Roman provincial coins

Journal of Roman Studies

Roman coinage forms an astoundingly rich body of material. That applies to coins struck by the centre as much as so-called provincial coinage. The latter can be roughly categorised as 1) coins struck by cities in the east of the Roman Empire, and for the Julio-Claudian period also in the west (in the western provinces, cities stopped issuing coins around the end of Claudius’ reign); 2) coinages issued in the name of federations of cities (koina) or coins celebrating alliances between cities (so-called homonoia-coins); 3) coins struck by ‘friendly kings’; and 4) so-called ‘provincial issues’ — mainly drachms, didrachms and tetradrachms, but also bronzes — that were mostly struck by important mints such as Alexandria, Antioch and Caesarea (in Cappadocia), probably under the supervision of Roman magistrates, to circulate in specific provinces.1

2009

A review and commentary of the bibliography on Roman Provincial Coinage published between 2002 and 2007

ANS Magazine, 2016

Review: Roman Provincial Coinage. Volume III. Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138). Michel Amandry and Andrew Burnett, in collaboration with Jérôme Mairat and with contributions by W. Metcalf, L. Bricault and M. Blet-Lemarquant. British Museum and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, London, Paris, 2015. Part I: Catalogue. Part II: General Introduction, Indexes, and Plates. Overall, beyond minor concerns, RPC III holds its promises as a masterpiece that no one with an interest in the period will be able to dispense with. Loaded with invaluable information and genuine discoveries that will change some previously accepted facts, combining ancient sources’ erudite knowledge with the use of the most recent relevant works, these volumes manage to combine scientific value with an undeniable sense of enjoyment as texts, tables, charts, pictures and the general layout all contribute to the reader’s own pleasure. Furthermore, what makes these volumes even more remarkable lies with their collaborative aspect. Dual publication of a printed and of an online version secures RPC III’s potential for further growth, as new coin-types will find their way on the website within the structure laid out by the book. One can only thank the authors for the years of work they have invested and salute their production with utmost respect and admiration.

The latest instalment of new material since the publication of the Consolidated Supplement in 2015. Thanks to Jerome Mairat, the RPC online site (http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/) has been updated at the same occasion.

In: F. Haymann, W. Hollstein and M. Jehne (eds.), Neue Forschungen zur Münzprägung der Römischen Republik. Beiträge zum internationalen Kolloquium im Residenzschloss Dresden 19.-21. Juni 2014, Nomismata 8 (Bonn 2016) 347-372, 2016

2015

The Consolidated Supplement I-III brings together all the material published in Roman Provincial Coinage Supplement I (1998), Supplement II (2006) and Supplement III (2014).

Roman Provincial Coinage Supplement 3, 2014