11–16 Sept 2022
University of Warsaw
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Session

S30. ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES 4. MOVEMENT OF COINS IN ASIA – ARCHAEOLOGY NUMISMATICS AND NETWORKS – SILK ROAD

S30
16 Sept 2022, 09:00
Auditorium Maximum - Hall A

Auditorium Maximum - Hall A

Conveners

S30. ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES 4. MOVEMENT OF COINS IN ASIA – ARCHAEOLOGY NUMISMATICS AND NETWORKS – SILK ROAD

  • Joe Cribb (Hebei Normal Universtiy)
  • Emilia Smagur (University of Warsaw)

S30. ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES 4. MOVEMENT OF COINS IN ASIA – ARCHAEOLOGY NUMISMATICS AND NETWORKS – SILK ROAD

  • Emilia Smagur (University of Warsaw)
  • Joe Cribb (Hebei Normal Universtiy)

Description

Org. and chair: Joe Cribb, Emilia Smagur

This panel will examine the movement of coins overland and by sea in Asia, with particular focus on movements along the so-called Silk Road, both on land and by sea.
The evidence of coin finds, designs and composition will be used to interrogate the routes, the sources and destinations of trade, the impacts on local monetary systems and cultures, and the establishment of networks.
Coins often provide the only surviving tangible evidence of the presence of peoples and goods which have travelled great distances by land or sea. The finds of Roman coins in India have long been the focus of research, but more recent discoveries of far-travelled coins in Central Asia and South East Asia, together with imported non-Roman coins in South Asia have revealed a more intense, widespread and long-lasting movement of coins in Asia. These new discoveries and a re-evaluation of the evidence from South Asian finds of Roman coins have opened up new approaches to research and to understanding the significance of such finds.

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