Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2022

Tracing Roman gold stocks with LA-ICP-MS analysis of coins from the Second Punic War to the end of the first century CE

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A large data set of analyses of Roman gold coins through LA-ICP-MS sheds light on the development of gold coinage under the Republic and the early Empire. As is well known, gold coinage was a late comer in Roman monetary history and large issues remained rare until the age of Caesar. After Caesar however, gold coinage became a regular feature of the Roman monetary system. This major change in the history of Roman money raises many questions about logistics, gold stocks, and mints. The chemical fingerprints of Roman gold coins reveal the flows of gold stocks in the Roman world over three centuries. The main result is that there is not a fully homogeneous gold stock in use in the Roman world during this period of time and that chemical relationships can often be established between gold minted by Rome at a given time and foreign coins previously struck.

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hal-04007400 , version 1 (28-02-2023)

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Arnaud Suspène, Maryse Blet-Lemarquand. Tracing Roman gold stocks with LA-ICP-MS analysis of coins from the Second Punic War to the end of the first century CE. XVI International Numismatic Congress, Sep 2022, Warsaw, Poland. ⟨hal-04007400⟩
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