“PAY THE TROOPS, FORGET THE REST!” PATTERNS OF HOARDING: MILITARY VS. CIVILIAN ENVIRONMENTS IN THE MID–3RD CENTURY AD
“PAY THE TROOPS, FORGET THE REST!” PATTERNS OF HOARDING: MILITARY VS. CIVILIAN ENVIRONMENTS IN THE MID–3RD CENTURY AD

Summary/Abstract: The article talks about whether a big database of Roman coins, like the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire (CHRE) at the University of Oxford, can be used to learn more about the Roman Empire's money policy when they switched from a pretty good silver coin (the denarius) to a worse and more overvalued one (the antoninianus). This online platform, CHRE, lets you sort through much evidence by filters like site class, denomination, and chronological order. This enables you to find both broad and specific patterns in how people responded to the devaluation of coins. The paper specifically focuses on identifying hoarding practices in Roman civilian and military environments during the mid-3rd century AD.

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