Conveners
S39. ROME 5. ROMAN IMPERIAL COINAGE 2
- Kyrylo Myzgin (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)
Over the past decade, efforts have intensified to demonstrate that Roman authorities deliberately targeted selected messages to specific population groups (socially or geographically defined). In our paper, we would like to present the results of a re-evaluation of these attempts (above all, those published by Elkins, Maunders and Ellithorpe, thus concerning coins of various emperors with...
Immediately after the acclamation of a Roman emperor, the mint of Rome issued coins in the name of the new princeps. Within these first issues, coin portraits were sometimes minted which resembled more closely the portrait of the deceased emperor than that of the new one.
This resemblance can be explained by the fact that those in charge at the mint were not yet familiar with the portrait of...
It was suspected that a surprising number of originally holed or otherwise damaged aurei have been “repaired” over the last century and have subsequently entered the market undisclosed. A survey of the Coin Archives digital database of auction results of the last ~20 years was performed identifying 453 damaged aurei (scratches, nicks, or holes). Eight were subsequently “repaired” and...
