Moneta Britannia - The Coinage of
Roman BritainI can now confirm that this conference will take place in York (UK) on Thursday 14th July 2011. The exact location is yet to be decided but will be central. The day will consist of at least eight papers covering many aspects of the coinage used in
Britain during the
Roman period. Topics already planned include:
• The coinage of
Carausius and
Allectus;
• The
Roman influence on early Anglo-Saxon Coinage;
• Unofficial mints in mid-fourth century
Britain; and
• The
London mint of
Constantine.
We also
hope to arrange sessions on:
• Recent
Romano-British coin hoards;
•
The Gallic Empire coinage; and
• References to
Britannia on
Roman coins.
Further information will be available soon on a dedicated website but you can sign up for email alerts by contacting me here via a PM.
Papers on appropriate numismatic and closely related matters are invited. The closing date for session submissions is 30th November 2010. In the first instance requests to present a paper should be sent via a PM.
This conference will form
part of a broader “Yorkshire Festival of
Numismatics” taking place that week:
The 2011 Leeds International
Medieval Congress takes place from July 11-14 and, with its theme of
Poor . . . Rich, includes a
medieval coinage symposium, SMC @ IMC, covering the
medieval period from 973 to c.1500. This will be probably be held on Wednesday 13th July and is being organised by Tony
Abramson who can be contacted via a PM to me. Further information can be found here
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/.
The York Coin and Stamp
Fair will be held at York Racecourse on Friday 15th July and Saturday 16th July 2011 and it is hoped that the Yorkshire Numismatic Society will be able to host a special meeting at this venue during the course of the show.
The Yorkshire Museum (situated in central York) will have reopened following a nine month refurbishment. The Vale of York treasure will be on display, after being included in a special British Museum exhibition: Treasures from
Medieval York, during the closure. The Vale of York Viking
Hoard includes 600 coins,
complete ornaments, ingots (bars), and chopped-up fragments known as hack silver and was discovered in
North Yorkshire in January 2007 by two metal detectorists.
Look forward to hearing from you,
Lee