AVREVS. Le Pouvoir de l'or / The Power of Gold
Arnaud Suspène, Maryse Blet-Lemarquand, Frédérique Duyrat, Sylvia Nieto-Pelletier (ed.)Collection Scripta antiqua (171)
Bordeaux, 2023 - 556 p. 30 €
"AVREVS. The Power of Gold presents the appearance of the first single gold coinage in Western Europe: the Roman gold coinage, the culmination of a centuries-old tradition. Thanks to the physico-chemical analysis of nearly 1000 gold coins and jewellery coins from heritage collections, put at the service of an interdisciplinary approach, AVREVS describes the transfer of gold stocks and the issues related to gold in the West (4th century B.C. - 69 p.C.). The AVREVS volume takes up the story of the origins of gold coinage in Western Europe with a comprehensive approach that has been lacking until now.
