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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewThis volume contains a wide range of contributions with intriguing insights into where the CHRE project is headed or could head as it brings a wealth of newly assembled data to bear on the history of Rome and its economy. They also raise important questions and contribute to debates about coins' ideological role, their economic role, and the effective use of numismatic data within an interdisciplinary analysis. * David Schwei, Episcopal School of Jacksonville, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
When a well-known publisher like Oxford University Press announces a 350-page book on Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World, then not only numismatists but also classical scholars from other disciplines have to sit up and take notice. * Günther E. Thüry,, PLEKOS, the electronic review journal of Late Antiquity *
Its vast ambition means that this volume is in many ways a place-marker-an introduction, a tentative description, and an exploration of possibilities. The project has been characterized by collective agency and flexibility, and that extends to an openness to the intellectual fruits to be garnered. * Greece & Rome *
The volume represents a milestone in the study of Roman hoards in which numismatists, ancient historians and archaeologists can find a mine of informative and noteworthy contributions. * Antonino Crisà, Classical Review *
Table of ContentsPart I: Approaches 1: Chris Howgego and Andrew Wilson: Introduction: Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World 2: Kris Lockyear: Simplifying Complexity Part II: Regional Studies 3: Eleanor Ghey: Hoarding in Roman Britain: an Archaeological and Contextual Approach 4: Antony Hostein and Pierre Nouvel, with the collaboration of Bernadette Soum and Ludovic Trommenschlager: Hoarding in Burgundy, France: Micro-Study of a Region 5: Jerome Mairat: Coin Hoards of the Gallic Empire 6: Athena Iakovidou and Sophia Kremydi: The Interface between East and West in Hoards from Southern Greece and Macedonia 7: Cristian G&azdac: Coin Hoards from Roman Dacia 8: Ivan Bonchev: Third-Century Hoards of Roman Provincial Coins from Moesia Inferior 9: Joshua Goldman: Coin Hoarding in Roman Palestine: 63 BC to AD 300 10: Thomas Faucher: Roman Coin Hoards from Egypt: What Next Part III: Longevity of Circulation 11: Bernhard E. Woytek: The Imperial Afterlife of Roman Republican Coins and the Phenomenon of the Restored Denarii 12: Kevin Butcher and Matthew Ponting: Hoarding of Denarii and the Reforms of Nero and Septimius Severus 13: Benjamin D. R. Hellings: Coin Supply and Longevity of Circulation: Three Case Studies from Hoards in Northwest Europe 14: Johan van Heesch: The End of the Small Change Economy in Northern Gaul in the Fourth and the Fifth Centuries ad 15: Richard Hobbs: Forms of largitio and Denominations of Silver Plate in Late Antiquity: the Evidence of Flanged bowls
