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NEW BOOK: THE LONDON MINT, 2ND ED.Hugh Cloke writes: "Spink has just posted the publication notice for the new edition of Lee Toone's and my The London Mint of Constantius and Constantine. This is the second of the three books to be celebrated at the York conference in July. The first book is Eleanor Ghey's study of Tetrarchic hoards. The third book is Sam Moorehead's upcoming volume of Roman Imperial Coinage on Carausius. That book will not be available by the July conference date."
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This new edition of LMCC remains the comprehensive catalogue and survey of the coinage of the London mint from AD 296, when Constantius I recaptured Britain from the usurper, Allectus, to its closure in AD 325 when his son and successor, Constantine I, began to shift his power base to the East. LMCC II continues the authors' earlier expansion and revision of the London portions of Volumes VI and VII of The Roman Imperial Coinage by incorporating new types discovered since 2015 and expanding the census tables based on the population totals from several major new hoards. As Sam Moorhead notes in his foreword to this second edition, this catalogue is now recognised as the standard reference work on the London mint coins of this period and is used by both the British Museum and the Portable Antiquities Scheme when cataloguing these coins. 
The four reference hoards listed in LMCC I are Domqueur, Bridgend, and Sully II A and B 
The six reference hoards in LMCC II are Domqueur, Bridgend, Fyfield, Rauceby, Wold Newton, and Juillac. Complete catalogues of Fyfield, Rauceby, and Wold Newton are published in Eleanor Ghey's new BM book. The massive Juillac hoard of 23,000+ coins is not yet published, but Lee and I catalogued the 2,100+ London coins in the hoard and the coin totals listed in our census tables are based on our cataloguing notes. The coins from Sully II A and B are still listed in our new book in the notes for each coin type at the bottom of each page. So the reader can actually see coin totals from eight hoards. Congratulations! See the links below for the earlier articles. Here's Sam Moorhead's Foreword to the book. Sam, now retired, was the National Finds Advisor for Iron Age and Roman Coins in the Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum.] -Editor It is a great privilege to write this short piece in honour of the Herculean work of Hubert Cloke and Lee Toone. Since its publication in 2015, The London Mint of Constantius and Constantine is a book that frequently comes off my shelf both at home and at the British Museum. It is the authority we use for the identification of London mint coins on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database (finds.org.uk) and it is frequently used to assist with the cataloguing of the numerous hoards which are worked on by Dr. Eleanor Ghey and other colleagues in the Dept of Coins and Medals. The London Mint is also an invaluable volume for collectors and those working in the trade…. One has to admire Cloke's and Toone's tenacity in seeking out new coins so as to upgrade their existing work. It would be very easy for them to have rested on their laurels and leave future additions to other scholars. In this respect, the authors are doing the numismatic world a double service. This work will stand the test of time and will be added to by future generations with a minimum of effort – what a legacy!
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