The ways in which this convergence took place are manifold, spanning from imitations of Roman Republican denarii from Romania and Gaul to the lead tokens of Spain, from Aesillas’ tetradrachms in Macedonia to the Romano-Sicilian coins in Sicily, local coinages and pseudo-mints in Central and Southern Italy. While exhibiting an extraordinary variety in appearance and weight, the coins of the collection tell the tale of a partial convergence toward the Roman monetary system before the inception of the so-called Roman Provincial coinage in the second half of the first century BCE. Most of the specimens are of great historical and numismatic value, as they illustrate the gradual transition from distinct to compatible monetary systems in the Mediterranean basin. Witschonke Collection at the ANS, mainly dating from the second and the first century BCE, provide the prologue to the study of Roman Provincial coinage. Roman Provincial Coinage - RPC1, separately reviewed in the Other Key References section, is essential. From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius, 2 vols, 1992.
ROMAN PROVINCIAL COINAGE SERIES
The Roman Provincial Coinage series offers an incomparable tool for the study of the coinages issued in the Roman provinces and client kingdoms from the age of the Civil Wars onward, but does not include the local production in those regions in the preceding decades. Burnett, Amandry, Ripolls, Roman Provincial Coinage I. Buy Roman Provincial Coinage III by Michel Amandry, Andrew Burnett from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK. To understand those interactions, it is thus important to research the manifold ways in which local coinages converged, at least partly, to create compatible monetary systems across the Roman Empire. Although payment in kind played an important role in the Roman world, coinage was still paramount in transactions between the provinces and Rome. Instead we should conceive of it as a group of substantially separate regional economies that were yet strongly interconnected through tribute payments and the movements of armies and goods.
Indeed, it is now generally recognized that we should not talk of “the Roman economy” as a single phenomenon. Yet this was typical of the Romans’ pragmatic attitude to imperialism, and their tendency to retain any existing forms of effective organization in newly conquered territories. It may come as a surprise to learn that as the Romans came to dominate the Mediterranean world, they ruled most of it without imposing their own coinage. The papers will offer a numismatic and historical overview of each region represented by the coins in the R. Program in History at the Graduate Center, CUNY, will feature contributions by the foremost scholars in the field. This three-day conference, co-sponsored by the ANS and the Ph.D. Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to.
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