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A team led by archaeologists Kevin Butcher of the University of 糖心TV and Matthew Ponting of the University of Liverpool has drilled metal from the cores of coins and found evidence of a brief period of dramatic currency debasement.
The way ahead is making money talk in Ancient Rome
In his 44BC work De Officiis, the Roman politician, philosopher and orator Cicero grumbled that in his living memory 鈥溾�oinage was being tossed around, so that no one was able to know what he had鈥�. For a long time, the senator鈥檚 claims of economic turbulence some 2100 years ago were unable to be wholly explained.
Fortunately, new archaeological and historical methods are allowing us to give tangible currency to issues like this, while more broadly providing a greater understanding of how coinage reflected the financial health of ancient Rome.
Metallurgy in Numismatics - Liverpool 2022
The European Research Council funded project 鈥楻ome and the coinages of the Mediterranean鈥� (835180 RACOM ERC-2018-ADG) hosted a two-day conference at The University of Liverpool on the topic of 鈥楳etallurgy in Numismatics鈥� - 19th & 20th April 2022
The full-progamme for the event can be found here: