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The Monetization of Temperate Europe*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2013

Christopher Howgego
Christopher Howgego*
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Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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Abstract

By considering monetization across the Iron Age and Roman periods and across the whole of Temperate Europe some major developments become apparent. The spread of coinage in the Iron Age bears some relationship to the eventual extent of the Roman Empire. Coins stand in the archaeological record for systems of doing things, for ways people relate to each other and to things, and for ways of conceptualizing the world. They provide a useful way to approach the meeting of the worlds of the Iron Age and of Rome. Material forms of being Roman became increasingly important as a dimension of Roman identity. The commercialization implicit in Rome's ‘Cultural Revolution’ was underpinned by the extension of Roman-style monetization. In this light the monetization of Temperate Europe emerges as a process of considerable importance.

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Roman EmpireRoman Cultural RevolutionRoman coinsIron Age coinscommercializationmonetizationmoneyprimitive valuablesregimes of valueritual deposition
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 103 , November 2013 , pp. 16 - 45
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The ideas in this paper were tried out at the conference on ‘Money and the Evolution of Culture in the Ancient World’ at the Victoria University of Wellington in July 2011, and in a lecture at the Universitatea “Babeş-Bolyai” Cluj-Napoca in October of that year. I am particularly grateful to Gelu Florea and Cristian Găzdac for introducing me to the archaeology of the Dacian citadels on the ground. I found inspiring the general approach of Chris Gosden in his Archaeology and Colonialism and in his O'Donnell lectures in 2011. It is a pleasure to acknowledge generous help with various aspects of the paper from Roger Bland, John Creighton, Katie Eagleton, Colin Haselgrove, Fleur Kemmers, Ian Leins, Kris Lockyear, Sam Moorhead, John Naylor, John Penney, Adi Popescu, Paul Russell, Eberhard Sauer, Roger Tomlin, Hans-Markus von Kaenel, Philippa Walton, David Wigg, and especially Greg Woolf. I am also profoundly grateful to the anonymous readers for the Journal, whose insights caused me to rethink and recast. The preparation of Figs 1–2 was generously supported by the Lorne Thyssen Research Fund for Ancient World Topics at Wolfson College, Oxford.

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69 Nash, op. cit. (n. 23), 43; 45 on passages in Polybius and Caesar.

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166 Wigg, op. cit. (n. 160), 281–8; Kemmers, op. cit. (n. 98), 253–4.

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168 On the interdependence between the state and the ‘private economy’ of their leaders and élites as a background for the development and circulation of money see von Reden, op. cit. (n. 16), 14; cf. Creighton, J., Britannia: The Creation of a Roman Province (2006), 94CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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171 Aarts, op. cit. (n. 20), 20; Vercingetorix: Caes., B.G. 7.2.3; Florus and Sacrovir: Tac., Ann. 3.42; Batavian Revolt: Tac., Hist. 4.15; Boudicca: Tac., Ann. 14. 31–3.

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173 Mithridates: Val. Max. 9.2 ext. 3.

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175 Text not certain.

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178 Claudius: Dio 62.2.1.

179 Tac., Ann., 3.40; Woolf, op. cit. (n. 1), 44 n. 78 (debt and unrest).

180 Dyson, op. cit. (n. 170), 171; Mattingly, op. cit. (n. 6, 2011), 137.

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183 As Aarts, op. cit. (n. 20), 26.

184 J. Williams, ‘Coinage and identity in pre-conquest Britain: 50 B.C.–A.D. 50’, in Howgego, Heuchert and Burnett, op. cit. (n. 19), 69–78, at 77–8. Roman coins were incorporated into ritual deposition at a transitional Iron Age/Roman site in East Leicestershire: Leins, op. cit. (n. 61).

185 Haselgrove, op. cit. (n. 72, 1993), 54; idem in Haselgrove and Wigg-Wolf, op. cit. (n. 13), 417 (Britain); idem in de Jersey, op. cit. (n. 32), 103 (Belgic Gaul); 106–8 (Britain). For two hoards of Roman hoards from eastern England found close to a spring and a prehistoric long barrow: Haselgrove in de Jersey, op. cit. (n. 32), 106. Wigg-Wolf in Metzler and Wigg-Wolf, op. cit. (n. 28), 298–9 (deposition of coin in sanctuaries began in the late third century b.c.); 311 (at the Martberg deposition of coin began before the Roman invasion); Aarts, op. cit. (n. 20), 26 (continuity of deposition in the Meuse-Demer-Scheldt area). Roymans and Aarts in Haselgrove and Wigg-Wolf, op. cit. (n. 13), 242–56 (deposition of coin at the sanctuary at Empel from c. 50 b.c. to a.d. 40, possibly representing votive gifts of soldiers in connection with ritual initiations).

186 Haselgrove in Haselgrove and Wigg-Wolf, op. cit. (n. 13), 417. There is evidence that the ritual site at Hallaton continued into the Hadrianic period: Leins and Haselgrove in Score, op. cit. (n. 61), 43–5; 169.

187 Aarts, op. cit. (n. 20), 24–7 traces the shift towards the deposition of bronze at different times in different places and has an important discussion of its significance; Haselgrove in Haselgrove and Wigg-Wolf, op. cit. (n. 13), 415–16 (Harlow); Roymans and Aarts in Haselgrove and Wigg-Wolf, op. cit. (n. 13), 350–1 (sanctuary at Empel).

188 Along the lines suggested by Bradley, op. cit. (n. 53), xxx.

189 At the Martberg the latest defaced coin is Hadrianic, although it is rare on coins after Claudius: Wigg in Haselgrove and Wigg-Wolf, op. cit. (n. 13); Wigg-Wolf in Metzler and Wigg-Wolf, op. cit. (n. 28). At Bourbonne-les-Bains in east Central Gaul (now Germania Superior) ritual mutilation continued throughout the first two centuries a.d.: Sauer, op. cit. (n. 102, 2005), 79–86 (the latest mutilated coin is of Caracalla under Septimius Severus). At Piercebridge the latest mutilated coins are Severan: Walton, op. cit. (n. 36), 164.

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193 Kemmers, op. cit. (n. 98), 148.

194 cf. Aarts, op. cit. (n. 20), 11–12.

195 cf. above, nn. 36 (north–south divide for small-change in Britain) and 157 (areas of non-coin use in Wales).

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