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Provincial and Local Imitative Coins

Essential

Historia Numorum - Italy, NK Rutter, British Museum 2001

HNI, separately reviewed in the Comprehensive Catalogues section, is essential.

Burnett, Amandry, Ripollès, Roman Provincial Coinage I. From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius, 2 vols, 1992

RPC1, separately reviewed in the Comprehensive Catalogues section, is essential.

Coinage & Money Under the Roman Republic: Italy and the Mediterranean Economy, Michael Crawford, 1985

Provides valuable context to the Roman Republican coinage. If you are interested in provincial issues during the entire Republic (and not just from 49BC onwards), or in the parallel developments in Roman coinage and that of its neighbours from 200BC onwards, then this is essential reading. Its scope is Roman coinage as well as provincial and local coinage in the early Roman provinces, dependencies, allies and trade partners. It is a much more stimulating read than Crawford’s RRC. Illustrations in the text, though not of the highest quality.

Useful

The Coinage of the Roman World in the Late Republic; Burnett and
Crawford eds, 1985

These are the proceedings of a conference held in conjunction with the publication of Coinage and Money under the Roman Republic. Though their coverage is similar (the expanding Empire), the approach is different: CMRR provides an overview of the rise of Rome, and of the replacement of local by Roman coinages, whilst CRWLR takes the perspective of the "arrival" of Rome and subsequent impact on the coinage. It includes a province-by-province review of how coinage developed after the arrival of the Romans (except Italy – separately covered in Burnett’s 1982 article in AIIN). In the absence of RPC volume 0 for the period prior to 49BC this together with CMRR is the only substitute. Coverage includes South Germany, Spain, Sicily, Macedonia, Thrace (French), South Greece, Asia Minor, Syria (German), Egypt (Italian), Crete & Cyernaica, Africa.

SNG France VI,1: Italie, Etrurie - Calabre. Bibliotheque Nationale Dept. des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques 2003

Invaluable for its 141 pages of plates illustrating many coins not pictured in HNI.

Unofficial Imitations and Small Change under the Roman Republic, Michael Crawford, AIIN29, 1982

The only dedicated reference to imitative bronzes of the Republic, it is a provisional catalogue illustrated to a great extent from d'Ailly. Stannard (essays for Hersh & Local Coinages of Central Italy) and Knapp (in Coinage of the Roman World in the late Republic) also deal with imitative bronzes. The Kestner catalogue has a large number of unattributed imitative bronzes. Still much work to do in this area. Warren Esty has a nice site on imitative coins:

http://esty.ancients.info/imit/imitationrepAE.html

Silver Coins with the types of Aesillas the Quaestor, Robert Bauslaugh, ANS NS 22, 2000

The definitive die-study on these coins, also addressing the CAE.PR and SVVRA issues, which resolves the dilemma between early (90BC) and late (70-65BC) dating by coming to the radical conclusion that the Aesillas coins were probably struck over an extended period from 90-65bC.

Monetazione provinciale romana I Sicilia. Le emission tardo-repubblicane di Atratinus e la serie con ritratto do Octavianus Augustus e di Tiberius, Rodolfo Martini, 1991

Study of the Sicilian coins issued by Atratinus, plus other issues.

La Moneda Hispanica desde sus origines hasta el siglo V, Alvarez Burgos, Madrid 1987

Type catalogue of ancient Spanish coins, with line drawings. Completely superseded in my view by SNG BM Spain, but often cited and potentially cheaper than SNG BM Spain.

Livy and the date of the cistophoric tetradrachm, Kenneth Harl, 1991

Not yet reviewed

Les Monnaies de la Gaule Inspirees de Celles de la Republique ; S. Scheers, 1969

Not yet reviewed

Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der Roemischen Statthalter in Kleinasien, Gerd R. Stumpf

The definitive work on pro-consular citophori.

La circulation monetaire en Grece sous la protectorat de Rome, Adalberto Giovannini, AIIN 29, 1982

Monetary changes in Macedonia following the abolition of the monarchy and the imposition of Roman rule in 168BC.

The local coinages of central Italy in the late Roman Republic, Clive Stannard, 1994; Overstrikes and imitative coinages in central Italy in the late Republic, Clive Stannard in Essays Hersh 1998; Roman coins from the River Liri, W.E Metcalf NC 1974

Stannard’s studies address Italian small bronzes, based mainly on finds from the river Liri, south of Rome. These are a mixture of imitations of Roman bronze types, local Italian types and (most surprisingly and not yet understood) originals as well as imitations of colonial types from Panormus and Ebesus (Ibiza).

A group of Eraviscan denarii, by Robert Freeman in Essays Hersh 1998

Surveys some of the better known imitations of Republican coins.

The Roman Republican Coinage in Dacia and Geto-Dacian Coins of Roman Type, Maria Chitescu, BAR International Series 112, Oxford 1981

A survey of Dacian imitations of Republican denarii found in Romania. Useful for its many photographs and hoard descriptions but the analysis has been superseded by the material and classification on Phil Davis’ website.

http://rrimitations.ancients.info/