![]() This view has been standard for many years, for the basic purpose of currency must plainly be economic and many studies have resulted from this position, for the early empire and onwards. ![]() He gives the impression that they regard the primary purpose of that coinage as having been imperial propaganda, and propaganda moreover in the pejorative sense made infamous by Goebbels and he must be unaware that few numismatists of the present day - or, indeed, of some decades past - would wish to deny that the primary purpose of that (as of virtually all other) coinage was an economic one. In an authoritative and valuable article on the Aequitas type of Galba3, A.Wallace-Hadrill has credited the contemporary numismatic study of the imperial coinage with a view from which it (or at any rate the majority of its participants) would certainly wish to be dissociated. The 10-volume first edition, comprised of 13 books (Volumes 4 and 5 required multiple books), spans 460 years of Roman minting from the time of the Battle of Actium (31 BC) to Late Antiquity in 491 AD. Jones nearly thirty years ago1, and accorded a reply by the present writer soon afterwards 2, might thereafter have subsided into a reasonable and reasoned quietude. Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC) is a British catalog on coins issued under the Roman Empire. KreitzerSheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. It might have been supposed that the argument about the purpose of Roman imperial coin types, thrown into a dismissive prominence by A.H.M. Roman Empire Imperial Coinage Severus Alexander AE Sestertius Rome 222-235 AD Condition: - Please carefully review enlarged photos to make your own grading and bidding determination Time left: 5d 23h Sunday, 06:47 PM Starting bid: US 49.95 0 bids Place bid Add to Watchlist Ships from United States Shipping: US 5.50Standard Shipping. Striking New Images: Roman Imperial Coinage and the New Testament World by Larry J. SUTHERLAND THE PURPOSE OF ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN TYPES During the first half of this century the view came to be widely held by numismatists, and by many Roman historians too, that the types chosen for the Roman.
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