Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World

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.

• Part I: Approaches1: Chris Howgego and Andrew Wilson: Introduction: Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World2: Kris Lockyear: Simplifying ComplexityPart II: Regional Studies3: Eleanor Ghey: Hoarding in Roman Britain: an Archaeological and Contextual Approach4: Antony Hostein and Pierre Nouvel, with the collaboration of Bernadette Soum and Ludovic Trommenschlager: Hoarding in Burgundy, France: Micro-Study of a Region5: Jerome Mairat: Coin Hoards of the Gallic Empire6: Athena Iakovidou and Sophia Kremydi: The Interface between East and West in Hoards from Southern Greece and Macedonia7: Cristian G&azdac: Coin Hoards from Roman Dacia8: Ivan Bonchev: Third-Century Hoards of Roman Provincial Coins from Moesia Inferior9: Joshua Goldman: Coin Hoarding in Roman Palestine: 63 BC to AD 30010: Thomas Faucher: Roman Coin Hoards from Egypt: What NextPart III: Longevity of Circulation11: Bernhard E. Woytek: The Imperial Afterlife of Roman Republican Coins and the Phenomenon of the Restored Denarii12: Kevin Butcher and Matthew Ponting: Hoarding of Denarii and the Reforms of Nero and Septimius Severus13: Benjamin D. R. Hellings: Coin Supply and Longevity of Circulation: Three Case Studies from Hoards in Northwest Europe14: Johan van Heesch: The End of the Small Change Economy in Northern Gaul in the Fourth and the Fifth Centuries ad15: Richard Hobbs: Forms of largitio and Denominations of Silver Plate in Late Antiquity: the Evidence of Flanged bowls

This 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.