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The coins minted by the cities of Hispania between ca. 44 BC and AD 54 are Roman provincial coins. Minted in bronze for local use, they were produced mostly by municipalities or colonies, and were a consequence of the legal transformation initiated by Julius Caesar, and continued by Augustus and Tiberius. Civic coins, as well as those issued in the provinces outside of the Iberian peninsula, played an important role in the economy of Roman provincial cities. Pere Pau Ripollès, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Valencia, will discuss these coins and their use in daily life.
With Passover nearly upon us, I cannot help but trawl the Passover seder for numismatic connections. Luckily said, a connection…
In the second of a three-part series that explores the messages, audiences, and relative frequencies of Nerva’s imperial coinage…
Figure 1. The obverse and reverse of a 1793 large cent are clearly discernable from one another, and follow guidelines…
The Royal Maundy is a historic ceremony with origins in the New Testament, held on the Thursday before Easter…
Figure 1. Catuvellauni gold stater depicting horse, chariot wheel, and astral imagery. (ANS 1944.100.78360)
British Celtic coins are perhaps best-known for…
Excavations in Elaiussa Sebaste, an active mint from at least the beginning of the first century BCE to the…
In the Hellenistic period, all matters that concerned coinage were regulated by laws and decrees, and all decisions that…
Figure 1. ANS 1969.83.35. Didrachm, RRC 22/1 (265-242 BCE). 6.54g. Gift of E.R. Miles. Control marks: Club/ΘΘ.
Another batch of Roman…
Lucia Carbone, ANS Andrew M. Burnett Associate Curator of Roman Numismatics, will discuss her new two-volume publication Local Coinages…
NUMMI DIGITALI is a project that aims to expand the access to the numismatic collection at the Museum “A….
For the fact that the Romans did not export their own coinage into the Greek world does not mean that…
Certain drachms from the Cretan cities of Gortyna, Phalasarna, and Polyrrhenia were overstruck on Kyrenaika coins. These drachm types,…