Metallurgy in Numismatics Conference – Liverpool, 19th-20th April 2022

Registration is still open – email hlcevent@liverpool.ac.uk!

Attendance will be a mixture of online and in-person. Zoom details for online attendees will be circulated shortly. The venue for those wishing to attend in-person is: The University of Liverpool, Arts Faculty Library, Abercromby Square, Liverpool.

Conference programme:

Time	Name	Title
Tuesday 19th April
11:30   REGISTRATION
12:00-13:00  LUNCH
13:00-13:30	Paul Craddock	Metals and Coins
13:30-14:00	Maria Guerra	On the two sides of the coins: Coin analyses to understand jewellery.
14:00-14:30	Thomas Faucher and Alexandre Bodet	The Frapper Monnaie project: Understanding die productivity in Greek and Roman world.
14:30-15:00	Peter Northover	Metallurgy and the Mechanisation of Minting
15:00-15:30	Patricia Carrizo	Archaeometallurgical and manufacturing procedures: studies of two copper coins dates 1851 and 1853  (OL)
15:30-16:00	Nicola George	Disguising Debasement: Roman Surface Silvering Technologies in the Third-Century AD.
16:00-16:30	George Green	Electron probe analysis of sectioned gold coins from antiquity: implications for cultural heritage research.
16:30-17:00	Jake Morley-Stone	Late Iron Age Coin Pellet Production in Hertfordshire, Britain.
Wednesday 20th April
10:00-10:30	Naomi Rubinstein	When identity sits on the surface: using pXRF to identify Constantinian copies in Romano-British hoards [AD 330-341]
10:30-11:00	Francis Alberade	New geochemical tools for silver provenance and fluxes
11:00-11:30	Tom Elliot	A critical review of LA-ICP-MS and the analysis of ancient coins
11:30-12:00	Camille Bossavit	Silver coinage production policies of Central Eastern Gaul (IInd-Ist centuries B.C.E.) : an analytical overview. (OL)
12:00-12:30	Leisel Gentelli, Gil Davis, Haim Gitler, Janne-Blichert-Toft and Francis Alberade.	The source of 5th century BCE ‘imitation’ owls in the Southern Levant. (OL)
12:30-13:00	Fleur Kemmers and Sabine Klein	Standardised or laissez-faire?  Bullion characterization and silver fineness of Greek federal coinages (5th-1st centuries BCE)
13:00-14:00  LUNCH
14:00-14:30	Stephen Merkel, Angela Celauro and Jane Kershaw	Silver, sulfur and salt: Experiments in Early Islamic silver extractive metallurgy
14:30-15:00	Tom Birch, Alex Metcalf and Rasmus Andreasen	Silver of the Abbasids: an investigation into the composition and provenance of North African Islamic dirhams.
15:00-15:30	Arnaud Suspene, Maryse Blet- Lemarquand and Jeremy Artru.	Archaeometrical analyses of Roman silver coins of the Augustan Age through LA-ICP-MS for the program MAN.
15:30-16:00	David Wigg, Sabine Klein and Tim Greifelt	The sources of the metal of Roman denarii – A multi-isotope and elemental analysis approach
16:00-16:30	Adrian Hillier	Non-destructively probing the core composition of coinages of the Mediterranean by using muonic X-ray
16:30-17:00	Matthew Ponting and Kevin Butcher	RACOM and Summing-up