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DOI article:Zająk, Barbara: [Rezension von: Michel Amandry, Andrew Burnett, Roman provincial coinage. Vol. 3. Nerva, Trajan ans Hadrian, Pt. 2. General introduction, indexes and plates]
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41338#0346
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activity in the provinces increased, and under Trajan and Hadrian morę silver
coinage was produced for the provinces than in the period of the Flavian dynasty.
However, in Trajan’s reign greater ąuantities of coins were struck in Syria and
Cappadocia than during Hadrian’s rule. In the years 96-138, coins were issued
by roughly 300 centres. The increase in the minting output could be explained
by military campaigns or emperors’ visits, but scholars are uncertain about
the specific links, as correlations between individual events do not always seem to
be in agreement. It has been suggested that production may have been in response
to provincial demands. The introduction ends with some key conclusions focused
on the continuation of the Flavian system, centralization and the subseąuent change
during Hadrian’s reign, but also on the absence of some conclusive explanation
as regards a few problems indicated in the present study.
This brief generał account of the essential aspects of the Roman provincial
coinage in this period is complete with maps showing the provincial boundaries
and minting centres, indexes of the cities, the names of members of the imperial
families, the titles and legends used, countermarks, and plates with images
of coins. The catalogue contains around 6,570 types of provincial coins, with most
of them presented in tables of very good ąuality.
This insightful publication is a very valuable study on the Roman provincial
coinage during the reigns of Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian. The information on
the minting activity in this period has usually been fragmentary and scattered
over yarious joumals or presented in generał comprehensive studies. Freąuently,
certain details were incomplete and rudimentary. The present volume is the first
complete study of this subject in the above-named period. It is based on a variety
of intemational and private collections, complemented with a bibliography and
catalogue, and featuring the most essential body of information. It also provides
a critical view of many assumptions, opinions, and theories. The volume’s
catalogue is very elear and easy to use. It may prove very helpful and useful
to the futurę studies of the economy and structure of the territories in ąuestion.
Some of the problems are still in need of morę in-depth analysis and better
clarification, and at times sources representing just one category may be insufficient.
The current publication is the fruit of many scholars’ hard work and is an important
and yaluable study that is necessary for further research.
44
activity in the provinces increased, and under Trajan and Hadrian morę silver
coinage was produced for the provinces than in the period of the Flavian dynasty.
However, in Trajan’s reign greater ąuantities of coins were struck in Syria and
Cappadocia than during Hadrian’s rule. In the years 96-138, coins were issued
by roughly 300 centres. The increase in the minting output could be explained
by military campaigns or emperors’ visits, but scholars are uncertain about
the specific links, as correlations between individual events do not always seem to
be in agreement. It has been suggested that production may have been in response
to provincial demands. The introduction ends with some key conclusions focused
on the continuation of the Flavian system, centralization and the subseąuent change
during Hadrian’s reign, but also on the absence of some conclusive explanation
as regards a few problems indicated in the present study.
This brief generał account of the essential aspects of the Roman provincial
coinage in this period is complete with maps showing the provincial boundaries
and minting centres, indexes of the cities, the names of members of the imperial
families, the titles and legends used, countermarks, and plates with images
of coins. The catalogue contains around 6,570 types of provincial coins, with most
of them presented in tables of very good ąuality.
This insightful publication is a very valuable study on the Roman provincial
coinage during the reigns of Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian. The information on
the minting activity in this period has usually been fragmentary and scattered
over yarious joumals or presented in generał comprehensive studies. Freąuently,
certain details were incomplete and rudimentary. The present volume is the first
complete study of this subject in the above-named period. It is based on a variety
of intemational and private collections, complemented with a bibliography and
catalogue, and featuring the most essential body of information. It also provides
a critical view of many assumptions, opinions, and theories. The volume’s
catalogue is very elear and easy to use. It may prove very helpful and useful
to the futurę studies of the economy and structure of the territories in ąuestion.
Some of the problems are still in need of morę in-depth analysis and better
clarification, and at times sources representing just one category may be insufficient.
The current publication is the fruit of many scholars’ hard work and is an important
and yaluable study that is necessary for further research.