Exergue
 | Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. EXERGUE, or EXERGUM- the lowest part of a coin, divided from the rest by a horizontal line. The word signifies and outwork (or, as the French numismatists interpret it, hors d'œuvre) in relation to the type and to the legend. It is usually found on the reverse; seldom on the side of the head. In coins of families, and those of the higher Empire, the exergual inscriptions marks either Consular dates, or Senatoria authority, or more frequently, what is of more importance, it directly applies to the subject typified on the reverse. In the mintages of the lower Empire, letters generally occupty the exergue which generally serve to indicate the cities in which they were struck, and in both both instances, these words or letters form a straight line, whilst the rest of the legend is placed circularily. See below:
This coin had "CONS" in its exergue. This coin is therefore from the mint of Constantinople. -From the collection of Wolfgang336 |
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Exergue
| Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. EXERGUE, or EXERGUM- the lowest part of a coin, divided from the rest by a horizontal line. The word signifies an outwork in relation to the type and to the legend. It is usually found on the reverse; seldom on the side of the head and the words or letters form a straight line, while the rest of the legend is placed circularly. In coins of Roman Republic and Early Empire, the exergual inscriptions mark either Consular dates, or Senatorial authority (S C), or more frequently, what is of more importance, it directly applies to the subject typified on the reverse. In the mintages of the late Roman and Byzantine periods, letters generally occupy the exergue which generally serve to indicate the cities in which they were struck. See below:
This coin has "CONS" in its exergue. This coin is therefore from the mint of Constantinople. - From the collection of Wolfgang336 |
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