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Cypriot Coinage under Roman Rule
« on: November 27, 2019, 05:57:07 pm »
In 30 BC, after the death of Cleopatra and Marc Antony, Cyprus fell under the direct control of Octavian. But in 22 BC, Augustus ceded the island to the Senate to be governed by proconsuls of praetorian status. They were generally unpromising senators who rarely reached higher status after their service in Cyprus.

Cyprus became a modest province and was no more a place of great strategic importance in the Roman empire. This modesty is reflected by its coinage struck with intermissions from Augustus to Caracalla. As no colony was founded on the island, the Cypriote coinage is a provincial one and does not consist of different city coinages. Though relatively scarce, it isnonetheless interesting as it takes different forms: it was issued either by the league of Cypriote cities, the Koinon Kyprion, which of course was in charge of the imperial cult; or by the proconsuls, as a few issues make no reference to Cyprus on their legends, but have local designs and circulated only in Cyprus; or directly by the emperor or a member of his entourage, as other issues make no reference to Cyprus and have imperial designs, but are only found on the island

Augustan and Tiberian coins are in Latin, Claudian coins are bilingual, the subsequent coinage is in Greek: this development follows a general trend. Civic and provincial coinages,at least in the eastern part of the Empire, are the sign of the Hellenic cultural identity.Greek were no more their own masters, but they were proud to be Greek, and issuing coinage in Greek, with local types, was a way to assert their identity, which remained intact under the Roman dominium. It must also be stressed that there were few Roman citizens settled on the island

https://www.academia.edu/20171468/Cypriot_Coinage_under_Roman_Rule?email_work_card=title

 

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