RACOM Project Videos

Dr Matthew Pointing taking a drilled sample of a coin at Yale University Art Gallery & Museum, October 2019

Videos from the RACOM Conference, British School at Rome, 17-18 April 2023

17 April, morning session (Chair: Adrian Hillier)

Kevin Butcher

Welcome and introduction

Matthew Ponting

RACOM and the archaeometallurgy of silver

Charles Parisot-Sillon

Predators turned rentiers. Roman conquest and silver supply strategies during the 2nd century BCE

Alice Sharpless, Liv Yarrow, and Lucia Carbone (with additional content from Kris Lockyear)

Economic Fears and Realities in the 80s BCE

17 April, afternoon session (Chair: Andrew Meadows)

Bernhard Woytek

Arma et nummi twenty years on. Some remarks on new metallurgical data for the silver coinages of the 40s BC

Arnaud Suspène and Maryse Blet-Lemarquand

Roman silver coinage of the triumviral period: new insights from MP-AES and LA-ICP-MS analyses

Eleni Papaefthymiou

The presence of Roman Republican denarii in the eastern Mediterranean during the 1st century BC

18 April, morning session (Chair: David Wigg-Wolf)

Adrian Hillier, Tolu Agoro, Katsu Ishida, Matthew Ponting, Kevin Butcher

Probing beneath the surface without a scratch: a negative muon investigation of late Hellenistic and early Roman imperial coins

Sophia Kremydi

The contribution of recent metal analysis to the monetary policies of the late Antigonids and the Romans

Catherine Grandjean, Maryse Blet-Lemarquand

The last Peloponnesian silver coins

Lucia Carbone

Was the cistophorus a 'Roman' coinage? Continuities and discontinuities in the cistophoric production of the second and first century BC

Andrew Meadows

Later Hellenistic silver coinages of western and southern Asia Minor

18 April, afternoon session (Chair: Liv Yarrow)

François de Callataÿ

The silver coinages of the late eastern Hellenistic Kingdoms (Pontus, Bithynia, Cappadocia and Parthia): some preliminary remarks about their metal content

Frédérique Duyrat

North and South. Two regional cultures of silver minting in the Levant

Julien Olivier, Thomas Faucher and Maryse Blet-Lemarquand

From owls to eagles. The metallic stocks of Egyptian coins (5th century BC - 1st century AD)

Andrew Burnett

Closing remarks