DOI article:
Lichocka, Barbara: Coinage in Cyprus in the reign of Hadrian
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21230#0167
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KRAKÓW 1999
BARBARA OCHOCKA
Research Centrę for Mediterranean Archaeology
Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw
COINAGE IN CYPRUS
IN THE REIGN OF HADRIAN
During the period between the Koinon Kyprion coins of Trajan and
the bronze issues with the portraits of Antoninus Pius (obverse) and
Marcus Aurelius Caesar (reverse), local Cypriot mints remained closed
(Table 1). The Roman imperial coinage in Cyprus had started under
Augustus, and Hadrian was not the first who stopped it. However, the
interruptions that had taken place under Caligula and Domitian were
significantly shorter.
It was not exceptional for the coin production in a mint to be sus-
pended; nor was it exceptional for the coinage of a whole provfnce.'
1 For the disappearance of the mints in Lycia, see P.R. Frankę, W. Leschhorn, A.U. Stylów,
SyUoge Nummorum Graecorum, Sammlung H. von Aułock, Index (Berlin 1981), PI. 9; for other
provinces, Pis. 1-8, 10-12; T.B.Jones, "A Numismatic Riddle: the So-called Greek Imperials",
ProcAmPhilSoc 107,4 (1963) [further cited:Jones], p. 310, Figs.1-3; K Butcher, RomanProvin-
cial Coins: An Introduction to the Greek Imperials (London 1988) [further cited: Butcher], pp. 88-89.
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KRAKÓW 1999
BARBARA OCHOCKA
Research Centrę for Mediterranean Archaeology
Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw
COINAGE IN CYPRUS
IN THE REIGN OF HADRIAN
During the period between the Koinon Kyprion coins of Trajan and
the bronze issues with the portraits of Antoninus Pius (obverse) and
Marcus Aurelius Caesar (reverse), local Cypriot mints remained closed
(Table 1). The Roman imperial coinage in Cyprus had started under
Augustus, and Hadrian was not the first who stopped it. However, the
interruptions that had taken place under Caligula and Domitian were
significantly shorter.
It was not exceptional for the coin production in a mint to be sus-
pended; nor was it exceptional for the coinage of a whole provfnce.'
1 For the disappearance of the mints in Lycia, see P.R. Frankę, W. Leschhorn, A.U. Stylów,
SyUoge Nummorum Graecorum, Sammlung H. von Aułock, Index (Berlin 1981), PI. 9; for other
provinces, Pis. 1-8, 10-12; T.B.Jones, "A Numismatic Riddle: the So-called Greek Imperials",
ProcAmPhilSoc 107,4 (1963) [further cited:Jones], p. 310, Figs.1-3; K Butcher, RomanProvin-
cial Coins: An Introduction to the Greek Imperials (London 1988) [further cited: Butcher], pp. 88-89.
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