Roman Egypt and its Coinage: Dr. Irene Soto Marín

Dr. Soto Marín is Assistant Curator of Numismatics at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. Born and raised in Costa Rica, she obtained her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University and her MPhil and PhD from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. She has been working at the site of Amheida in the Dakhleh Oasis of Egypt since 2008. Her research focuses on the economy of Roman and Late Roman Egypt. She has published on ceramics, taxes, coin molds, as well as edited some papyrological texts. She is currently working on her monograph project The Egyptian Emporium: The Economic Integration of a Late Roman Province.