Coin Hoarding in the Roman Empire
Many thousands of coin hoards have been found throughout the geographical area which once constituted the Roman Empire. The information provided by these hoards has the potential to transform our understanding of coin supply, circulation and use, as well as having implications for the study of the Roman economy and the archaeology of religion and ritual. The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project aims to provide a comprehensive summary of this data, thus filling a major lacuna in the digital coverage of hoards from antiquity. This conference will present results from the first three years of the project, as well as exploring new approaches to the study of coin hoards and hoarding and outlining the potential for future research. Papers will form the basis of a monograph on Roman hoarding in the Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy series, published by Oxford University Press.
Programme
| Thursday 15th September | |
| 09.30 |
Welcome and introductory remarks
Chris Howgego, Andrew Wilson and Lorne Thyssen |
| 10.00 |
Coin Hoarding in the Roman world: an Empire-wide perspective
Philippa Walton (University of Oxford) |
| 10.40 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 |
Numerical and statistical approaches to studying Imperial hoards
Kris Lockyear (UCL) |
| 11.40 |
Metallurgical perspectives on coin hoards
Kevin Butcher (University of Warwick) and Matt Ponting (University of Liverpool) |
| 12.20 | Spatial analysis of hoard data Andy Bevan (UCL) |
| 13.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00 |
Hoarding in Roman Britain: an archaeological and contextual approach
Eleanor Ghey (The British Museum) |
| 14.40 |
Hoarding in Burgundy, France. A micro-study of a region
Antony Hostein (Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Pierre Nouvel (Université Franche-Comté-Besançon) |
| 15.20 | Coffee break |
| 15.40 | The interface between East and West (local versus imperial) as seen in hoards from Greece and Macedonia Sophia Kremydi and Athena Iakovidou (National Hellenic Research Foundation) |
| 16.20 |
'The Far Side'. Coin hoards from the Barbaricum
Alec Bursche (University of Warsaw) and David Wigg-Wolf (Römisch-Germanische Kommission) |
| Friday 16th September | |
| 09.30 | Dating civic hoards of the third century - a response to Gothic raids or monetary reform? Ivan Bonchev (University of Oxford) |
| 10.10 |
Coin hoards on the Mediterranean coast in the first to third centuries AD: regionality and circulation patterns
A. Tolga Tek (Anadolu University, Ankara) |
| 10.50 |
Coinage reform as seen through Roman hoards in Egypt
Thomas Faucher (CNRS) |
| 11.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.50 |
Republican coins in Imperial hoards
Bernhard Woytek (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) |
| 12.30 |
Date of issue versus date of deposition. The implications of using hoards to date site finds
Ben Hellings (Yale University Art Gallery) |
| 13.10 | Political borders and coin circulation: the case of the Gallic Empire Jerome Mairat (University of Oxford) |
| 13.40 |
Lunch and poster presentation session |
| 14.40 |
The end of Roman hoarding in the North Western provinces
Johan van Heesch (Coin Cabinet, Royal Library of Belgium) |
| 15.20 |
Hoards of silver plate as currency
Richard Hobbs (The British Museum) |
| 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.20 |
Hoards, weights, wear and circulation
John Creighton (University of Reading) |
| 17.00 | Concluding remarks Andrew Wilson and Chris Howgego (University of Oxford) |
