VOLKER HEUCHERT

Volker Heuchert's main research interest is the Roman Provincial coinage of the Antonine Period – the time from the accession of Antoninus Pius to the death of Commodus (AD 138–192). During that period, around 380 cities (and other institutions) issued coins, representing an enormously rich resource for the study of the cultural, religious, political, economic and administrative history of the Roman Empire at its peak. His work on this vast topic, which began in 1993 with his doctorate at the University of Oxford, is contributing to a standard typology of the provincial coinage as a whole.

Since 2006, Volker's research has been available through the innovative RPC Online website (https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/) and will also be published as volumes of the Roman Provincial Coinage (RPC) series. How the material can be used has been demonstrated through a book entitled Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces, which he co-edited. 

Currently, Volker is the Primary Investigator (PI) of the RPC and EpiDoc project, which was set up by Jerome Mairat and is funded by the John Fell Fund.

Together with Stanley Ireland and Philip Kinns, Volker Heuchert published the Greek coins of Ionia in the Ashmolean Museum as a Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum volume. As Curator of Greek and Roman provincial coins he has been involved in the digitising of the museum’s collection to make coin images and descriptions freely available via the Heberden Coin Room’s WebApp (https://hcr.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/).

Volker Heuchert teaches Greek coinage to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Oxford:
 
Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford

• Final Honour School Option Paper for Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History (CAAH): Option 'Greek and Roman Coins'.
• Master of Studies (Mst) or Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Greek History: Option 'Greek Numismatics', School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
• Master of Studies (Mst) or Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Classical Archaeology: Option 'Greek Coinage'

As Research Lecturer in Greek Coinage, Volker gives 16 lectures on the topic during Michaelmas and Hilary term. The primary target for the lectures are undergraduate and graduate students from the courses listed above but they are open to all interested students. The lectures give an introduction to Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greek coins and to the ways we study them. They also provide an opportunity to handle actual coins from the collection of the Ashmolean Museum.

In addition to these activities, Volker supports the teaching of other colleagues at Oxford University through coin handling sessions.

Volker is happy to supervise doctoral (DPhil) research on Greek and Roman Provincial Coinage.

Current research students

Membership of a professional organisation

• 2012 up to now, Committee Member, British Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Committee

Archaeological Science; Archaeology; Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant; Archival, Repository and Related Studies; Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing; Classical Greek and Roman History; Database Management; Economic History; European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman); History and Archaeology; Image Processing; Museum Studies