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Zajac, Barbara Karolina: [Rezension von: Arnaud Suspène, Vincent Drost, Andrew Burnett, Laurent Bricault, Rome et les provinces. Monnayage et histoire. Mélanges offerts à Michel Amandry]
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collection of the American Numismatic Society; others can be found in the Cabinet
des Medailles de Paris. While the article on this subject in our book is one of the
first studies of Witschonke’s collection, which was made up of about 3,700 coins,
the next chapter consists in an interesting analysis and comparison of the production
of the issues of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in various centers of the East.
One of the articles in our book describes metallographic research with regard to
the reform that resulted in the use of orichalcum. Taking into account the influence
of imperial coinage on Gaulish coinage, this article also describes the research of
this kind conducted on a variety of issues, including those of the CONTVOTOS,
ATECTORI, and VERCA types. The influence of monetary reform on the bronze
coinage of particular centers in the age of Augustus is the subject of another chapter.
The book also includes the results of metallographic studies of gold coins issued by
Galba, Vitellius, and Vespasian in the Western provinces during the years 68-69.
A number of articles address problems concerning the exact chronology of
particular issues. And so, the silver coins of Juba II (25 BC-AD 23), the ruler of
Mauretania, are another subject covered in the book. Only a few of the coins of this
ruler have a precise chronology. Most of them are coins without a date, identified
on the basis of particular iconographic and stylistic features. The article considers
a number of different series with the image of Ptolemy, Juba H’s son, and a lion, as
well as their possible chronological ordering.
One of the problems highlighted by the editors of Roman Provincial Coinage
consisted in the correct attribution and establishment of the chronology of pseudo-
autonomous issues.5 Some of the coins, however, may have certain elements that
enable us to give the issue a more precise date or to attribute them correctly. We
can see one example here in the coins that were probably issued in Laodicea ad
Mare during the age of Constans. The author of an article on this subject analyzes
particular issues and indicates their attribution and chronology. With regard to the
topic of pseudo-autonomous coins, another article is on the possible identification
of a portrait of Diva Paulina, the wife of Maximinus Thrax (235-238), issued in
Tralles, Lydia. The empress did not live very long, nor was she particularly well-
-known; hence, the fact that her presence is so scanty in many sources.
Provincial coinage is characterized by its large variety. Artifacts in the form of
coins from “pieds de sanglier” issued during the age of Augustus in the Colony of
Nemausus are the subject of yet another article. The questions related to these very
specific issues focus on their purpose, recipients, and production.
309
Ibidem-. 41-42; JOHNSTON 1985: 90.
collection of the American Numismatic Society; others can be found in the Cabinet
des Medailles de Paris. While the article on this subject in our book is one of the
first studies of Witschonke’s collection, which was made up of about 3,700 coins,
the next chapter consists in an interesting analysis and comparison of the production
of the issues of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in various centers of the East.
One of the articles in our book describes metallographic research with regard to
the reform that resulted in the use of orichalcum. Taking into account the influence
of imperial coinage on Gaulish coinage, this article also describes the research of
this kind conducted on a variety of issues, including those of the CONTVOTOS,
ATECTORI, and VERCA types. The influence of monetary reform on the bronze
coinage of particular centers in the age of Augustus is the subject of another chapter.
The book also includes the results of metallographic studies of gold coins issued by
Galba, Vitellius, and Vespasian in the Western provinces during the years 68-69.
A number of articles address problems concerning the exact chronology of
particular issues. And so, the silver coins of Juba II (25 BC-AD 23), the ruler of
Mauretania, are another subject covered in the book. Only a few of the coins of this
ruler have a precise chronology. Most of them are coins without a date, identified
on the basis of particular iconographic and stylistic features. The article considers
a number of different series with the image of Ptolemy, Juba H’s son, and a lion, as
well as their possible chronological ordering.
One of the problems highlighted by the editors of Roman Provincial Coinage
consisted in the correct attribution and establishment of the chronology of pseudo-
autonomous issues.5 Some of the coins, however, may have certain elements that
enable us to give the issue a more precise date or to attribute them correctly. We
can see one example here in the coins that were probably issued in Laodicea ad
Mare during the age of Constans. The author of an article on this subject analyzes
particular issues and indicates their attribution and chronology. With regard to the
topic of pseudo-autonomous coins, another article is on the possible identification
of a portrait of Diva Paulina, the wife of Maximinus Thrax (235-238), issued in
Tralles, Lydia. The empress did not live very long, nor was she particularly well-
-known; hence, the fact that her presence is so scanty in many sources.
Provincial coinage is characterized by its large variety. Artifacts in the form of
coins from “pieds de sanglier” issued during the age of Augustus in the Colony of
Nemausus are the subject of yet another article. The questions related to these very
specific issues focus on their purpose, recipients, and production.
309
Ibidem-. 41-42; JOHNSTON 1985: 90.