ANF Editors

Sam Cowell is a first year doctoral student at the Universität Wien focusing on 13th century Balkan and Anatolian coinage under supervisors Dr. Nikolaus Schindel and Dr. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, in conjunction with the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (OEAW). He is also Director of Numismatics at the L5 Ancient Coin Marketplace. Sam has numerous publications across various journals including the ‘Classification of the Aspron AR Trachy Reverse Dies of Manuel I Megas Komnenos’ and ‘The Fourrée Hyperpyra of John V Palaeologus’. He has presented lectures at institutions including the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research (OCBR). Sam obtained his bachelors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and his master’s at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien with the thesis titled ‘Thirteenth Century Byzantine Economic Activity: Analyzing Logistical Networks through Geographic Information Systems’.

https://www.byzantinecoins.net

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

Jack Koziol is the CEO of L5 and the founder of Infosec, a cybersecurity SaaS startup. He serves on the Advisory Board of the American Numismatic Society (ANS) and is the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Beyond his operator roles, Jack advises the next generation of AI startups as a board member across several early-stage companies.

Nathan Websdale is a DPhil Candidate at the Faculty of History at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His research is supervised by Dr Ida Toth having previously graduated from the MA Late Antique and Byzantine Studies course at King’s College London. In the final writing up stages of his work, Nathan’s thesis (Panspermía and the Romaíoi: Performative Ethnicity and the Weaponisation of Space in Byzantium’s Post-Imperial Networks, c.1190–1235), researches the representation and distortion of ethnicity amongst the various Greek and Slavonic-speaking splinter states formed before and after the Fourth Crusade. As part of that work he is the lead organiser of the OCBR funded project, ‘Epiros: The Other Western Rome,’ connecting alternative narratives of the Balkans for which the forthcoming volume is expected in 2026. His work 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