Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne (11.2016)

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ZAPISKI NUMIZMATYCZNE

DOI: 11.12797/ZP. 11.2016.11.16
MICHEL AMANDRY, ANDRE W BURNETT, JEROME MAIRAT,
WILLIAM METCALF, LAURENT BRICAULT, MARYSE BLET-
LEMARQUAND
Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. 3. Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138).
Part 1: Catalogue. Part 2: General Introduction, lndexes and Plates, London:
British Museum Press; Paris: Bibliotheąue Nationale 2015, 1322 pages, 340
plates, 6 maps; ISBN 978-0-7141-1827-7
The present book is the third volume in the series Roman Provincial Coinage,
which is dedicated to the provincial minting activity, individual types, and
standards of coinage during the reigns of the emperors Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian
(AD 96-138). The volumes are published as part of the Roman Provincial Coinage
project, which is the result of the intemational collaboration of a number of scholars
and numismatists. The aim of the project is to create a comprehensive database
for Roman provincial coinage, which will serve as an aid to futurę research.1
The project was implemented in 1992, when the first volume in the series,
conceming the Julio-Claudian period, was published. Overall, ten yolumes,
up to the period of Diocletian’s reign, are to be published.2 The series is based
upon the principal collections (such as the Ashmolean Museum, the American
Numismatic Society, the Bibliotheąue Nationale de France, etc.) and relevant
publications.
Volume 3 is focused on the reigns of the emperors Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian
(AD 98-138) and may be of use in analyzing and seeking correlations between
provincial coinage and Nerva’s short-lived period of political activity, Trajan’s
campaigns, and Hadrian’s peregrinations. The territorial scope corresponds
with the Roman provinces, encompassing the regions of Cyrene, Crete, Achaia,
Macedonia, Thrace, Moesia, the northem coast of the Black Sea, Bithynia and
Pontus, Asia, Lycia and Pamphilia, Galatia and Cappadocia, Cilicia, Cyprus,
Syria, Judea, Arabia, and Egypt. The book consists of two parts: a catalogue and
a generał introduction with indexes, maps, and tables of coins. The arrangement

1 Roman Provincial Coinage online: http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/.
2 Published: the Julio-Claudian period (44 BC-AD 69); the Flavians (AD 69-96); Nerva-Hadrian
(AD 96-138); the Antonines (AD 138-192)-online; Gordian I-Gordian III. Province Asia (AD 238-244); Trajan
Decius-Uranius Antoninus (AD 249-254).

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