Coin hoards of the Roman Republic

Kris Lockyear has been collecting and analysing data regarding Roman Republican coin hoards since 1989. The database now consists of over 100,000 well identified coins.

This database has been extensively (but not exhaustively) analysed and has resulted in a number of papers and a book. In particular, Kris’ examination of Michael Crawford’s controversial die estimates has become a key paper in the debate. Fresh data is added to the database on a regular basis, and analyses on various aspects of the hoards are still being undertaken.

The American Numismatic Society has created a web-based implementation of the database  - CHRR Online, available here»

Related outputs

Selected publications

• Lockyear, Kris (forthcoming 2025) ‘Til death do us part?  A biographical approach to the study of coin hoards.” Submitted to Revue Belge de Numismatique.
• Lockyear, K., (forthcoming 2025). ‘The Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic [Online] database: reflections and development after nine years’, in Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress in Warsaw (Belgium).
• Sharpless, A., Yarrow, L.M. and Lockyear, K. (2025). ‘Economic Fears and Realities in the 80s BC’. Proceedings of the RACOM conference, Rome, 2023. K. Butcher (ed.).
• Lockyear, K. (2022), Simulation, seriation and the dating of Roman Republican coins. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology 5(1): 1–18.
• Lockyear, K. (2018). Mind the Gap! Roman Republican Coin Hoards from Italy and Iberia at the end of the second century BC. The Numismatic Chronicle 178: 123–64.
• Lockyear, K. (2016). The Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic database: the history, the data and the potential. American Journal of Numismatics, 28 157-182.
• Gruber, E., Lockyear, K. (2015). From dBase III+ to the semantic web: twenty-five years of the Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic database. In Traviglia, A. (Ed.), Across Time and Space: Papers from the 41st Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Perth, 25—28th March 2013, (pp. 336-346). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.