Coin Finds and Monetization in the Roman Northwest. This item is unavailable.Coin Finds and Monetization in the Roman Northwest

The expansion of Rome into northwestern Europe brought with it the presence and the increased usage of coinage both within the empire and in the Barbaricum. Coin Finds and Monetization in the Roman Northwest presents a study of coin finds and the monetary economy of northwestern continental Europe over much of the Roman period (c. 50 bc-ad 274). One of the largest datasets of coin finds ever assembled is deployed to analyze distribution patterns and fluctuations over time and space. It is clear that the Roman state made a concerted effort to manage coinage and the monetary economy during its rule in northwestern Europe, to the extent that was possible. Regionality is, however, a key feature of the coined monetary economy that resulted from deliberate action or the state's inability to respond to demand, underscoring how centralized and empire-wide factors had an impact in the study region. Publication of this book has been aided by a grant from the von Bothmer Publication Fund of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Benjamin D. R. Hellings holds MPhil and DPhil degrees from the University of Oxford, where his research focused on coin-find patterns and the use of Roman coins in northern Europe. He started at Yale University Art Gallery as the Ben Lee Damsky Assistant Curator in September 2016, shortly after submitting his dissertation, and now oversees the Department of Numismatics there as the Jackson-Tomasko Associate Curator. He has published on a wide range of subjects, from Greek and Roman to early American coinage, seventeenth-century medals, as well as American bank notes and related material. In 2024, he published The Naseby Cup: Coins and Medals of the English Civil War, distributed by Yale University Press.