Conveners
S43. ROME 9. ROMAN IMPERIAL AND PROVINCIAL COINAGE
- Mariusz Mielczarek (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences)
The paper discusses intervention on ancient coins, mostly struck on the territory of the Roman State now preserved in the Ossoliński National Institute in Wrocław and the National Museum in Warsaw. My focus are marks of deliberate alterations observed on the surface of coins – types of intervention, the possibilities and limits for their identification and interpretation. I propose to examine...
Although typological analysis forms the basis of much numismatic study, it is well recognised that types themselves are modern constructs that are a useful unit of analysis, but whose relationship to the minting process is arbitrary, since different scholars define types in different ways. This paper asks whether the concept of a type might actually have existed in antiquity, and if so, how...
The paper examines the reflection of the mythical origins of Thrace in some interesting monetary issues of Hadrianopolis. These include coins from the times of Gordian III with the image of Orestes, Iphigenia, and Pylades – one of only a few images of Orestes in the Roman provincial coinage. This legendary founder of Hadrianopolis (originally Orestias) is shown with his sister and cousin...
Der Beitrag behandelt römische Münzfunde aus der frühesten Phase des Legionslagers in Novae (Bulgarien). Als solches konzentriert sie sich auf julisch-claudische Prägungen aus der Zeit bis zur Regierung Neros, die mit dem Ende der Stationierung der Legio VIII Augusta in Novae zusammenfällt. Der Vergleich von veröffentlichten Funden und neueren Exemplaren aus der Forschung des Zentrums für...
