Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne (3/4.1999)

TOM III/IV
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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