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Publication Date: April/May 2008

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Summary:

Roman coins were constantly copied across the empire and the situation in Roman Britain was no exception. This book looks at the different aspects of irregular coinage in Britain. General sections on the production methods used to manufacture contemporary copies and how the student can identify them are followed by a wide range of other papers. These include, with reference to the third century, an overview of irregular radiate production in Norfolk, in-depth studies of the material from two coining sites in the county and new arguments about the nature of minim production on the basis of three recent hoards. Later papers consider the Constantinian copies of the 330s and 340s with particular reference to the reconstruction of individual mint groups through stylistic and metallurgical analyses. Other chapters are devoted to significant individual finds that have remained hitherto unpublished. The book is lavishly illustrated with maps and numerous photographs.

Author

Adrian Marsden completed his Doctorate on portraiture and propaganda in the late Roman empire at Oxford University in 2001. After writing an identification guide on Roman coins, he began working for Norfolk Landscape Archaeology’s Identification and Recording Service as their Numismatist in 2002, a position he still holds. His research interests include irregular Roman coinage, the Roman coinage of the third and fourth centuries and the English seventeenth century token series.

Contents

• Differentiating between regular and irregular coins

• Manufacturing methods

• Early plated denarii from Norfolk

• A silver gilt foil disc, possibly from a plated aureus copy of Severus Alexander

• A group of coin moulds in Norwich Castle Museum

• Irregular radiate production in third-century Norfolk – an overview

• Evidence for a third-century forgers’ den near Colkirk, Norfolk

• An irregular coining operation at Rocklands, Norfolk

• The East Winch, West Acre and Scole hoards; new light on radiate minim copying

• Carausius’ RSR mint – from irregular to official

• A trial strike of an irregular Carausian reverse in lead

• Contemporary copies of Constantine’s wolf and twins coinage; establishing the framework of an imitative mint

• Extending the framework of the so-called Principal mint: additional workshops

• ‘Mint IV’; an irregular workshop producing Constantinian copies

• The ‘fish-faced’ group of Constantinian imitations

• The ‘wreath and branches’ group of Constantinian wolf and twins imitations

• A lead cliché coin mould from Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire