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2023

Wood, Jonathan R., Ponting , Matthew and Butcher, Kevin (2023) Mints not mines : a macroscale investigation of Roman silver coinage. Internet Archaeology (61). doi:10.11141/ia.61.10 ISSN 1363-5387.

Wood, Jonathan R., Ponting, Matthew and Butcher, Kevin (2023) Crisis? What crisis? Recycling of silver for Roman Republican coinage. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 15 (10). 147. doi:10.1007/s12520-023-01854-w ISSN 1866-9565.

2022

Butcher, Kevin (2022) Bigger stuff beyond Palmyra : the coinage of the Hatrans and Assyrians. In: Raja, R., (ed.) The Small Stuff of the Palmyrenes. Coins and Tesserae from Palmyra, Turnhout. Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history, 5 . Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 163-174. ISBN 9782503597607

2021

Butcher, Kevin (2021) Eastern imitations and the beginning of the Antiochene SC coinage. In: Ciolek, R. and Chowaniec, R., (eds.) Aleksanderia - Studies on Items, Ideas and History. Dedicated to Professor Aleksander Bursche on the Occasion of his 65th birthday. Harrassowitz-verlag, pp. 45-50. ISBN 9783447115544

2020

Butcher, Kevin, ed. (2020) Debasement : manipulation of coin standards in pre-modern monetary systems. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781789253986

Butcher, Kevin, ed. (2020) Debasement. Manipulation of coin standards in pre-modern monetary systems. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781789253986

Butcher, Kevin (2020) Small change at the edge of empire : the coin finds from Kifrin. Mesopotamia : rivista di archeologia, epigrafia e storia orientale antica , 55 . pp. 51-70. ISSN 0076-6615.

Butcher, Kevin (2020) An allegory of glass making or depiction of a water source? Notes on a coin type of Tyre. In: Stroobants, F. and Lauwers, C., (eds.) Detur dignissimo. Studies in Honour of Johan van Heesch. Travaux (Cercle d'études numismatiques), (21). Brussels: European Centre for Numismatic Studies, pp. 349-355. ISBN 9782930948089

2019

Butcher, K. (2019) Le monnayage des Assyriens. Bulletin de la Société Française de Numismatique, 73 (10). pp. 456-461. ISSN 0037-9344.

Butcher, Kevin and Woytek, B. (2019) The grand scheme of things : modelling coin production and coin distribution in the Roman Empire in the First and Second Centuries AD. In: Woytek, B., (ed.) Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies. The Flow of Money, Goods and Services. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse (506). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 9783700181088

Hampshire, Bethany, Butcher, Kevin, Ishida, Katsu, Green, George, Paul, Don McK. and Hillier, Adrian (2019) Using negative muons as a probe for depth profiling silver Roman coinage. Heritage, 2 (1). pp. 400-407. doi:10.3390/heritage2010028 ISSN 2050-7445.

Butcher, Kevin (2019) Hoards, single finds and monetary circulation. In: Frey-Kupper, Suzanne and Standard, C. and Wolfe-Jacot, N., (eds.) Contexts and the Contextualization of Coin Finds. Proceedings of the Sixth International Colloquium of the Swiss Group for the Study of Coin Finds, (Geneva, March 5th-7th 2010), Studies in Numismatics and Monetary History. Etudes de numismatique et d'histoire monétaire, 8 . Lausanne: Éditions du Zèbre, pp. 47-58. ISBN 9782940557035

Butcher, Kevin (2019) CRS Antioch 60 and the coinage of Parthian Mesopotamia. In: Schinzel, Christian and Zäch, Benedikt, (eds.) Benedictum sit... Festschrift für Benedikt Zäch zum 60. Geburtstag. Swiss Numismatic Society, 5 . Winterthur: Swiss Numismatic Studies, pp. 45-48. ISBN 9783907047095

Butcher, Kevin (2019) "This extravagant trade of false money" : commercial speculation and coin distribution. In: Krmnicek, S. and Chameroy, J., (eds.) Money matters : coin finds and ancient coin use. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH. ISBN 9783774941755

Butcher, Kevin (2019) “This extravagant trade of false money” : commercial speculation and coin distribution. In: Krmnicek, Stefan and Chameroy, Jérémie, (eds.) Money matters : coin finds and ancient coin use. Bonn : Dr. Rudolf Habelt, pp. 45-51. ISBN 9783774941755

2018

Butcher, Kevin (2018) Monetary policy in the Roman Empire. In: van der Spek, R. J. and van Leeuwen, B., (eds.) Money, Currency and Crisis. In Search of Trust, 2000 BC to AD 2000, London, 2018: 165-185. Routledge Explorations in Economic History . Routledge. ISBN 9781138628359

2017

Butcher, Kevin and Heidemann, Stefan (2017) Regional history and the coin finds from Assur from the Achaemenids to the nineteenth century. Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, 148 . Wiesbaden Harrassowitz. ISBN 9783447107617

Butcher, Kevin (2017) Arbitrary standards? On the so-called four-and-a-half assaria coins from Tomis, and value marks on coins of Moesia and Thrace. In: Boteva, D., (ed.) Ex Nummis Lux: Studies in Ancient Numismatics in Honour of Dimitar Draganov. Sofia: Bobokov Bros. Foundation, pp. 273-290. ISBN 9789549460070

Butcher, Kevin (2017) Architectural process and the emergent temple. In: Raja, R., (ed.) Contextualizing the Sacred in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East : Religious Identities in Local, Regional, and Imperial Settings. Contextualizing the sacred (8). Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 73-81. ISBN 9782503569635

Butcher, Kevin (2017) Some Flavian coins of Laodicea ad mare in Syria. In: Bricault, Laurent, (ed.) Rome et les provinces monnayage et histoire : Mélanges offerts à Michel Amandry. Bordeaux : Ausonius Éditions, pp. 189-193. ISBN 9782356131973

2016

Butcher, K. (2016) Baetylmania : coinage and communal memory in the Roman East. Berytus Archaeological Studies, 56 . pp. 235-255. ISSN 0067-6195.

Butcher, Kevin (2016) Coin finds and the monetary economy : the good, the bad, and the irrelevant. In: Duyrat, Frédérique and Grandjean, Catherine, (eds.) Les monnaies de fouille du mond Grec (VIe - Ier s. a.C.). Apports, approaches et méthodes. Scripta antiqua (93). Bordeaux: Ausonius Editions ; Ecole française d'Athènes,, pp. 225-237. ISBN 9782356131706

2015

Butcher, Kevin and Ponting , Matthew (2015) The metallurgy of Roman silver coinage : from the reform of Nero to the reform of Trajan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107027121

Butcher, Kevin (2015) Coins from Sippar. Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 47 . pp. 182-189. ISSN 0030-5340.

Butcher, Kevin (2015) Debasement and the decline of Rome. In: Bland, Roger and Calomino, Dario, (eds.) Studies in ancient coinage in honor of Andrew Burnett. London: SPINK, pp. 181-205. ISBN 9781907427572

Woytek, B. E. and Butcher, Kevin (2015) The camel drachms of Trajan in context : old problems and a new overstrike. Numismatic Chronicle, 175 . pp. 117-136. ISSN 0078-2696.

Butcher, Kevin and Ponting, Matthew (2015) The reforms of Trajan and the end of the Pre-Neronian denarius. Annali dell'Istituto Italiano di Numismatica, 61 . pp. 21-43. ISSN 0578-9923 .

2014

Butcher, Kevin (2014) Lycian drachms and the monetary system of the Roman Empire. In: Dörtlük, K. and Tekin, O. and Boyraz Seyhan, R., (eds.) First International Congress of the Anatolian Monetary History and Numismatics [Proceedings]. AKMED ; Koç University Suna & İnan Kıraç Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations, pp. 111-116. ISBN 9786054018215

2013

Butcher, Kevin (2013) Coins and hoards. In: Excavations at Zeugma Conducted by Oxford Archaeology. Los Altos, California: The Packard Humanities Institute, pp. 1-92. ISBN 9781938325298

Butcher, Kevin (2013) Continuity and change in Lebanese temples. In: Gardner, Andrew and Herring, Edward and Lomas, Kathryn, (eds.) Creating Ethnicities and Identities in the Roman World. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 120 . London: Institute of Classical Studies, pp. 195-211. ISBN 9781905670468

2012

Butcher, Kevin (2012) Syria in the Roman Period, 64 B.C. - A.D. 260. In: Metcalf, W. E., (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage. Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History . Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 468-484. ISBN 9780195305746

Butcher, Kevin (2012) Numerical letters on Syrian coins : officina or sequence marks? Revue Belge de Numismatique et de Sigillographie, Vol.158 . pp. 123-144. ISSN 0774-5885.

Butcher, Kevin and Ponting, Matthew (2012) The beginning of the end? The denarius in the second century. Numismatic Chronicle, Vol.172 . pp. 63-83. ISSN 0078-2696.

Butcher, Kevin (2012) The silver coinage of Roman Arabia. In: Jacobson, D. M. and Kokkinos, N., (eds.) Judaea and Rome in Coins 65 BCE - 135 CE. London: Spink, pp. 203-213.

2011

Butcher, Kevin (2011) Contesting sacred space in Lebanese temples. In: Gruen, Erich S., (ed.) Cultural identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Issues & debates . Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, pp. 452-463. ISBN 9780892369690

Butcher, Kevin (2011) Miscellaneous Provincials. Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. 171 . pp. 75-79. ISSN 0078-2696.

Butcher, Kevin and Ponting, Matthew (2011) The denarius in the first century. In: Holmes, N. , (ed.) Proceedings of the XIV International Numismatic Congress. Glasgow: The International Numismatic Council, pp. 557-568. ISBN 9781907427176

2010

Butcher, Kevin (2010) Review of Roman Berytus : Beirut in late antiquity, by Jones Hall, L. Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol.73 (No.2-3). pp. 205-207. ISSN 1094-2076

Butcher, Kevin (2010) Review of Gerasa and the Decapolis. A 'virtual island' in northwest Jordan, by Kennedy, D. Classical Review, Vol.60 (No.1). pp. 219-220. ISSN 0009-840X

Butcher, Kevin (2010) Ambrosia in Damascus? Numismatic Chronicle, Vol.170 . pp. 85-91. ISSN 0078-2696.

Butcher, Kevin (2010) Review of Bosra, aux portes de l’Arabie, by Dentzer-Feydy, J., Vallerin, M., Fournet, T., Mukdad, R. and Mukdad, A. JRA - The Supplementary Series, Vol.23 . pp. 780-781. ISSN 1063-4304

Butcher, Kevin (2010) Review of The Coinage of Deultum, by Draganov, D. ; Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Bulgaria, Ruse, vol. 1: Deultum, by Draganov, D. Schweizer Münzblätter (No.240). pp. 93-95.

2009

Butcher, Kevin (2009) Acolytes and Aspergilla : on five coin types of Heliopolis. Topoi Orient Occident, Vol.16 (No.1). pp. 169-187. ISSN 1161-9473.

Butcher, Kevin (2009) Euphrates frontier and the civic era of Zeugma. In: Tekin, Oğuz and Erol, Aliye, (eds.) Ancient history, numismatics, and epigraphy in the Mediterranean world : studies in memory of Clemens E. Bosch and Sabahat Atlan, and in honour of Nezahat Baydur. Taksim, İstanbul: Ege publications, pp. 81-83. ISBN 9789758072323

Butcher, Kevin, Ponting , Matthew and Muona, J. (2009) The denarii of Otho : a stylistic and compositional study. Rivista Italiana di Numismatica (No.110). pp. 297-316. ISSN 1126-8700.

Butcher, Kevin and Ponting, Matthew (2009) The silver coinage of Roman Syria under the Julio-Claudian emperors. Levant, Vol.41 (No.1). pp. 59-78. doi:10.1179/175638009X427594 ISSN 00758914.

2008

Butcher, Kevin (2008) Review of The Middle East under Rome, by Sartre, M. International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Vol.15 (No.2). pp. 309-315. ISSN 1073-0508

Butcher, Kevin, Reece, Richard, Brown, H. and Metcalf, Michael D. (2008) Jerusalem : the coins. In: Prag, Kay, (ed.) Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem, 1961-1967. Vol. 5 , Discoveries in Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem. Levant supplementary series (No.7). London ; Oxford : Council for British Research in the Levant ; Oxbow Books, pp. 411-431. ISBN 9781842173046

Butcher, Kevin (2008) Phasing of coin finds : the example of ancient Beirut. In: Asolati, Michele and Gorini, Giovanni, (eds.) I ritrovamenti monetali e i processi inflativi nel mondo antico e medievale : atti del IV congresso internazionale di numismatica e di storia monetaria, Padova, 12-13 ottobre 2007. Numismatica patavina (No.9). Padova : Esedra editrice, pp. 63-67. ISBN 9788860580870

2007

Butcher, Kevin (2007) Two Syrian deities. In: Syria. Damas: Presses de l'Ifpo, pp. 281-290. ISBN 9782351590669

2005

Butcher, Kevin (2005) Information, legitimation, or self-legitimation? Popular and elite designs on the coin types of Syria. In: Howgego, Christopher and Heuchert, Volker and Burnett, Andrew (Andrew M.), (eds.) Coinage and identity in the Roman Provinces. Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 143-156. ISBN 9780199265268

Butcher, Kevin and Ponting, Matthew (2005) The Roman denarius under the Julio-Claudian Emperors : mints, metallurgy and technology. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Vol.24 (No.2). pp. 163-197. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0092.2005.00231.x ISSN 0262-5253.

2004

Butcher, Kevin (2004) Coinage in Roman Syria : Northern Syria, 64 BC – AD 253. Special publication (Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain)), Vol.34 . London: Royal Numismatic Society. ISBN 9780901405586

2003

Butcher, Kevin (2003) Numismatics (minting and monetary systems/coinage) in the Levant. In: Richard, Suzanne, 1947-, (ed.) Near Eastern archaeology : a reader. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, pp. 210-217. ISBN 1575060833

Butcher, Kevin (2003) Roman Syria and the Near East. London: British Museum. ISBN 9780892367153

Butcher, Kevin, Perring, Dominic, Reynolds, Paul and Walton Rogers, Penelope (2003) Small change in ancient Beirut : the coin finds from BEY 006 and 045 ; Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods. Berytus : Archaeological studies, Vols.45-46 . Beirut : Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut.

2002

Butcher, Kevin (2002) Circulation of bronze coinage in the Orontes Valley in the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods. In: Augé, Christian and Duyrat, Frédérique, (eds.) Les monnayages syriens : quel apport pour l'histoire du Proche-Orient hellénistique et romain? : actes de la table ronde Damas, 10-12 novembre 1999. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique (162). Beyrouth: Institut Francais d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient, pp. 145-152. ISBN 9782912738172

1988

Butcher, Kevin (1988) Roman provincial coins : an introduction to the 'Greek Imperials'. London: Seaby. ISBN 1852640103