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S41. ROME 7. ROMAN IMPERIAL COINAGE 4
- Kyrylo Myzgin (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)
Facing portraits of the emperor are often discussed in the art of late antiquity, but such discussions rarely focus on imperial coinage, where the facing portraits of Gallic emperor Postumus are mark an important step . This paper will argue that these coins represent a decisive step in the development of the facingimperial busts. Facing portraits on the reverse of Roman city coinage of the...
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...
The paper presents an unpublished cast contorniate, discovered during the urban excavations in the area of Argiletum and now preserved in the Capitoline Coin Cabinet along with other 47 specimens also awaiting publication.
The first part focuses on the contorniate, its material and the production technique, which suggests that this object had a magical use. In the second part, the place of...
