M. Amandry, A. Burnett, I. Carradice, P.P. Ripollès, M. Spoerri Butcher, Roman Provincial Coinage, Supplement 3 (original) (raw)

Weight, Fineness and Diameter Standards for Late Roman Bronze Coins -A Tutorial

2019

Knowledge of the weight standards, fineness standard (i.e. silver content), and official diameter of late Roman bronze coins is an important requisite for studying such coinage. Knowledge of weight standards and official diameters can assist with the identification and classification of coins, and helps to identify changes (mainly reductions) in such standards which in turn are often indicative of broader political or economic issues. Understanding fineness standards is necessary in order to study the actual value of the coinage – both the intrinsic value (the contemporary value of the actual metal in the coin) and the nominal value (the contemporary purchasing value of the coin). This paper provides some basic information for understanding these standards and how they are calculated.

The Significance of Roman Imperial Coin Types, Klio 2009

Did Roman Imperial coin types have significant news or propaganda content, or were they generic? This article (focussing on the coinage of Trajan) argues that this depends on what part of the coinage is considered. The gold and bronze coins had substantial news content, but the silver coinage generally did not. This situation arose because two factors, sometimes conflicting, governed the choice of coin types in Trajan’s mint: first, the desire to select topical images; second, the need to maintain uninterrupted the mass-production of coins. As a result, the lower-volume portions of the coinage were adorned with more up-to-date types, and these were changed often; the higher-volume coinage on the other hand – – especially the silver denarii – – tended to employ generic and outdated types.

AN APPRAISAL OF THE NEWLY FOUND ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN OF OCTAVIAN AUGUSTUS

We report an unreported Roman Imperial silver trade coin of Octavian Augustus without legend on the obverse side, found somewhere in Tamil Nadu, India. The literary comparison is done with existing catalogs and books to establish the narrative that, this unreported coin has no legend on the obverse.