Ancient Numismatics

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Mandatory attendance
The class will have an introductory theoretical component and a continuous practical component. Existing materials from the Archaeological Institute will be used.
Attendance and participation are required to pass this class.

Learning Outcomes

Students will learn how to classify ancient coins and relate them to the monetary systems they belong to and where they were minted and circulated. They will also learn the potential information that coins from archaeological sites or treasures can provide. Students will also learn to master coin and monetary system vocabulary.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The origin of currency
2. Pre-monetary objects: types and functions
3. Definition of currency
4. Monetary systems
5. The first coins: metrology, metals and characters
6. The manufacturing techniques of coins: smelting and minting
7. Collections and coins
8. Metrology and characteroscopy
9. Currency in Hispania: geography and metrology
10. The roman coin
10.1. Republican monetary system
10.2. Monetary systems of the Empire

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria da Conceição Lopes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

AMANDRY, M. (dir.), La monnaie antique, Paris, 2017.
BURNETT, A., AMANDRY, M., RIPOLLÈS ALEGRE, P. P., Roman Provincial Coinage, I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius (44 BC-AD 69). London-Paris, 1992 = RPC I
CRAWFORD M. H., Roman Republican Coinage. I. Introduction and Catalogue; II. Studies, Plates and Indexes, 2 vol., Cambridge, 1974 = RRC.
GRIERSON Ph., Monnaies et monnayage: introduction à la numismatique, Paris, 1976.
LE RIDER G., La naissance de la monnaie: pratiques monétaires de l'Orient ancien, Paris, 2001.
MATTINGLY H., SYDENHAM E.A., SUTHERLAND C.H.V. [e.a.], The Roman Imperial Coinage, Londres, 1923-1994, 10 tomos = RIC.
METCALF, W. E. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage, Oxford, 2012.
RIPOLLÈS ALEGRE, P. P. Las acuñaciones provinciales romanas de Hispania. Madrid, 2010.
VILLARONGA, L., Corpus nummum Hispaniae ante Augusti aetatem, Madrid, 1994 = CNH.