Experimental Roman Minting: Casting Silver-Copper Alloys into a Bronze Mould

This paper provides the details of a Roman minting experiment, which used a bronze mould to cast debased silver blanks typical of the third century A.D. The investigation follows the paper ''Experiments reproducing Roman debased alloys" (George, 2020) which studied the manufacturing m...

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Main Author: Nicola George
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EXARC 2021-02-01
Series:EXARC Journal
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Online Access:https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10563