The Beau Street Hoard is one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries ever to be made in Bath: the Roman town of Aquae Sulis. The discovery captured the public imagination and it became the focus for a major scientific investigation and a significant learning and public engagement programme. Carefully excavated by professional archaeologists the hoard was recovered intact and removed to the British Museum for more detailed examination and study. It was found to have been deposited in a cist in at least eight bags. Micro-investigation of the hoard in a conservation laboratory and further scientific analysis revealed more fascinating details and information reported on here. The Beau Street, Bath Hoard provides a thorough and complete publication and analysis of the hoard, which is one of the largest yet found in a Roman town in Britain. The high quality of the recovery and investigation process means that it makes a significant contribution to both archaeological and numismatic studies.

As the name indicates, KOINON is a journal that encourages contributions to the study of classical numismatics from a wide variety of perspectives. The journal will include papers concerning iconography, die studies, provenance research, forgery analysis, translations of excerpts from antiquarian works, specialized bibliographies, corpora of rare varieties and types, ethical questions on laws and collecting, book reviews, and more. The editorial advisory board is made up of members from all over the world, with a broad range of expertise covering virtually all the major categories of classical numismatics from archaic Greek coinage to late Medieval coinage. Table of contents for the inaugural issue: Why a New Journal in Classical Numismatics? An Editorial by Nicholas J. Molinari; GREEK NUMISMATICS; Sophocles' Trachiniae and the Apotheosis of Herakles: The Importance of Acheloios and Some Numismatic Confirmations - by Nicholas J. Molinari; Provenance Lost and Found: Alfred Bourguignon - by John Voukelatos; A Philip III Tetradrachm Die Pair Recycled by Seleukos I - by Lloyd W.H. Taylor; Blundered Era Date on Coin of Arados, Civic Year 119 - by Martin Rowe; ROMAN NUMISMATICS; Sotto l'egida di Minerva: Echi monetali delle imprese britanniche da Cesare ai Severi - by Luigi Pedroni; A Doubted Variety of M. Aemilius Scaurus and P. Plautius Hypsaeus Vindicated - by Jordan Montgomery and Richard Schaefer; Redating Nepotian's Usurpation and the Coinage of Magnentius - by Shawn Caza; A previously unrecorded reverse for Constantine I - by Victor Clark; The Dating and the Sequence of the Persid Frataraka Revisited - by Wilhelm Museler; ORIENTAL NUMISMATICS; The Kilwa Coins of Sultan al-Hasan ibn Sulayman in their Historical Context - by N.J.C. Smith; An Introduction to Parthian Silver Fractions, The Little Anomalies of Arsacid Coinage - by Bob Langnas; An interesting denaro tornese of the Barons Revolt of 1459-1464 and some considerations regarding Nicola II di Monforte - by Andrei Bontas; A CATALOG OF NEW VARIETIES