Roman Provincial Coinage

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Roman Provincial Coinage (RPC) is a coin catalog from the Roman Empire showing the provincial coins of the period 44 BC. To record until 296/7. So far, five out of ten volumes have been published.

The aim of the catalog is to show the Roman provincial coins of the time 44 BC. To record AD 296/7. The material basis is formed by the ten most important coin collections in the world, which are referred to in the project as core collections . The editors are Andrew Burnett from the British Museum and Michel Amandry from the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .

The coins are recorded in chronological and geographical order. So far, five out of ten volumes and several addenda have been published. Some addenda have been printed, others have been published online.

A coin database is made available on the project website.

Material basis

The RPC is based on the ten most important coin collections worldwide. These are the following (with abbreviations):

  • Berlin, State Museums (B)
  • Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum (C)
  • Copenhagen, Nationalmuseet (Cop)
  • Glasgow, Hunterian Museum (G)
  • Londen, British Museum (L)
  • Munich, State Coin Collection (Mu)
  • New York, American Numismatic Society (NY)
  • Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (O)
  • Paris, Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque nationale de France (P)
  • Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (V)

Band division

  1. Julian-Claudian period
  2. The Flavians
  3. Nerva - Hadrian
  4. The antonines
  5. The Severers
  6. Severus Alexander
  7. Gordian I. - Gordian III.
  8. Philip Arabs
  9. Decius - Trebonianus Gallus
  10. Aemilian - Diocletian

Volumes published so far

  • Andrew Burnett, Michel Amandry, Pere Pau Ripollès: Roman Provincial Coinage. Volume I: Julio-Claudian Period , 1992 (further editions 1998, 2006).
  • Andrew Burnett, Michel Amandry, Ian Carradice: Roman Provincial Coinage. Volume II: The Flavians , 1999.
  • Andrew Burnett, Michel Amandry, Jerome Mairat: Roman Provincial Coinage. Volume III: Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138) , 2015.
  • Marguerite Spoerri-Butcher: Roman Provincial Coinage. Volume VII, 1: De Gordien Ier à Gordien III (238-244 après J.-C.). Province d'Asie , 2006. - Review: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007-08-67
  • Antony Hostein, Jerome Mairat: Roman Provincial Coinage. Volume IX: From Trajan Decius to Uranius Antoninus (AD 249-254) , 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Corsten: Review of: M. Spoerri Butcher, Roman Provincial Coinage, Volume VII: de Gordien Ier à Gordien III (238-244 après J.-C.), 1. Province d'Asie , Paris, London 2006, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007-08-67 .
  2. ↑ Adapted from http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/project/

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