Description:
This volume presents fourteen chapters discussing coin hoarding in the Roman Empire from c. 30 BC to AD 400. The chapters cover topics including the statistics used to analyse patterns of hoarding, regional studies, and the evidence about monetary circulation in the Roman Empire provided by hoard discoveries.
Review Quotes: "This volume contains a wide range of contributions with intriguing insights into where the CHRE project is headed or could head as it brings a wealth of newly assembled data to bear on the history of Rome and its economy. They also raise important questions and contribute to debates about coins' ideological role, their economic role, and the effective use of numismatic data within an interdisciplinary analysis." -- David Schwei, Episcopal School of Jacksonville, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"When a well-known publisher like Oxford University Press announces a 350-page book on Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World, then not only numismatists but also classical scholars from other disciplines have to sit up and take notice." -- Günther E. Thüry, PLEKOS, the electronic review journal of Late Antiquity "Its vast ambition means that this volume is in many ways a place-marker-an introduction, a tentative description, and an exploration of possibilities. The project has been characterized by collective agency and flexibility, and that extends to an openness to the intellectual fruits to be garnered." -- Greece & Rome"The volume represents a milestone in the study of Roman hoards in which numismatists, ancient historians and archaeologists can find a mine of informative and noteworthy contributions." -- Antonino Crisà, Classical Review