Golden messages: exploring the Roman monetary policy and gold supply of Germania Inferior from 49 BC - AD 423.

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Archaeology (MA/MSc)

Honigh, Benjamin Daniël (2015)

Golden messages: exploring the Roman monetary policy and gold supply of Germania Inferior from 49 BC - AD 423.

Master thesis | Archaeology (MA/MSc)

This thesis aims to chronologically reconstruct the official gold supply of a small province at the frontier of the Roman empire: Germania Inferior. For this purpose a dataset of over 1,250 Roman gold coins were analyzed from the Southern Netherlands, Northeastern Belgium and the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. The result is a detailed overview of the amount of gold that was available thoughout the Roman period.