The end of the Unciae at the Roman mint
@profyarrow livyarrow.org ANS 2015.20.2029 ANS 2015.20.2924
ANS 2015.20.2926 Aims o Identify known specimens and new types o Consequences of revised chronology o Patterns in metrology o Prosopography and historical contexts o Connect to broader pattern of small bronzes Watch for… A Working Hypothesis
Roman moneyers wanted to be SEEN addressing POPULAR concerns Visible “Creativity” Letter control-marks c. 104-96 BCE Crises associated with Saturninus
Social War
Number, symbol, letter control-marks ANS 1950.103.39 c. 92-79 BCE
Collapse of Cinnan Regime and Sulla’s Dictatorship
Sporadic control-marking c. 78-57 BCE
Cf. Witschonke, R. "The use of die marks on Roman Republican coinage." RBN 92, no. 67 (2012) 130s Unciae Patterns of Bronze Minting at Rome
Uncial Standard 110s Unciae Molinari, C. M. “Rearrangement of the denarius-series in the years of the First Sicilian Slave Revolt, the legacy of Attalus III and the Sardinian rebellion.” Nomismata 8 A last flourishing (2016). (and a few semunciae) Lockyear, K. “Mind the Gap! Roman Republican coin hoards from Italy and Iberia at the end of the second century BC” Numismatic Chronicle (2018).
Semuncial Standard 130s Unciae
Uncial Standard ANS 2015.20.2029
Molinari, C. M. “Rearrangement of the denarius-series in the years of the First Sicilian Slave Revolt, the legacy of Attalus III and the Sardinian rebellion.” Nomismata 8 (2016). Known Populists?
Curiatius Metellus Locking up consuls? Sourcing Grain from Disputing the price grain? Thessaly as Aedile?
Rev. of ANS 1941.131.65
Garnsey, Peter D. A. and Rathbone, Dominic W.. “The background to the grain law of Gaius Gracchus.” Journal of Roman Studies 75 (1985). a convenient weight? two photos, one coin Uncial Standard
110s Unciae
BnF REP-8252
Lockyear, K. “Mind the Gap! Roman Republican coin hoards from Italy and Iberia at the end of the second century BC” Numismatic Chronicle (2018). Cipius (5)
RBW 1113
BnF REP-8252
“I am not asleep for EVERYONE” [wink-wink-nudge-nudge, just for my wife’s lover]
Syme, Ronald. "Senators, Tribes and Towns." Historia 13.1 (1964): 105-25. Fonteius (3)
BnF REP-11494
RBW 1115
RBW 958 Nerva (1) UNIQUE
RBW 1126
ANS 1944.100.599 McCabe Collection Nerva RBW 1126 Philippus (2) “…he often played the demagogue…”
More ‘light’ quadrans A Unified College? (6)
McCabe Collection Uncial Standard
110s Unciae Uncial Standard
A last flourishing (and a few semunciae)
Semuncial Standard Lockyear, K. “Mind the Gap! Roman Republican coin hoards from Italy and Iberia at the end of the second century BC” Numismatic Chronicle (2018). Uncial Standard ALL ROMA on uncia
A last flourishing (and a few semunciae)
ALL oak wreaths accept Herennius Semuncial Standard
Three photos, one coin
And a lost second specimen Cerco’s crown?
RBW 1141 RBW 1167 Unique? ANS 2015.20.2926 ANS 2015.20.2924 Tubulus (44, 3) Herennius (17, 1)
Visible “Creativity” Letter control-marks c. 104-96 BCE Crises associated with Saturninus
Social War
Number, symbol, letter control-marks ANS 1950.103.39 c. 92-79 BCE
Collapse of Cinnan Regime and Sulla’s Dictatorship
Sporadic control-marking c. 78-57 BCE
Cf. Witschonke, R. "The use of die marks on Roman Republican coinage." RBN 92, no. 67 (2012)