- The Collaborative Numismatics Project
  Explore Our Website And Find Joy In The History, Numismatics, Art, Mythology, And Geography Of Coins!!! NumisWiki Is An Enormous Unique Resource Including Hundreds Of Books And Thousands Of Articles Online!!! The Column On The Left Includes Our "Best of NumisWiki" Menu If You Are New To Collecting - Start With Ancient Coin Collecting 101 NumisWiki Includes The Encyclopedia of Roman Coins and Historia Nummorum If You Have Written A Numismatic Article - Please Add It To NumisWiki All Blue Text On The Website Is Linked - Keep Clicking To ENDLESSLY EXPLORE!!! Please Visit Our Shop And Find A Coin You Love Today!!!

× Resources Home
Home
New Articles
Most Popular
Recent Changes
Current Projects
Admin Discussions
Guidelines
How to
zoom.asp
Index Of All Titles


BEST OF

AEQVITI
Aes Formatum
Aes Rude
The Age of Gallienus
Alexander Tetradrachms
Ancient Coin Collecting 101
Ancient Coin Prices 101
Ancient Coin Dates
Ancient Coin Lesson Plans
Ancient Coins & Modern Fakes
Ancient Counterfeits
Ancient Glass
Ancient Metal Arrowheads
Ancient Oil Lamps
Ancient Pottery
Ancient Weapons
Ancient Wages and Prices
Ancient Weights and Scales
Anonymous Follis
Anonymous Class A Folles
Antioch Officinae
Aphlaston
Armenian Numismatics Page
Augustus - Facing Portrait
Brockage
Bronze Disease
Byzantine
Byzantine Denominations
A Cabinet of Greek Coins
Caesarean and Actian Eras
Campgates of Constantine
Carausius
A Case of Counterfeits
Byzantine Christian Themes
Clashed Dies
Codewords
Coins of Pontius Pilate
Conditions of Manufacture
Corinth Coins and Cults
Countermarked in Late Antiquity
Danubian Celts
Damnatio Coinage
Damnatio Memoriae
Denomination
Denarii of Otho
Diameter 101
Die Alignment 101
Dictionary of Roman Coins
Doug Smith's Ancient Coins
Draco
Edict on Prices
ERIC
ERIC - Rarity Tables
Etruscan Alphabet
The Evolving Ancient Coin Market
EQVITI
Fel Temp Reparatio
Fertility Pregnancy and Childbirth
Fibula
Flavian
Fourree
Friend or Foe
The Gallic Empire
Gallienus Zoo
Greek Alphabet
Greek Coins
Greek Dates
Greek Coin Denominations
Greek Mythology Link
Greek Numismatic Dictionary
Hellenistic Names & their Meanings
Hasmoneans
Hasmonean Dynasty
Helvetica's ID Help Page
The Hexastyle Temple of Caligula
Historia Numorum
Holy Land Antiquities
Horse Harnesses
Illustrated Ancient Coin Glossary
Important Collection Auctions
Islamic Rulers and Dynasties
Julian II: The Beard and the Bull
Julius Caesar - The Funeral Speech
Koson
Kushan Coins
Later Roman Coinage
Latin Plurals
Latin Pronunciation
Legend
Library of Ancient Coinage
Life in Ancient Rome
List of Kings of Judea
Medusa Coins
Maps of the Ancient World
Military Belts
Military Belts
Mint Marks
Monogram
Museum Collections Available Online
Nabataea
Nabataean Alphabet
Nabataean Numerals
The [Not] Cuirassed Elephant
Not in RIC
Numismatic Bulgarian
Numismatic Excellence Award
Numismatic French
Numismatic German
Numismatic Italian
Numismatic Spanish
Parthian Coins
Patina 101
Paleo-Hebrew Alphabet
Paleo-Hebrew Script Styles
People in the Bible Who Issued Coins
Imperial Mints of Philip the Arab
Phoenician Alphabet
Pi-Style Athens Tetradrachms
Pricing and Grading Roman Coins
Reading Judean Coins
Representations of Alexander the Great
Roman Coin Attribution 101
Roman Coin Legends and Inscriptions
Roman Keys
Roman Locks
Roman Militaria
Roman Military Belts
Roman Mints
Roman Names
romancoin.info
Rome and China
Sasanian
Satyrs and Nymphs
Scarabs
Serdi Celts
Serrated
Siglos
The Sign that Changed the World
Silver Content of Parthian Drachms
Star of Bethlehem Coins
Statuary Coins
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum
Syracusian Folles
Taras Drachms with Owl Left
The Temple Tax
The Temple Tax Hoard
Test Cut
Travels of Paul
Tribute Penny
Tribute Penny Debate Continued (2015)
Tribute Penny Debate Revisited (2006)
Tyrian Shekels
Uncleaned Ancient Coins 101
Vabalathus
Venus Cloacina
What I Like About Ancient Coins
Who was Trajan Decius
Widow's Mite
XXI

