Rome and the Coinages of the Mediterranean: 200 BCE to 64 CE

Project Information

RACOM

Grant agreement ID: 835180

DOI

10.3030/835180

Project closed

EC signature date 20 May 2019

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 484 832,00

EU contribution

€ 2 484 832,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Crisis? What crisis? Recycling of silver for Roman Republican coinage

Author(s): Jonathan R. Wood, Matthew Ponting, Kevin Butcher
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 15, 2023, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01854-w

Mints not Mines: a macroscale investigation of Roman silver coinage

Author(s): null null, Jonathan R. Wood, Matthew Ponting, null null, Kevin Butcher, null null
Published in: Internet Archaeology, Issue 61, 2024, ISSN 1363-5387
Publisher: Council for British Archaeology
DOI: 10.11141/ia.61.10

Determining weight standards of debased ancient silver-copper alloy coinages

Author(s): Kevin Butcher
Published in: Numismatic Chronicle, Issue 81, 2024, Page(s) 25-38, ISSN 0078-2696
Publisher: Royal Numismatic Society

Monographic books (3)

Rome and the Coinages of the Mediterranean. Proceedings of an International Conference, Rome, 17-18 April 2023

Author(s): Kevin Butcher (editor)
Published in: Royal Numismatic Society Special Publications, 2026
Publisher: Royal Numismatic Society

Metallurgy in Numismatics

Author(s): Matthew Ponting
Published in: Metallurgy in Numismatics, Issue 7, 2026
Publisher: Royal Numismatic Society

The Metallurgy of Roman Silver Coinage From the Imperial Republic to the Reform of Nero, c. 150 BC to AD 64

Author(s): Kevin Butcher, Matthew Ponting
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Book chapters (3)

The Debasement of the Denarius in the 80s <scp>bc</scp>

Author(s): Kevin Butcher, Matthew Ponting
Published in: Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, 11–16.09.2022, Warsaw, Vol. <scp>ii</scp>, Roman Numismatics, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 101-108, ISBN 978-2-503-61673-5
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
DOI: 10.1484/m.wsa-eb.5.145088

La présence des deniers républicains en Méditerranée orientale durant les troisième et deuxième siècles avant J.-C.

Author(s): Eleni G. Papaefthtymiou
Published in: Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, 11–16.09.2022, Warsaw, Vol. <scp>ii</scp>, Roman Numismatics, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 469-480, ISBN 978-2-503-61673-5
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
DOI: 10.1484/m.wsa-eb.5.145128

Identifying episodes of recycling in the archaeological record

Author(s): Jonathan R. Wood
Published in: Economic Circularity in the Roman and Early Medieval Worlds, 2024, Page(s) 63-84, ISBN 978-1-78925-997-1
Publisher: Oxbow Books
DOI: 10.2307/jj.10474605.10

Conference proceedings (6)

Introduction: Fifty years of scientific analysis of coinage

Author(s): Matthew Ponting
Published in: Metallurgy in Numismatics, Issue 7, 2026, Page(s) Not yet known
Publisher: Royal Numismatic Society

Measuring silver debasement in antiquity

Author(s): Kevin Butcher, Matthew Ponting
Published in: Proceedings of the Third International Congress on the History of Money and Numismatics in the Mediterranean World, April 1-4, 2024, Antalya, 2025, Page(s) 261-273
Publisher: Koc University, Turkey

Probing beneath the surface without a scratch: a negative muon investigation of late Hellenistic and early Roman imperial coins

Author(s): Adrian Hillier, Tolu Agoro, Katsu Ishida, Matthew Ponting, Kevin Butcher
Published in: Rome and the Coinages of the Mediterranean. Proceedings of an International Conference, Rome, 17-18 April 2023, 2026, Page(s) Not yet known
Publisher: Royal Numismatic Society

RACOM and the archaeometallurgy of silver

Author(s): Matthew Ponting
Published in: Rome and the Coinages of the Mediterranean. Proceedings of an International Conference, Rome, 17-18 April 2023, 2026, Page(s) Not yet known
Publisher: Royal Numismatic Society

Non-destructively probing the core composition of coinages of the Mediterranean by using muonic X-rays

Author(s): Adrian Hillier
Published in: Metallurgy in Numismatics, Issue 7, 2026, Page(s) Not yet known
Publisher: Royal Numismatic Society

The presence of Roman Republican denarii in the eastern Mediterranean during the first century BCE

Author(s): Eleni Papaefthymiou
Published in: Rome and the Coinages of the Mediterranean. Proceedings of an International Conference, Rome, 17-18 April 2023, 2026, Page(s) Not yet known
Publisher: Royal Numismatic Society