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Roman Coinage in the Western Empire*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Richard Reece
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, London

Extract

The coins which form the basis for this discussion, summarized in Tables I to IV (facing p. 252), have been published in more detail in the Numismatic Chronicle (Southern France 1964, northern Italy 1971, northern France 1972) and in Britannia iii, 269-76, where full details of the nature, location and peculiarities of the groups may be found, together with a subjective estimate of each group's archaeological reliability. For ease of reference the full names of the groups, and the periods into which the coinage has been divided is repeated:

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Britannia , Volume 4 , November 1973 , pp. 227 - 251
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Copyright © Richard Reece 1973. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 The World of Late Antiquity (London 1971), 22–6.

2 Britannia iii (1972), 269-76.

3 Proceedings of the Third Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Rheinfelden), 61.

4 J. P. C. Kent in Roman Imperial Coinage viii (forthcoming).

5 See also Luke xv, 8-9, a reference I owe to Professor S. S. Frere.

6 I am very grateful to Mr. Ian Hodder for pointing out that this calculation can only be regarded as reasonable if it is assumed that all the transactions of this ‘prosperous shop-keeper’ were conducted for cash—a point as yet completely speculative.