   View Menu
 

Italica



Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate.
Italica was a city of Hispania Baetica (Andalusia), and a Roman municipium, situate on the river Baetis (Guadalquiver): it is now called Sevilla la Vieja (Old Seville). An inscription of Gruter 's refers to this place under the title of COLONIA ITALICENSIS IN PROV BAETICA. It was in the neighbourhood of Hispalis, the native country of Trajan, Hadrian, and Theodosius I. In the year V.C. 654, when Scipio Africanus, after bringing the affairs of Rome with the Carthaginians in Spain to a pacific settlement, comtemplated his return to Italy, he allocated all the Italian soldiers, disabled by wounds and fatigue, in one town, which, from their native country, he called Italica. This is what Appianus Alexandrinus states in his Bellum Hispan. p. 463.

The town had afterwards the title of municipium bestowed upon it; but as the number of citizens became greatly diminished by the wars, it seems to have been re-peopled with legionary veterans sent thither by Augustus. Hence its coins, dedicated to Augustus, Livia, Drusus, and Germanicus, bear the inscription MVN ITAL or MVNIC or MVNICIP ITALIC.

It here deserves the remark that the privilege of coinage granted to the Spanish minicipium by Augustus, is noted on all its coins by the abbreviated word PER or PERM AVG. Permissu Augusti.

The following are among the types of this Roman municipium:

Altar: On a second brass struck by the Italicenses, in memory of Augustus, (whose radiated head appears on its obverse with legend of DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER) an altar is represented on which is the word PROVIDENT. The rest of the legend is MVN ITAL PERM AVG. Municipium Italica, or Italicense, Permissu Augusti.

After the example of many cities who, after the apotheosis of Augustus, built temples to his honour, the people of this municipium placed on their coins a representation of the altar, which they erected to the Providence of their benefactor - as if in his deified capacity he still, as whilst living, happily administered the affairs and watched over the interests of the Roman world.

A similar reverse appears on a second brass of the same colony, struck in honour of Tiberius, whith the sole difference of the words PROVIDENTIAE AUGUSTI being engraved on the side, instead of at the foot, of the altar. The providence which the coin is meant to commererate is, in the opinion of Vaillant, not that of Tiberius, but of his imperial predeccessor DIVVS AVGVTVS PATER: the august Father, whom by the ceremony of consecration Rome had placed among her Gods!

Woman seated
, holding in her right hand a patera, in her left the hasta. This type appears on the reverse of a rare and elegant coin dedicated to Julia (livia), called in the legend AVGVSTA. The obverse presents a female head (that of Livia herslef) surrounded by the inscription of MVNIC ITALICA PERM AVG. [The seated female figure seems to be the statue of Livia, which is often found represented on coins struck by order of the Senate, in reference to statues raised to her honour. The colony of Italica, mindful of the privileges bestowed upon them by Augustus, and amonst others the right of coinage, placed the statue here depicted, in token of their congratulation, tha Livia his wife had been adopted into the Julia family.] Vaillant, i. 51.

Legionary Eagle and Vexillum
, a second brass, noticed as elegent and very rare by Vaillant (i. 92), bears on its obverse DRVSVS CAESAR TI AVG F with the bare head of Drusus. And on its reverse appear the aquila et vexillum of a legion. [The Druumviri who struck the above coin in honour of Drusus obviously designed by this type to indicate the military origin of this municipium. There is the same reverse and same legend (MVNIC ITALIC PER AVG) on a second brass of Germanicus. Thus the veterans of Italica pay a compliment to each of the two young Caesars: to Drusus, indeed, because, as son of Tiberius by natural right, he stood apparent heir to the empire; and to Germanicus, because being adopted by Tiberius at the desire of Augustus, he became the associate of Drusus].

There are pieces which on one side bear the name Italica, and on the other that of Bilbilis. This circumstance is noticed in Hardouin 's Oper. Selec. M. Hennin also mentions it in the nomenclature of his Manuel, as indicating that an alliance subsisted between the two cities.

Itia
, a family of unknown rank; its denarii of a single type; rare, but devoid of both numimatic and historical interest. Winged head of Minerva: X. Rev. L ITIus. The Diocuri on horseback. In the exergue ROMA.

Itinera Hadriani
. Hadrian 's travels. See Rasche. IT. 1016.

View whole page from the Dictionary Of Roman Coins
All coins are guaranteed for eternity