The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project

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Coin hoards of the Roman Empire project: all about hoards from within and outside the Empire @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Posts by @gordien3a.bsky.social 🏛 https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk

đź“– Newly published: B. Hellings, M. Spoerri Butcher (@gordien3a.bsky.social) and C. Howgego (eds), Roman Coin Hoards across Frontiers (Oxford, 2026). doi.org/10.1093/9780... An impressive amount of new evidence for our understanding of the reach of Rome and the connectivity of the ancient world!

Roman Coin Hoards Across Frontiers

Abstract. The book presents an introduction and thirteen other chapters on the hoarding of Roman coin outside the Roman Empire from c. 30 bc to ad 518, and

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This rare bronze purse was found with six #gold coins still inside in the #Celtic oppidum (settlement) at Manching. It was originally sealed with an organic material, presumably a leather strap. The purse is rather small: 4.3x3.3 cm. The diameter of the smallest coin is 6.5 mm.🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

A metal money box made of bronze, rests on display. The oval-shaped container has an open slot where several gold coins have spilled onto the surface below.

Fantastic news: our project is joining the Linked Open Data cloud! Many thanks to @ewg118.bsky.social for making this possible! #numismatics #lawdi #LODLAM

Ethan Gruber@ewg118.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks to an export from @gordien3a.bsky.social, almost 5000 coin hoards of the Roman Empire have been linked to about 14000 coin types in OCRE, greatly expanding geographic visualization, from Hadrian's Wall to India. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/02/coin... #lawdi #LODLAM #classicsbluesky

🪙Archaeology enthusiasts Reinier Koelink and Gert-Jan Messelaar discovered a rare hoard of 404 Roman and British coins near Bunnik, Utrecht, shedding new light on the Roman conquest of Britain.

Video. Rare Roman-British coin hoard found in the Netherlands

Video. Archaeology enthusiasts Reinier Koelink and Gert-Jan Messelaar discovered a rare hoard of 404 Roman and British coins near Bunnik, Utrecht, shedding new light on the Roman conquest of Britain.

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