This article examines the newly published data on coin hoards from Pompeii, focusing on coins and other objects found on victims, and hoards from so-called savings boxes. Most of the work on savings or capital in the Roman world has focused on the size and composition of elite fortunes and the nature and extent of credit and monetization writ large. The article uses the Pompeii coin data set to examine the extent and nature of liquid savings held by a broader section of the population, including a substantial portion of non-elites. In doing so, it also makes some suggestions about the socioeconomic identity of those who failed to escape the town during the eruption.

本文研究了新发布的关于庞贝城硬币囤积的数据，重点关注在受害者身上发现的硬币和其他物品，以及所谓的储蓄箱中的囤积物。罗马世界关于储蓄或资本的大部分研究都集中在精英财富的规模和构成以及信贷和货币化的性质和程度上。这篇文章使用庞贝硬币数据集来检查更广泛的人群（包括很大一部分非精英）持有的流动储蓄的程度和性质。在这样做的过程中，它还对那些在喷发期间未能逃离城镇的人的社会经济身份提出了一些建议。