About

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 Managing Editor in Chief of the numismatic journal Ars Nummorum et Eorum Fontium (ANF), and also serves as 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’. Forthcoming publications include a chapter in the Moving Byzantium series ‘Epiros: The Other Western Rome’ volume titled ‘Reevaluating the Arta Mint and Epirote Coinage of Michael I and II Ducas: Numismatic Evidence for the Imperial Pretensions of Alexius III in ‘Exile’’.

For inquiries, suggestions, or help with late Byzantine coins, please reach out at sam@cowell.org.