Overstriking and reminting in the Roman Principate: a general framework and some case studies in the provincial coinage

• Autores: Bernhard Woytek
• Localización: Revue belge de numismatique et de sigillographie, ISSN 0774-5885, Nº. 164, 2018, págs. 183-217
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper provides a general outline of the phenomena of overstriking and reminting in the Early and High Roman Empire, with a special emphasis on provincial coinage. Overstriking seems to have been rare in the provinces; it had several different purposes: e.g., the renewal of Roman provincial coins worn out through prolonged circulation; the conversion of foreign coins circulating in newly annexed territory into Roman ones; the sporadic (and locally circumscribed) obliteration of civic bronze coins produced under emperors who had fallen victim to damnatio memoriae