Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World

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Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World
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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
		REFERENCES
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
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		REFERENCES
	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
		REFERENCES
	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
		REFERENCES
	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
		CONCLUSION
		ABBREVIATIONS
		REFERENCES
	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
		CONCLUSIONS
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		REFERENCES
			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)
		CONCLUSION
		REFERENCES
	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
			Gold coins
			Silver coins
			Bronze coins
			Radiates
		CONCLUSIONS
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		REFERENCES
	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
		REFERENCES
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
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		ABBREVIATIONS
		REFERENCES
	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
		INTRODUCTION
		NERONIAN AUREI IN HOARDS FROM NORTH-WESTEUROPE
		COIN SUPPLY VERSUS COIN CIRCULATION
		DOMITIANIC SILVER AND MILITARY PAY
		CONCLUSIONS
		REFERENCES
	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
		ABBREVIATIONS
		REFERENCES
	15: Forms of largitio and ‘Denominations’ of Silver Plate in Late Antiquity: The Evidence of Flanged Bowls
		INTRODUCTION
		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
		REFERENCES
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