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Sam is Director of Numismatics at the L5 Ancient Coin Marketplace. He has numerous publications and has presented lectures at institutions including the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research (OCBR). He obtained his bachelors at the University of Tennessee and his masters at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien with the thesis titled ‘Thirteenth Century Byzantine Economic Activity: Analyzing Logistical Networks through Geographic Information Systems’. He will soon be starting his doctorate in Byzantine Studies at the Universität Wien in conjunction with the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, focusing on 13th century Balkan and Anatolian coinage.

Nick is the Conservator of the Department of Coins & Medals of Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (Royal Library of Belgium), the largest numismatic collection in Belgium, which houses the famed Tetradrachm of Aetna. Since 2016, he has also been affiliated with KU Leuven, where he worked on topics related to Graeco-Roman Egypt and ancient numismatics. He is specialized in the iconography of Roman imperial and provincial coinage, in particular that of Alexandria.

https://www.kbr.be/en/collections/coins-and-medals

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Nathan is a fourth year DPhil Candidate in History at Wolfson College, University of Oxford supervised by Ida Toth, in the final writing up stages of his work. He was previously a graduate of the MA Late Antique and Byzantine Studies course at King’s College London and an emeritus president of the Oxford University Byzantine Society in their 25th anniversary year 2022/2023.

Nathan’s thesis researches the representation and distortion of ethnicity amongst the various Greek and Slavonic-speaking splinter states formed after the Fourth Crusade. As part of that work he is the lead organiser of the OCBR funded project, ‘Epiros: The Other Western Rome,’ which held a two-day workshop in November connecting alternative narratives of the Balkans. He was awarded the Tsiter-Kontopoulou Short Visiting Fellowship at the University of Vienna which he took up in April of 2025.

https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/nathan-websdale