In the short three years of Carus, Carinus, and Numerian their titles on coins underwent several changes. With this post I announce a site on their coins and how they are dated, "Roman Coins of the Emperors Carus, Carinus, and Numerian, 282-285."
http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Carus/
Hello,
Nice website! But it would be great not to take into account as bibliographic reference the sole
Roman Imperial Coinage V.2 (1933), which was already
obsolete when published : it is well known that P.H.
Webb did only "develop" H. Cohen's Description historique...
vol. 6 (1886!) without studying directly the coinage from the institutional
collections it was kept in.
So for your web-readers, some more recent bibliography would be needed.
Could be mentioned, published since
RIC V.2 and 1933 :
- General
history of
Carus and sons' reign (and datings): Altmayer 2014.
- Corpus of the coinage :
Pink NZ 1963 (you can forget, for the medallions,
Pink Centennial publ.
ANS 1958, as attributions to mints are often erroneous)
- Corpus of
Lyon mint :
Bastien 1976 (and Supplement I, 1989 and Supplement II, 2003)
- Corpus of
Ticinum mint :
Estiot RN 2017
- Corpus of
Siscia mint :
Estiot NZ 2017
- On the coinage of the usurper Julianus "of Panonnia":
Estiot RN 2010
- Publication of the
part of the huge La
Venèra
hoard concerning these reigns (7.782 coins) :
Gricourt 2000.
Among other publications...
Yes indeed, these are publications in native languages of these strange European tribes,
German and
French, but no need to understand their dialects to read a corpus or tables of emissions...
