DOI article:
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]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.49247#0314
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In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest among researchers in the
coinage of Nerva (96-98).6 Another issue that our festschrift addresses is that of
coins with a titulature that refers to Divus Nerva; these coins were not issued until
the latter years of the reign of Trajan (98-117), which is to say in AD 112/113. Wc
know of posthumous references to the emperor from both imperial and provincial
coins. The article under discussion here addresses issues to do with the production
and chronology of these coins but also propaganda. Despite the magnificence of
Trajan’s reign, it is not well represented in historical sources.7 One problem lies in
establishing an exact chronology of certain facts. Some of the articles consider, on
the basis of the numismatic, historical, and epigraphic sources, the moniker given
to the emperor - that of Optimus. Another text of great interest is the short article
on the Hellenistic coin die on a Roman coin of Scepsis with the image of Trajan on
the obverse.
Issues in particular provinces could have been produced in the name of the
magistrates exercising authority. One of the book’s articles addresses the issues of
one of the magistrates of Mylasa, Caria, during the reign of Hadrian (117-138), this
being the magistrate M. Julius Damianus I. The author of this work investigated
particular coins from preceding years as well as the titles and titulature of the officers
in various centers and over different periods. Another article also addresses the
titulature of Roman provincial coinage, with the authors of this article taking us to
the regions of Pontus, Pamphylia, and Armenia. This chapter includes an extensive
catalogue of coins from particular centers and thus shows the similarities, as well
as the differences, in the forms during the age of the empire.
During the reign of Septimius Severus (193-211), coins were issued by forty-
two centers in Peloponnesus; during the age of Commodus (180-192), they were only
issued by five. The increase in the production of coins was supposed to have been
caused by the payments that were given to soldiers for taking part in the campaigns
in the East. It was the aim of the authors of this article to differentiate between the
mints that were in operation at the time, to distinguish the regional pattern, and to
give a more exact chronology.
Of course the issues that the book addresses concerning provincial coinage
would not be complete without iconographic analyses. Thus, one of the
book’s articles examines the representations on the coins of Apamea, Phrygia,
during the reigns of Septimius Severus, Macrinus (217-218), and Elagabalus
(218-222); their denominations are also examined. Images of Serapis, Isis, and
Harpokrates had already appeared on a few issues of various provincial cities.
6 ELKINS 2017.
7 BENNETT 1997(2015): 13-14.
310
In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest among researchers in the
coinage of Nerva (96-98).6 Another issue that our festschrift addresses is that of
coins with a titulature that refers to Divus Nerva; these coins were not issued until
the latter years of the reign of Trajan (98-117), which is to say in AD 112/113. Wc
know of posthumous references to the emperor from both imperial and provincial
coins. The article under discussion here addresses issues to do with the production
and chronology of these coins but also propaganda. Despite the magnificence of
Trajan’s reign, it is not well represented in historical sources.7 One problem lies in
establishing an exact chronology of certain facts. Some of the articles consider, on
the basis of the numismatic, historical, and epigraphic sources, the moniker given
to the emperor - that of Optimus. Another text of great interest is the short article
on the Hellenistic coin die on a Roman coin of Scepsis with the image of Trajan on
the obverse.
Issues in particular provinces could have been produced in the name of the
magistrates exercising authority. One of the book’s articles addresses the issues of
one of the magistrates of Mylasa, Caria, during the reign of Hadrian (117-138), this
being the magistrate M. Julius Damianus I. The author of this work investigated
particular coins from preceding years as well as the titles and titulature of the officers
in various centers and over different periods. Another article also addresses the
titulature of Roman provincial coinage, with the authors of this article taking us to
the regions of Pontus, Pamphylia, and Armenia. This chapter includes an extensive
catalogue of coins from particular centers and thus shows the similarities, as well
as the differences, in the forms during the age of the empire.
During the reign of Septimius Severus (193-211), coins were issued by forty-
two centers in Peloponnesus; during the age of Commodus (180-192), they were only
issued by five. The increase in the production of coins was supposed to have been
caused by the payments that were given to soldiers for taking part in the campaigns
in the East. It was the aim of the authors of this article to differentiate between the
mints that were in operation at the time, to distinguish the regional pattern, and to
give a more exact chronology.
Of course the issues that the book addresses concerning provincial coinage
would not be complete without iconographic analyses. Thus, one of the
book’s articles examines the representations on the coins of Apamea, Phrygia,
during the reigns of Septimius Severus, Macrinus (217-218), and Elagabalus
(218-222); their denominations are also examined. Images of Serapis, Isis, and
Harpokrates had already appeared on a few issues of various provincial cities.
6 ELKINS 2017.
7 BENNETT 1997(2015): 13-14.