graecomuse: Basic Numismatics: A Quick Guide to the Study of Ancient Coinage.

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Italian Archaeologist Turns Dodgy Dealer?.

Blogging Pompeii: Fasti Online: Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia PARP:PS 2010 campaign.

Mentioned almost in passing in the incipit of a brief item at Athens News:

Pavlos Yeroulanos will stay on as minister of culture and tourism, despite offering his resignation in the wake of last week museum robbery at Ancient Olympia.

Prime Minister Lucas Papademos met with Yeroulanos on Wednesday to discuss the armed robbery and said that he had rejected the resignation offer. […]

• via Yeroulanos to stay on, despite Olympia heist | Athens News.

For those of you with an NFL obsession like our house has, there might be some interest in the upcoming Combine (when prospects show off their skills for pro scouts and coaches prior to the draft). CBS News has a brief feature which begins:

You can tell a lot about an NFL prospect based on how they were raised.

For offensive tackles Jonathan Martin and Matt Kalil, All-Pac-12 counterparts fighting to be the top offensive lineman drafted in April, background is at the forefront at the NFL Scouting Combine.

Stanford’s Martin majored in Classics — Greek and Roman history — with plans to eventually attend law school. He was recruited by Harvard, his father is a criminal justice professor and his mother is legal counsel for an auto company. At 6-5, 312 pounds with 34-inch arm length, he has the size advantage over Southern Cal’s Kalil. […]

• via: Tackles Martin, Kalil jockey for draft position at combine(CBS)