About

Dr Marguerite Spoerri Butcher studied History, Archaeology and German at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. After graduating, she became curator of the Numismatic Department at the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Neuchâtel from 1991 to 1999. During that time, she organized several exhibitions and conferences, was an active member of the Swiss Group for Coin Finds (SAF/GSETM) and the Swiss Numismatic Society and completed her PhD at the University of Neuchâtel. Since then, she has been working on several research projects for institutions such as the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece or the Münzkabinett in Winterthur and taught in various contexts both in the UK and abroad.

Research interests

My main focus of interest is the provincial coinage of the Roman Empire. In my PhD, I investigated the coinage of Gordian III (238-244) minted in the province of Asia. Aspects I am more specifically interested in include iconography, organisation of the coin production and institutional aspects. More recently, I have started to focus on patterns of coin circulation in Greece during the Roman period and have extended the geographical scope of my investigation to North Africa (coinage of Juba II).

I am involved in a number of numismatic research projects:

• Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• Roman Provincial Coinage, volumes 7.2 (238-244) and 8 (244-249)
• Griechische Münzen in Winterthur vol. III
• Coin finds from Eretria (Greece)
• IGCH 2307 and the coinage of Juba II of Mauretania

Selected publications

• Online publication: Roman Provincial Coinage VII.1, Gordian I – Gordian III (238-244), Province of Asia (http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk)
• «Le monnayage d’argent émis par le roi Juba II de Maurétanie (I) : catalogue des monnaies datées», Revue Suisse de Numismatique 94 (2015): 33-114.
• «Provincial Coinages: Eastern Provinces», in: C. Arnold-Biucchi, M. Caccamo Caltabiano, Survey of Numismatic Research 2008-2013, Taormina, 2015: 228-243 (with D. Calomino).
• Roman Provincial Coinage, Consolidated Supplement I-III (1992-2015), Oxford, 2015 (with P.P. Ripollès, M. Amandry, A. Burnett and I. Carradice)
• Roman Provincial Coinage VII, De Gordien Ier à Gordien III (238-244 apr. J.-C.) 1. Province d'Asie (London: British Museum Press – Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2006) 395 pp.
• «Un trésor d'antoniniens trouvé à Erétrie en 2011 : questions de circulation monétaire en Grèce au milieu du IIIe siècle», Revue Suisse de Numismatique 91, 2012: 111-206 (with A. Casoli).
• «Erétrie (Eubée) aux époques romaine, paléochrétienne et médiévale : l'apport des trouvailles monétaires à l'histoire de la cité», in: N. Badoud (ed.), Philologos Dionysios. Mélanges offerts au professeur Denis Knoepfler, Genève 2011: 423-465.
• «Dénominations et systèmes monétaires en Asie Mineure à l'époque romaine: A propos de Greek Imperial Denominations et des colonies romaines», Revue Suisse de Numismatique 88, 2009 : 217-224.
• «Erétrie sous l'Empire romain: le monnayage de la cité», Antike Kunst 50, 2007 : 141-150.
• «L'organisation de la production monétaire au sein de la province d'Asie à l'époque de Gordien III (238-244)», Revue Suisse de Numismatique 85, 2006 : 97-128.

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Professional associations

• Swiss Numismatic Society (on the committee board from 1994 to 1999)
• Swiss Society for the Study of Antiquity (Association suisse pour l'étude de l'antiquité).
• Swiss school of Archaeology in Greece

Qualifications

• Licence ès Lettres (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
• PhD (Neuchâtel)