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AVREVS. Le Pouvoir de l’or / The Power of Gold

AVREVS. Le Pouvoir de l’or / The Power of Gold
Publication year 2023
Languages English, French
Number of pages 556
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L224282

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Types of objects Standard circulation coins

The volume "AVREVS. Le Pouvoir de l'or / The Power of Gold" presents the economic, political, social and cultural uses of coined gold in the West (IVe s. a.C. - 69 p.C.). It contains the proceedings of the closing colloquium of a research project funded by the Centre-Val de Loire Region, the "AVREVS. À la naissance du monnayage d'or romain : étude et caractérisation de l'or monnayé en Occident de la fin de la période hellénistique au premier siècle de notre ère". This project, made possible by a partnership between IRAMAT's Centre Ernest-Babelon (UMR 7065, CNRS-Université d'Orléans) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France's Département des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques, aimed to study the appearance of the first Roman gold coinage, the culmination of a centuries-old tradition dating back to the origins of coinage. Presented in this volume and obtained using innovative archaeometric methods, the results of the physico-chemical analysis of almost 1,000 coins from the main Western gold coinages (Africa, Greece, Italy, the Celtic world, Spain) and jewels from French heritage collections provide a better understanding of the mobilization and control of gold stocks, transfer phenomena and the circulation of gold in the periods concerned, by placing them in the general history of coined gold. This volume also sheds interdisciplinary light on the issues and problems relating to gold, whether coined or not, in Western Europe at the time of the advent of the Roman Empire. It examines the role of gold in war expenditure; the cultural and symbolic aspects of gold; its reception and imagination; and its political and economic role. In short, the AVREVS volume takes a fresh look at the question of the various Western gold coinages and their gradual replacement by Roman gold coins, thanks to a broad, global approach that has been lacking until now.

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