Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World

by Mairat, Jerome; Wilson, Andrew; Howgego, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780198866381
• ISBN10: 0198866380
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192636249
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-08-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World presents fourteen chapters from an interdisciplinary group of Roman numismatists, historians, and archaeologists, discussing coin hoarding in the Roman Empire from c. 30 BC to AD 400. The book illustrates the range of research themes being addressed by those connected with the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project, which is creating a database of all known Roman coin hoards from Augustus to AD 400. 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.

Author Biography

Jerome Mairat, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford,Andrew Wilson, University of Oxford,Chris Howgego, University of Oxford

Jerome Mairat is curator of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in charge of the digitization of the collection. His research focuses on the Roman coinage of the third century AD, both imperial and provincial. He is a co-author of Roman Provincial Coinage, volume IX, AD 249-254
(British Museum, 2016), General Editor of Roman Provincial Coinage, and Director of RPC online.

Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at the University of Oxford. His research interests include the economy of the Roman Empire, ancient technology, ancient water supply and usage, Roman North Africa, and archaeological field surveys. He is the co-editor of The Economy
of Pompeii (OUP, 2017, with Miko Flohr), Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World (OUP, 2018, with Alan Bowman), and Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy (OUP, 2020, with Chloë N. Duckworth)

Chris Howgego is Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, and Professor of Greek and Roman Numismatics in the University of Oxford. He is the author of Ancient History from Coins (Routledge, 1995), and has written widely on Roman coinage and history. He was the founding Director of Roman
Provincial Coinage Online and, with Andrew Wilson, of the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project; he continues to co-direct both projects. He is also an editor of the series Roman Imperial Coinage and Roman Provincial Coinage.

Table of Contents

Part I: Approaches
1. Introduction: Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World, Chris Howgego and Andrew Wilson
2. Simplifying Complexity, Kris Lockyear
Part II: Regional Studies
3. Hoarding in Roman Britain: an Archaeological and Contextual Approach, Eleanor Ghey
4. Hoarding in Burgundy, France: Micro-Study of a Region, Antony Hostein and Pierre Nouvel, with the collaboration of Bernadette Soum and Ludovic Trommenschlager
5. Coin Hoards of the Gallic Empire, Jerome Mairat
6. The Interface between East and West in Hoards from Southern Greece and Macedonia, Athena Iakovidou and Sophia Kremydi
7. Coin Hoards from Roman Dacia, Cristian Găzdac
8. Third-Century Hoards of Roman Provincial Coins from Moesia Inferior, Ivan Bonchev
9. Coin Hoarding in Roman Palestine: 63 BC to AD 300, Joshua Goldman
10. Roman Coin Hoards from Egypt: What Next, Thomas Faucher
Part III: Longevity of Circulation
11. The Imperial Afterlife of Roman Republican Coins and the Phenomenon of the Restored Denarii, Bernhard E. Woytek
12. Hoarding of Denarii and the Reforms of Nero and Septimius Severus, Kevin Butcher and Matthew Ponting
13. Coin Supply and Longevity of Circulation: Three Case Studies from Hoards in Northwest Europe, Benjamin D. R. Hellings
14. The End of the Small Change Economy in Northern Gaul in the Fourth and the Fifth Centuries ad, Johan van Heesch
15. Forms of largitio and Denominations of Silver Plate in Late Antiquity: the Evidence of Flanged bowls, Richard Hobbs