In his 44BC work De Officiis, the Roman politician, philosopher and orator Cicero grumbled that in his living memory “…coinage was being tossed around, so that no one was able to know what he had”. For a long time, the senator’s claims of economic turbulence some 2100 years ago were unable to be wholly explained.

Fortunately, new archaeological and historical methods are allowing us to give tangible currency to issues like this, while more broadly providing a greater understanding of how coinage reflected the financial health of ancient Rome.

The European Research Council funded project ‘Rome and the coinages of the Mediterranean’ (835180 RACOM ERC-2018-ADG) hosted a two-day conference at The University of Liverpool on the topic of ‘Metallurgy in Numismatics’ - 19th & 20th April 2022
The full-progamme for the event can be found here: Metallurgy in Numismatics Programme