If you can explain more we might be able to
help more. (Feel free to PM or send me an email if you wish.)
What period of
Roman history?
We know a
fair bit about the structure of late
Roman bureaucracy, but it doesn't all translate to earlier periods. The structure of mints and Imperial treasuries differed at different times.
What kind of coinage - gold, silver or bronze?
The minting of precious metal coinage was sometimes under very different administration from that of base metal coinage - different mints, different authorities responsible - and sometimes not. It depends on the time period.
Also what exact
type of
counterfeits do you mean. The methodologies of detection would differ greatly. Silver gilded to look like gold? Bronze
plated to look like silver? Underweight or under-purity silver? Bronze made from stolen or
counterfeit dies, or bronze
cast in clay moulds?
At what stage of the economy are they tracking down the
counterfeits?
Many different officials may have
had responsibility.
Mint officials at or near the production end. Treasury officials for central storage and then distribution of coinage. Certain special army units if the problem surrounds army pay - which is how a
good chunk of the coinage entered circulation in the first place. Certain local city officials
had responsibility for coinage and
weights in markets and towns.
Shawn