Speaker
Jay Dharmadhikari
(Société française de numismatique)
Description
The minting of aurei at Antioch and Alexandria (Eastern diocese) has been the subject of few publications since the works of K. Pink (1931), C.H.V.Sutherland (1967), P. Bastien (1967) and G. Depeyrot (1995). More generally, the minting of gold coins in the third and fourth centuries has been the subject of several high quality studies (notably Bagnall/Bransbourg 2019) but no in-depth study has addressed the significance of gold coinage for these two eastern mints until the introduction of the solidus by Constantine.
The paper will present the gold coinage minted during the Tetrarchy in Eastern mints with special focus on a number of unpublished aurei from Antioch and Alexandria in the period 293-313/314.
Primary author
Jay Dharmadhikari
(Société française de numismatique)
