Coin Hoards from Roman Britain

[Victor]

"Coin hoards from Roman Britain" is a series of 13 volumes. I have volumes 7- 13, and I thought it would be worthwhile to list the volumes that LRB people might find interesting. I did not list anything about volumes 4 and 6 because I have heard that there are not any LRB hoards in them. I did not list every hoard in each volume as some have numerous hoards, for example vol 12 has 55 hoards.


CHRB 1. Chorleywood hoard 4,358 coins  mid-4th  330-348    Hamble hoard  2,494 A.D. 330- 335

CHRB 2. Bicester hoard   440 coins   A.D. 317- 348

CHRB 3. Blackmoor Hoard   29, 773 coins  circa A.D. 293

CHRB 4. ---

CHRB 5. Has some LRB hoards, but I don't know which ones.

CHRB 6. ---

CHRB 7. several LRB hoards, mostly Constantinian. 18 hoards in total, the largest is the Cae Bardd of 4716 plus 271 coins ending A.D. 328

CHRB 8. 18 hoards, the main one and focus of the book is The Normanby Hoard of Roman 3rd Century Antoninianii 47,898 third century radiates A.D. 253- 284

CHRB 9. Chalfont Hoard  6,628 coins, mostly debased ants from the later 3rd century.

CHRB 10. 60 hoards, at least 20 of interest to LRB enthusiasts.  Chapmanslade had 5,200 to A.D. 337

CHRB 11. early Imperial period through AD 235

CHRB 12. 55 hoards, maybe half would be of interest to LRB collectors most famous are Langtoft II of 923 coins ending in the 320's and the Grassmoor Hoard of 1422 coins ending in A.D. 340

CHRB 13. Gloucester Hoard  over 15,000 coins A.D. 270- 293. Includes two smaller hoards of Carausius and Allectus.


Wikipedia has a page on some of these coin hoards- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_hoards_in_Great_Britain

[Victor]

this book is not part of the CHRB series, but it is a fantastic addition to your library if you have any interest in British hoards

"This long-awaited inventory collates material from more than 1,900 coin hoards, comprising c.640,000 coins, found in Britain and dating from the 1st to early 5th century AD. Robertson describes it as `a corpus amenable to unlimited exploitation'. Entries are listed chronologically by Emperor and include descriptions of the coins, details on the find spots, the containers of the hoards and objects found in association. This large volume forms an important source of reference for Roman Britain and numismatic studies in general, and highlights the continued practice of hoarding throughout the Roman occupation of Britain."


lots of interesting information and fun trivia like how the writer of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that in the year 418 the Romans collected all the hoards of coins that were in Britain and hid some in the earth and carried some with them to Gaul.

or the story of how in 1858 farmworkers found the Cowlam hoard while plowing..."The twelve lads who were ploughing all wanted some (coins) in their pockets...you should have seen the lads reaching over the pankin, and scrimpin the money in...They said "We'll nivver work na mair."

how about this-- did people in antiquity collect coins? Well, "In 1794, was also found at Rowley Regis, an earthen globe, containing about 1200 similar coins in silver, which, when all together, formed a complete series of Roman emperors."     Gent. Mag. 1796


520 pages, stuffed with numismatic tidbits. It's not often that coin books are fun, but this one is for me.