LATER ROMAN COINAGE
This website is dedicated to Roman coinage and history, particularly that of the third century AD. I hope to aim its contents at both collectors and students alike and, with a bit of luck, encourage others to take an interest in the hobby of collecting Roman coins. I know they are my generous hosts and I am biased but I would recommend that you visit the FORVM site and discussion board.
If you should spot any errors, fact or HTML, please e-mail me at r_j_b@talk21.com. Also please report any dead links.
CONTENTS
CARAUSIUS - My interest in the reign and coinage of Carausius has led me to begin to construct the following pages |
CARAUSIUS - "Marti Fautori" - Innovation or Copy? | VALERIAN II - An Error from the Gallic Mint | CONSTANTINE AUGUSTUS - An error in a copy of a Ticinum coin |
HANNIBALLIANUS REX - An obscure fourth century issue | SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS - Two Eastern mint denarii | A LAUREATE TACITUS BRONZE - The second recorded example of a rare coin of Tacitus |
ROMAN TEMPLES - A small collection of temples on Roman and Greek Imperial coins | THE GALLIC EMPIRE - The antoniniani of Postumus, Laelian, Marius, Victorinus and the Tetrici | POSTUMUS' BRONZE The sestertii and double sestertii of postumus |
MACRINUS AND DIADUMENIAN - A brief history | AN UNUSUAL CROWN FOR GALLIENUS A strange variation to the usual radiate crown | VALERIAN I (?) - A bronze coin from Pisidian Antioch |
GALLIC CONSULS - An introduction to officials not named on the coinage | HELP 1 - Can anybody help me and identify this Roman provincial coin? | HELP 2 - Can anybody help me with two more provincials? |
GALLIC EMPIRE CATALOGUE - A concordance between RIC and Elmer of the antoniniani of the Gallic Empire [Laelianus, Marius, Domitianus, Tetricus I & II] (Excel format) | THIRD CENTURY IMMITATIONS - A brief examination of the "Barbarous Radiate" phenomena | AURELIAN - A biography and discussion of numismatic themes during the reign of Aurelian |
BICHARACTAM PECUNIA - Inscriptional evidence for the name of a late Roman coin denomination | THE SUFFOLK HOARD - A blog detailng the cleaning of a third century Gallic coin hoard from Suffolk - Updated 10 Dec 05 | THE WAKEFIELD HOARD - A small unpublished denarius hoard found in the late 1990's |
"......CONS AVG" - A page dedicated to the coins of Gallienus from the Rome mint with the CONS AVG legend |
LINKS
Doug Smith A huge and very informative set of pages on ancient coins, well illustrated too. May soon disappear which would be a shame. | Mike Vosper A Norfolk based dealer in ancient and mediaeval coins with useful web links. | Numismatic Books If you like numismatic books Lee Toone's site is a must: news of books for sale and an index of on-line texts |
BANS The British Association of Numismatic Societies - find like minded people in your own area! | SNG The British volumes of the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum online, an on-going project! | Gordian III A comprehensive on-line collection |
Philip I & Family A comprehensive on-line collection | Gallienus A comprehensive on-line collection catalogued by Göbl number | Wildwinds database A huge illustrated database of ancient coins |
Forvm Coins American dealers in ancient coins with a very good discussion board. | Moushmov's Catalogue An on-line catalogue of the Balkan Greek Imperials | Antioch in Pisidia An outline history illustrated with coin types |
Coinage of Moesia Inferior and Thrace A site in German and English specialising in coins from these provinces | Ancientcoins.biz A site with much information on early Roman countermarks and more besides | Romancoins.info Another good site for information on early Imperial countermarks plus much more |
Roman Britain Guy de la Bedoyere's site covering a number of aspects of Roman life including a page on Carausius | Carausius and Allectus An informative page by Ken Elks on the coinage of the two British usurpers | The Perseus Project Ancient texts in translation |
Chard Manufacturing jewellers and coin dealers, this site is a mine of information from ancient coins to modern bullion issues | Probvs.net A large site dedicated to the coins of Probus | "Lord Best's gallery" A site that includes a good portrait gallery of Roman emperors and their families from sculpture in the round |
Severus Alexander The coins and history surrounding the last member of the family of Septimius Severus to rule the empire | Probus Another large site dedicated to the coins of Probus | Septimius Severus B Murphy's collection and site on denarii of the Severan dynasty |
Four Bad Years A good collection of bronzes combined with the history of the turbulent years 249-53AD | Gallienus' Zoo A site about the "animal" series of coins of Gallienus, very helpful for scarve varieties of commonly seen coins | Probus Maridvnvm's expanding site on the issues of Probus from the Lugdunum mint |
Philip Antioch A very good site studying the eastern antoninianus issues of Philip I and his family | Trajan Decius "Divi" coins A good discussion of the "Divi" series of coins of Trajan Decius | Jamesicus' London Mint site |
Gallic-Empire.com A site dedicated to the history and coins of the Gallic Empire | The Britannic coinage of Constantius A detailed site dealing with the British coinage in the aftermath of the Carausian revolt |
Latest update 27 January 2011
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