Based on below 4000 essay is required. Also take on board that coins could be used in a more contextual way to address archaeological problems. Also With ephesus coins narrow the focus to allow a very clear argument on a very specific case study. They’ve been excavating at ephesus for more than a century so there may be different structures, deposits, assemblages to talk about
What does the Ephesus coin hoard tell us about numismatics in the archaeological record?
Research Question
Case study: The coins of Ephesus
The following research question will form this essay: Does the archaeology of coins rethink numismatics?
There is evidence of discrepancies in dating coins. For instance, frequent inconsistencies between the manufacture of coins and the date associated with their physical archaeological context.
This paper will explain the numismatic approach that considers the objects’ life biography, cognitive patterns, social relationships, and the various routines of societies that played a central role in the production, use, reuse, and deposition of these coins.
Abstract
In setting out to examine coins in the archaeological discourse, this essay will arghujhb7ue that coins are a critical aspect of material culture, which should be investigated and understood within historical archaeology, their primary, secondary, and tertiary contexts. By integrating case studies into its analysis, the essay will demonstrate how coins incorporate text, existence, and an image to offer much-needed insights into humans’ cultural values, economic matters, the history of state organisations, and their issuers and the agency of objects. Moreover, the paper will reflect on the 19th century, which marks the formative or early archaeology period and the emergence of new archaeological and numismatic concepts and methods. The benefits of understanding coins from archaeological and numismatics perspectives will be discussed, and recommendations regarding the need for an explicit research approach and agenda on the procurement or origin, use and maintenance, and deposition of coins.
Bibliography
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Lockyear, K. 2012. “Dating Coins, Dating with Coins.” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 31 2:
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Schiffer, M.B. 1972, “Archaeological Context and Systemic Context.” American Antiquity 47 2:
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Further references: Metcalf, William E, ed 2012, The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage and also:
Howgego, Christopher et al: Coinage and Identify in the Roman Provinces, 2007, Oxford University Press.
