Conveners
S33. CELTIC 2. CELTIC & REPUBLICAN COINS
- Sylvia Nieto-Pelletier (IRAMAT, CNRS-Univ. Orléans)
This paper presents the results of work on two recent finds of British Iron Age coin hoards. A hoard from the New Forest consists of two discrete silver deposits with evidence for deliberate damage and destruction of coinage. It contains a mixture of South Western and Southern coinage, including a number of new types.
The second, the Baddow, Essex hoard, is the largest British gold hoard...
Until the 1970s, linking archaeological data to historical events documented in the literary sources was a common approach in archaeological studies. Despite its limitations this method is still frequently used. There are many interpretations of the consequences of the migrations of the Cimbri and Teutones, which according to some texts swept Europe at the end of the 2nd century BC. One of...
Si presenta la composizione del cospicuo ripostiglio di 562 monete d’argento rinvenuto nel 1938 in una cassettina di legno nel corso delle indagini di Amedeo Maiuri nel Cardo IV di Ercolano e custodito nel Medagliere del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (inv. 1947). Il ripostiglio, inedito, consente di discutere il quadro di affermazione del denario d’argento nell’ultima fase di vita...
