A proconsular bronze and the end of Atarneus: Atinius, not Asinius

• Autores: Claude Eilers
• Localización: Revue belge de numismatique et de sigillographie, ISSN 0774-5885, Nº. 170, 2024, págs. 343-351
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The names of Roman governors did not regularly appear on the local coinages of provincial cities before the second half of the first century BCE. However, a bronze coin from the Mysian city of Atarneus, which has long been interpreted as showing that a C. Asinius was proconsul of Asia, seems to present an example of early presence of Roman officials on coinage issued in the Roman provinces. A new specimen of this coin reveals that the named proconsul was not an Asinius, but the C. Atinius (Labeo Macerio) who was governor in 122/121 BCE, already attested on cistophori and gold staters of Ephesus. This represents the first occurrence of the name of a Roman official on the bronze coina?e of a city in the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.