics at McMaster University, recently presented a fascinating talk about ancient Roman glass, an intriguing window into ancient daily life.

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