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DOI Artikel:Pelsdonk, Jan: The frontiers in Dutch coin research: Iron Age and Roman Republican coin finds in the Limes-area
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41338#0122
JAN PELSDONK
RECOMMENDATIONS
This text only provides a global impression of the vast amount of materiał
available for research. For NUMIS, it is important to check the termini post quos
given for the hoards, as well as the dates of the individual coins, in order to avoid
using outdated data. Hopefully, scholars will add their research results to NUMIS
to keep the dataset updated. Morę detailed research on the differences in the spread
of Iron Age and Roman Republican coins is recommended.
The find spot of a coin does not have to be the same as the spot where the coin
was deposited. Both by natural - and human - influence (floods, the transportation
of earth during construction work), the original find spot can be lost. As morę
finds are recorded, NUMIS is becoming increasingly trustworthy, but it will never
be totally reliable. Remarkably few coins have been found in the Coastal provinces
of Zealand and North-Holland (the Southwest and western parts of the Netherlands).
Natural circumstances - including the difficulty of building a life and the endless
succession of smaller and bigger floods, the loss of soil, and the formation
of peat in later centuries - play a role. The ąuestion as to how much archaeological
materiał has been washed away shows once morę that NUMIS attained its shape
through multiple human and natural factors. At the same time, the maps show
the importance of registering as many coin finds as possible, even if the ąuality
of the coins is sometimes poor. For as long as we are aware of possible biases,
databases like NUMIS are valuable research instruments, instruments that we can
use to gain new insights and to restate or adjust old statements.
REFERENCES
AARTS, J.G. 2000. Coins or money. Exploiting the monetization and functions of Roman
coinage in Belgie Gaul and Lower Germany 50 BC-AD 450, PhD study, Amsterdam.
BAR, M. 1991. Monnaies grecąues et assimilees trouvees en Belgiąue, Travaux du Cercie
d’Etudes Numismatiąues 11, Brussels.
BAZELMANS, J. and DE JONGE, W. 2006. “Wie waren de Cananefaten?”. In. W. DE
JONGE, J. BAZELMANS and D. DE JAGER (eds.), Forum Hadriani, van Romeinse stad tot
monument, Utrecht: 35-47.
BURINGH, E., LUITEN VAN ZANDEN, J. and BOSKER, M. 2012. “Soldiers and Booze:
The Rise and Decline of a Roman Market Economy in North-Western Europę”, Center for
Global Economic History Working Paper Series 32 [online publication],
CRUYSEDEER, A. 2014. “Een Griekse zilverling of judaspenning”. De Beeldenaar 38 (3):
133-134.
DUNCAN-JONES, R. 1994. Money and government in the Roman Empire, Cambridge.
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511552632.
GROOTHEDDE, M. 2010. “De ‘nieuwe’ IJssel: wat vertellen de geschreven bronnen
en archeologische vondsten?”, Gelre. Bijdragen en Mededelingen 101: 7-26.
HASELGROVE, C. 2005. “A New Approach to Analysing the Circulation of Iron Age
Coinage”, Numismatic Chronicie 165: 129-174.
RECOMMENDATIONS
This text only provides a global impression of the vast amount of materiał
available for research. For NUMIS, it is important to check the termini post quos
given for the hoards, as well as the dates of the individual coins, in order to avoid
using outdated data. Hopefully, scholars will add their research results to NUMIS
to keep the dataset updated. Morę detailed research on the differences in the spread
of Iron Age and Roman Republican coins is recommended.
The find spot of a coin does not have to be the same as the spot where the coin
was deposited. Both by natural - and human - influence (floods, the transportation
of earth during construction work), the original find spot can be lost. As morę
finds are recorded, NUMIS is becoming increasingly trustworthy, but it will never
be totally reliable. Remarkably few coins have been found in the Coastal provinces
of Zealand and North-Holland (the Southwest and western parts of the Netherlands).
Natural circumstances - including the difficulty of building a life and the endless
succession of smaller and bigger floods, the loss of soil, and the formation
of peat in later centuries - play a role. The ąuestion as to how much archaeological
materiał has been washed away shows once morę that NUMIS attained its shape
through multiple human and natural factors. At the same time, the maps show
the importance of registering as many coin finds as possible, even if the ąuality
of the coins is sometimes poor. For as long as we are aware of possible biases,
databases like NUMIS are valuable research instruments, instruments that we can
use to gain new insights and to restate or adjust old statements.
REFERENCES
AARTS, J.G. 2000. Coins or money. Exploiting the monetization and functions of Roman
coinage in Belgie Gaul and Lower Germany 50 BC-AD 450, PhD study, Amsterdam.
BAR, M. 1991. Monnaies grecąues et assimilees trouvees en Belgiąue, Travaux du Cercie
d’Etudes Numismatiąues 11, Brussels.
BAZELMANS, J. and DE JONGE, W. 2006. “Wie waren de Cananefaten?”. In. W. DE
JONGE, J. BAZELMANS and D. DE JAGER (eds.), Forum Hadriani, van Romeinse stad tot
monument, Utrecht: 35-47.
BURINGH, E., LUITEN VAN ZANDEN, J. and BOSKER, M. 2012. “Soldiers and Booze:
The Rise and Decline of a Roman Market Economy in North-Western Europę”, Center for
Global Economic History Working Paper Series 32 [online publication],
CRUYSEDEER, A. 2014. “Een Griekse zilverling of judaspenning”. De Beeldenaar 38 (3):
133-134.
DUNCAN-JONES, R. 1994. Money and government in the Roman Empire, Cambridge.
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511552632.
GROOTHEDDE, M. 2010. “De ‘nieuwe’ IJssel: wat vertellen de geschreven bronnen
en archeologische vondsten?”, Gelre. Bijdragen en Mededelingen 101: 7-26.
HASELGROVE, C. 2005. “A New Approach to Analysing the Circulation of Iron Age
Coinage”, Numismatic Chronicie 165: 129-174.