Conveners
S50. ROME 16. FINDS AND CIRCULATION 3
- Vincent Drost (Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Sciences de L'information Et Des Bibliothèques)
La publication d’un multiple d’or inédit de Constantin Ier pour l’atelier de Trèves est l’occasion de faire le point sur la date de l’introduction du solidus dans les domaines de Constantin, de dresser un inventaire des multiples de l’atelier de Trèves, de les comparer avec des pièces unifaces apparues récemment sur le marché numismatique et de revenir sur les trouvailles exceptionnelles...
This project started with excavations in Lamego by the company Arqueologia & Património between 2011 and 2016, which brought hundreds of Roman coins to the surface. The goal was to catalogue all of them, interpret their straigraphic distribution and reconstruct the coin groups as they were at the time of loss. Thus, two groups were identified; one with 161 coins and another with 700; the...
A very recent study of monetary circulation in Roman Aquileia during Late Antiquity included an analysis of patterns of coin distribution across the north eastern border of the Diocesis Italiciana. It was found that during the period under study the defensive system known as Claustra Alpium Iuliarum became a closed frontier for the circulation of coins between Italy and the Balkans. This area...
In the early 1970s rescue excavations funded by the Dumbarton Oaks Center and Kelsey Museum (Michigan University) were conducted at Dibsi Faraj (Syria). Except for preliminary reports neither the excavations nor the materials recovered (1,676 coins were found) were subsequently published. The archive of the excavations is currently preserved at Durham University.
Roman and Byzantine coins had...
