Jehan Hillen EFCN 2025

At the annual European Coin Find Network (EFCN) conference, Jehan Hillen presented a research project conducted together with a colleague from the doctoral college, Clemens Steinwender. In his talk, Jehan analysed the coin finds of the imperial borderlands of the Caucasus. Using Princeton’s Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy (FLAME) circulation application, a series of 102 hoard finds of gold, silver and bronze coins were identified that combined comprise over 4800 coins found in this region, dated between 325-750 AD. The talk reflected on the coin circulation in the Caucasus by analysing various hoards and coin finds in this region, focusing on what coins were circulating, in which period(s), and how these circulation patterns could be connected to the functioning of the Caucasus as an imperial borderland.