New British Museum Book on Tetrarchic Hoards

[leetoone]

The British Museum has just published a research volume on Tetrarchic hoards. A lo-res PDF download is available here.

https://britishmuseum.iro.bl.uk/concern/books/c640c432-9184-49eb-9676-28f95b671655?locale=en

The printed version is available here

https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Recent-Discoveries-of-Tetrarchic-Hoards-from-Roman-Britain-and-their-Wider-Context-Paperback/p/49400

A brief description is:

This volume was prompted by the recent discovery in Britain of two large coin hoards dating from the first decade of the fourth century AD – Wold Newton and Rauceby. Coins of this early Tetrarchic period are relatively uncommon finds in Britain and elsewhere, due mainly to the brevity of their periods of issue followed by successive reductions in the weight of the coinage. The book also republishes the 1944 Fyfield hoard within the context of these more recent finds and contains preliminary reports on two very large hoards of coins of the same period that have been found in recent years in France (Juillac) and Spain (Tomares).The Tetrarchic system of rule (AD 293−c. 313) was initiated by the Roman Emperor Diocletian to stabilise the Roman Empire, with the rule of the western and eastern Empire being split between two senior emperors and their two junior colleagues. The transition from the third to fourth century AD is a pivotal phase in the history of Roman Britain, with Britain coming once again under the control of the Empire following periods of turbulence and usurper rule between AD 260−296. Under the Tetrarchy, Britain was subjected to the extensive monetary reforms undertaken by Diocletian which saw the introduction of the denomination now referred to as the nummus. The period is of particular interest to numismatists as during this time Roman coinage was minted in Britain at the mint of London. The volume therefore covers not just the hoards themselves, but also considers the wider significance of these hoards for Britain and the early fourth century monetary economy, particularly in the western empire.

[leetoone]

I think they have problems with their servers at the moment. So you may have to try a couple of times if you wish to download the free version.

[helvetica]

The entire British Museum and British Library systems / websites / databases on their servers were hacked in October last year, by cybergangsters using ransomware, and they demanded £30,000 or thereabouts to free it. The BM refused to pay. For that reason many of the BM's services are limited or non-existent. (including Ethos = theses online) They hope to have everything fixed by the end of 2025 or early 2026.

(Same gangsters got into my NAS a couple of years ago, encrypted all the files (including all my wildwinds files) and demanded about $2,500 to free them up again.
Fortunately I am paranoic about my files, so I don't just have the files on the wildwinds server, but also a backup - and a backup of the backup - and a backup of the backup of the backup on my external HDs)

[Altamura]

... Fortunately I am paranoic about my files, so I don't just have the files on the wildwinds server, but also a backup ...

That's not paranoic but just reasonable  .

Regards

Altamura

[leetoone]

Yes, but this download is up there and now downloadable :-)