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Title Coin hoards and hoarding in the Roman world / edited by Jerome Mairat, Andrew Wilson, and Chris Howgego
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Series Oxford studies on the Roman economy
Oxford studies on the Roman economy.
Contents Introduction. Coin hoards and hoarding in the Roman world / Chris Howgego and Andrew Wilson -- Simplifying complexity / Kris Lockyear -- Hoarding in Roman Britain : an archaeological and contextual approach / Eleanor Ghey -- Hoarding in Burgundy, France : micro-study of a region / Antony Hostein and Pierre Nouvel, with the collaboration of Bernadette Soum and Ludovic Trommenschlager -- Coin hoards of the Gallic Empire / Jerome Mairat -- The interface between East and West in hoards from Southern Greece and Macedonia / Athena Iakovidou and Sophia Kremydi -- Coin hoards from Roman Dacia / Cristian Găzdac -- Third-century hoards of Roman provincial coins from Moesia Inferior / Ivan Bonchev -- Coin hoarding in Roman Palestine : 63 BC to AD 300 / Joshua Goldman -- Roman coin hoards from Egypt : what next / Thomas Faucher -- The imperial afterlife of Roman Republican coins and the phenomenon of the restored denarii / Bernhard E. Woytek -- Hoarding of denarii and the reforms of Nero and Septimius Severus / Kevin Butcher and Matthew Ponting -- Coin supply and longevity of circulation : three case studies from hoards in North-West Europe / Benjamin D. R. Hellings -- The end of the small change economy in Northern Gaul in the fourth and the fifth centuries AD / Johan van Heesch -- Forms of largitio and denominations of silver plate in Late Antiquity : the evidence of flanged bowls / Richard Hobbs
Summary "This interdisciplinary volume presents an introduction and fourteen papers by Roman numismatists, historians, and archaeologists, discussing coin hoarding in the Roman Empire from c. 30 BC to AD 400. The book introduces the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project, which is creating a database of all known Roman coin hoards from Augustus to AD 400, and illustrates the range of research themes being addressed by those connected with the project. The volume also reflects the range of the Project’s collaborations, with chapters on the use of hoard data to address methodological considerations or monetary history; and coverage of hoards from the west, centre, and east of the Roman Empire, essential to assess methodological issues and interpretations in as broad a context as possible. Chapters on methodology and metrology introduce statistical tools for analysing patterns of hoarding, explore the relationships between monetary reforms and hoarding practices, and address the question of value, emphasizing the need to consider the whole range of precious metal artefacts hoarded. Several chapters present regional studies, from Britain to Egypt, conveying the diversity of hoarding practices across the Empire, the differing methodological challenges they face, and the variety of topics they illuminate. The final group of chapters examines the evidence of hoarding for how long coins stayed in circulation, illustrating the importance of hoard evidence as a control on the interpretation of single coin finds, the continued circulation of Republican coins under the Empire, and the end of the small change economy in northern Gaul"--Publisher's description
Notes This edition also issued in print: 2022
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on April 21, 2023)
Subject Coins, Roman.
Coin hoards -- Rome
Coinage -- Rome -- History
Coin hoards.
Coinage.
Coins, Roman.
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Mairat, Jerome, 1979- editor.
Wilson, Andrew, 1968- editor.
Howgego, C. J., editor.
ISBN 9780191898525
019189852X