Publications by scholars associated with the Centre for Coins, Culture and Religious History.
Sebastian Harris
Christians of the Roman Empire (CoRE): A digital resource that evaluates critical common representations of Christians within the Roman Empire.
Trade Token Tales I: The Stories and Mysteries of Brisbane’s Trade Merchants in the 1860s-70s. Australian Coin Review 2.2(11) (2025): 38-41 [named second in the top five articles of 2025].
ΝΟΣΤΟΙ | Homecomings: Stories of the Ionian Island Diaspora in Queensland. Represented numismatist for the Centre for Coins, Culture and Religious History and Queensland Museum at the UQ Antiquities Museum’s exhibition, opened 26 November 2025.
“No Man Ever Steps in the Same City Twice”: The Roman Provincial Coinage of Ephesus Explored. Self-published essay sequel to the earlier article that examines Ephesian coinage in the Roman Period (86 BC-AD 253), SSRN Electronic Journal, 6 October 2025, 25 p.
Tiberius Asinius Philopappos as Grammateus, Colossae, 138–161 CE. Analysis of the Asinia gens and a unique coin from Colossae minted in the reign of Antoninus Pius, Centre for Coins, Culture and Religious History Blog, 3 October 2024.
Geta as Caesar, AE17, Pessinus, 198–209 CE. Examination of a then-unpublished coin of Geta as Caesar from the Galatian town of Pessinus under Septimus Severus, Centre for Coins, Culture and Religious History Blog, 3 October 2024.
Four CCCRH coins added to RPC Online. Examination of four Roman Provincial coins that were either unique, unpublished or extremely rare at the time of publication, Centre for Coins, Culture and Religious History Blog, 28 November 2023.
Ancient Silver Coinage of Ephesus: The Changing ‘Faces’ of Classical and Hellenistic Coinage. Self-published essay on the many changes in Ephesian coinage from the Late Classical to Hellenistic Period, SSRN Electronic Journal, 22 September 2023, 21 p.
The Last Years of Julius Caesar’s Life in Five Coins. Examination of five Roman Republic coins and how they reveal the changing nature of Julius Caesar in his final years (49-43 BC), World History Encyclopedia Blog, 2 February 2023.
Gregory C. Jenks
“The Hellenistic and Early Roman Coins from Et-Tell.” STRATA: Journal of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 41 (2023): 13–30.
“Medieval Coins from the Excavations at et-Tel (Bethsaida) 1987–2016”in ‘And they came to Bethsaida’: A Festschrift in honor of Rami Arav, edited by Fred Strickert and Richard Freund, 181-201. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
“Bethsaida Coin Report: 2014 Season” The complete list of coins recovered during the 2014 season of the Bethsaida Excavation Project, with detailed descriptions and photographs.
“2013 Bethsaida Coin Report” In Rami Arav, Kate Raphael, Carl Savage, Nicolae Roddy, Toni Fisher & Gregory C. Jenks, Report on the 2013 Excavation Season. (Omaha, NE: Consortium for the Bethsaida Excavations Project, 2013).
A Roman coin from Bethsaida (Et-tell).” In A Life in Parables and Poetry: Pedagogue, Poet, Scholar. Essays in honor of Mishael Maswari Caspi, edited John T. Greene, 121–32. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 2014.
“More than just Couch Change: Bethsaida Coin Report 2001-2012.” In Bethsaida in Archaeology, History, and Ancient Culture. A Festschrift in Honor of John T. Greene, edited by J. Harold Ellens, 152–87. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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Peter E. Lewis
- Assignats of the French Revolution 1789–1799 – in Mintmark 481 (June 2025).
- “Jesus Christ on Byzantine coins,” In Historical Afterives of Jesus: Jesus in Global Perspective, 1, edited by Gregory C. Jenks, 125–39. Westar Studies. Cascade Books, 2023.
- Monthly articles prepared by Peter E. Lewis on selected coins in the Australasian Coin & Banknote magazine.
- The Denarius in Mark 12.15 – an essay by Peter E. Lewis on the coin used by Jesus in response to a question about paying taxes.
- Lewis, Peter, and Ron Bolden. The Pocket Guide to Saint Paul: Coins Encountered by the Apostle on His Travels. Wakefield Press, 2002.