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Coin hoards and hoarding in the Roman world / edited by Jerome Mairat, Andrew Wilson, Chris Howgego.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford studies on the Roman economy.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies on the Roman economy
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coin hoards.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This volume presents fourteen chapters discussing coin hoarding in the Roman Empire from c. 30 BC to AD 400. The chapters cover topics including the statistics used to analyse patterns of hoarding, regional studies, and the evidence about monetary circulation in the Roman Empire provided by hoard discoveries.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- PART I: APPROACHES
- 1: Introduction: Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World
- THE COIN HOARDS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE PROJECT
- THIS BOOK
- STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES
- HOARD-LEVELANALYSIS
- COIN-LEVELSTUDY
- THE FUTURE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- COLLABORATORS
- REFERENCES
- 2: Simplifying Complexity
- INTRODUCTION
- STATISTICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND NUMISMATICS
- REDUCING THE NUMBER OF DIMENSIONS
- CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS FOR NUMISMATIC DATA
- COIN HOARDS FROM NORTHERN GAUL
- CONCLUSIONS
- Appendix: Running CA in R
- PART II: REGIONAL STUDIES
- 3: Hoarding in Roman Britain: An Archaeological and Contextual Approach
- THE ORIGINS OF THE PROJECT
- THE PROJECT DATASET
- Overview of the dataset
- STUDYING THE LANDSCAPE CONTEXT OF HOARDS
- 4: Hoarding in Burgundy, France: Micro-Studyof a Region
- THE CIVITAS AEDUORUM IN CONTEXT
- HOARDING IN THE CIVITAS AEDUORUM: PRELIMINARY OUTCOMES
- RURAL SETTLEMENTS AND HOARDS IN THE AGER AEDUORUM
- ABBREVIATIONS
- 5: Coin Hoards of the Gallic Empire
- THE GOLD COINAGE
- DENARII, QUINARII, AND MEDALLIONS
- THE BRONZE COINAGE
- THE RADIATES
- HISPANIA
- THE PENETRATION OF THE COINAGE OF THE CENTRAL EMPIRE IN GAUL
- NARBONENSIAN GAUL
- RAETIA, CENTRAL SWITZERLAND, THE SWISS PLATEAU, AND THE AGRI DECUMATES
- CONCLUSION
- 6: The Interface between East and West in Hoards from Southern Greece and Macedonia
- ACHAIA AND THE ISLANDS
- Roman versus local coins in hoards from Augustus to Gallienus (27 bc-ad 268)
- Overview of hoards from Augustus to Domitian (27 bc-ad 96)
- Overview of hoards from Nerva to Commodus (ad 96-192).
- Overview of hoards from Pertinax to Carinus (ad 193-284)
- Hoards closing under Gallienus
- Overview of hoards from Diocletian to Arcadius (ad 284-408)
- MACEDONIA
- Burial hoards
- Non-burialhoards
- 7: Coin Hoards from Roman Dacia
- TRAJAN AND HADRIAN
- A NTONINUS PIUS
- MARCUS AURELIUS
- COMMODUS
- S EPTIMIUS SEVERUS TO MACRINUS
- ELAGABALUS TO SEVERUS ALEXANDER
- GORDIAN III
- Philip I
- Trajan Decius to Trebonianus Gallus
- Valerian I to Aurelian
- MINTS
- Appendix: The structures of hoards from Dacia
- 8: Third-Century Hoards of Roman Provincial Coins from Moesia Inferior
- REIGNS OF GORDIAN III AND PHILIP THE ARAB (AD 238-49)
- FROM TRAJAN DECIUS TO GALLIENUS (AD 249-68)
- FROM CLAUDIUS GOTHICUS TO DIOCLETIAN (ad 268-305)
- 9: Coin Hoarding in Roman Palestine: 63 bc-ad 300
- THE EARLY ROMAN PERIOD: 63 BC-AD 73
- Gold coins
- Silver coins
- Bronze coins
- THE MIDDLE ROMAN PERIOD: AD 73-300
- Radiates
- 10: Roman Coin Hoards from Egypt: What Next?
- HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERIES
- THE ROMAN EGYPTIAN HOARD DATA
- An immense quantity of data
- Roman vs Ptolemaic coins
- Quality and relevance of the data
- FUTURE RESEARCH
- PART III: LONGEVITY OF CIRCULATION
- 11: The Imperial Afterlife of Roman Republican Coins and the Phenomenon of the Restored Denarii
- THE SUBJECT IN CONTEXT
- THE PRECONDITIONS
- THE IMPACT
- THE LEGIONARY DENARII
- TYPOLOGICAL REMINISCENCES AND THE PROBLEM OF THE RESTORED DENARII
- 12: Hoarding of Denarii and the Reforms of Nero and Septimius Severus
- REFERENCES.
- 13: Coin Supply and Longevity of Circulation: Three Case Studies from Hoards in North-West Europe
- NERONIAN AUREI IN HOARDS FROM NORTH-WESTEUROPE
- COIN SUPPLY VERSUS COIN CIRCULATION
- DOMITIANIC SILVER AND MILITARY PAY
- 14: The End of the Small Change Economy in Northern Gaul in the Fourth and the Fifth Centuries ad
- THE PROBLEM OF DISAPPEARING SMALL CHANGE
- THE CONTINUOUS USE OF ROMAN COINS IN THE MIDDLE AGES?
- LATE ROMAN BRONZE HOARDS
- THE CIRCULATION OF LATE ROMAN SMALL CHANGE
- 15: Forms of largitio and 'Denominations' of Silver Plate in Late Antiquity: The Evidence of Flanged Bowls
- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SILVER COINAGE AND SILVER PLATE
- THE LATE ROMAN SILVER CURRENCY
- SYMMACHUS AND THE ISSUE OF SENATORIAL LARGITIO
- FLANGED SILVER BOWLS: EXAMPLES OF 'PRIVATE' OR SENATORIAL LARGITIO?
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-263624-3
- 0-19-263623-5
- 0-19-189852-X
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