The London Mint of Constantius and Constantine: Second Revised Edition

The London mint catalogue from 296 to 325 redefines our understanding of late roman coinage in Britain.

This new edition of LMCC remains the comprehensive catalogue and survey of the coinage of the London mint from AD 296, when Constantius I recaptured Britain from the usurper, Allectus, to its closure in AD 325 when his son and successor, Constantine I, began to shift his power base to the East. LMCC II continues our earlier expansion and revision of the London portions of Volumes VI and VII of The Roman Imperial Coinage by incorporating new types discovered since 2015 and expanding the census tables based on the population totals from several major new hoards. As Sam Moorhead notes in his foreword to this second edition, this catalogue is now recognized as the standard reference work on the London mint coins of this period and is used by both the British Museum and the Portable Antiquities Scheme when cataloguing these coins.

Hugh Cloke received his Ph.D. in literature from the University of Chicago and was, for forty years, a faculty member and administrator at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He retired in 2013 as an emeritus dean. His research and teaching interests focused on the role of Roman ruins in the works of 18th and 19-century American writers and visual artists and extended to coinage through the chance purchase of a small Constantinian bronze for his son in 1992. Over the intervening thirty years his interests in the coinage of the Tetrarchic period have evolved from collecting to researching their history and constructing a narrative that makes these objects intelligible. The present work is the result of a sixteen-year collaborative effort with Lee, which has branched out to collaborative cataloguing of several major hoards.

Lee Toone has been involved in numismatics for over fifty years. For the last thirty of these he has concentrated on Roman numismatics and numismatic books. He is now a full time numismatist. Since 2008 he has published a number of books and papers on the London mint including the first edition of this volume, most of these have been part of a long and productive collaboration with Hugh. During the last few years he and Hugh have been working on the London components of several recent hoards discovered here in the UK and on the continent. Having lived in Yorkshire for thirty years, the last eight of those a mere stone’s throw from where Constantine was raised to the purple, he hopes to be anointed an honorary Yorkshireman before much longer.

Adrian Marsden completed his D. Phil. in Roman Imperial portraiture and propaganda at Oxford University in 2000. He has worked for Norfolk’s Identification and Recording Service since 2002. He is currently the county’s Numismatist and identifies coins of all periods brought in for recording. His main research interests are the Roman Imperial coinage, Early Medieval numismatics, fakes and forgeries of coins in general and the seventeenth-century token series.